FTA awards grant for TOD plan along proposed TriMet light-rail route

(Source: Progressive Railroading 08/05/2020)

The Federal Transit Administration (FTA) awarded the SW Equity Coalition a $1.2 million grant to fund transit-oriented development (TOD) along a proposed light-rail route in Portland, Oregon’s Southwest Corridor. 

The grant was awarded as part of the FTA’s Pilot Program for Transit-Oriented Development Planning. 

The funding will allow the coalition to take actions to address displacement pressures in building the planned extension, Portland, Oregon’s Metro Council officials said in press release.

The Southwest Corridor light-rail extension would add 11 miles to Tri-County Metropolitan Transportation District of Oregon’s MAX system from Portland State University to Tigard and Bridgeport Village in Tualatin by 2027.

Metro Council was also awarded an FTA grant for this project in 2016. That grant allowed the council to explore the impacts of the proposed light rail and other investments in the corridor.