Library
SW 9th Ave
Eastbound
Library/SW 9th Avenue is a unidirectional sidewalk level station on the northside side of Yamhill Street between SW 9th and 10th Avenues. It is the first stop in the Free Rail Zone (called Fareless Square when it also applied to buses until 2009) The platform is just a sidewalk with a tactile warning strip, a few station signs and information panels and TVMs. There are no further amenities but a parking garage along the platform that overhangs the sidewalk provides some shelter for waiting passengers. The stop provides connections to the Portland Streetcar on 10th and 11th Avenues. The stop was the original originating station of the MAX when it opened in 1986 to Cleveland Avenue in Gresham until it was extended in 1997 to Kings Hill/Southwest Salmon and then through the West Hills out to Hillsboro in 1998. A turn around loop with two tracks arriving from Galleria/SW 10th Ave exists south along SW 11th Avenue. This loop was last used in general service by the Yellow Line from its opening in 2004 until its 2009 reroute onto the new tracks along the Portland Transit Mall.
Photos 1-8 taken on 5 July, 2006 and 9-16 on 16 October, 2011
