Tigard Transit Center

Tigard Transit Center is a bus transfer center and train station in Tigard, Oregon, United States. Operated by regional public transit authority TriMet, the facility opened in 1988 as a bus transit center, and a station for service from the Westside Express Service commuter rail line was added in 2009. The station is the middle stop of the five-station line.HistoryTigard Transit Center was designed by Skidmore, Owings & Merrill and opened for buses in 1988, served by about 200 bus trips per day. The design received a commendation from the local chapter of the American Institute of Architects in 1988. The site already had a Greyhound bus station (located in an adjacent storefront), which remained there after the transit center's opening but moved to a location on Main Street in the 1990s.Plans for a rail connection started as early as 1991 when a proposal for a light rail line was studied, with the transit center as its southern terminus. As of 2009, this line has not been built, but it is still planned with studies to begin as early as 2013.Plans for the commuter rail service between Beaverton and Wilsonville began as early as 1996. In 2001, the Federal Transit Administration authorized the project, and in 2004 it approved the project. Construction began in October 2006. The line is the first suburb-to-suburb commuter rail line in the United States, and the first commuter rail line in Oregon.