:Overlook Park station

{{see also|MAX Yellow Line#History}}

In 1999, local residents and business leaders urged Portland's regional transit agency, TriMet, to extend the Metropolitan Area Express (MAX) through North Portland.{{cite news |last=Oliver |first=Gordon |title=New light-rail plan rises from the ashes |newspaper=The Oregonian |date=March 16, 1999 |page=1}}{{cite news |last=Stewart |first=Bill |title=Tri-Met involvement urged in north light-rail line |newspaper=The Oregonian |date=March 25, 1999 |page=B3}} The extension, approved in June of that year, came to be referred to as the Interstate MAX.{{cite news |last=Oliver |first=Gordon |title=Council revives Interstate Avenue MAX line plan |newspaper=The Oregonian |date=June 17, 1999 |page=B3}} In February 2000, the Portland City Council authorized the relocation of Overlook Park station's planned northbound platform closer to the main entrance of Kaiser Permanente's medical offices, despite hospital officials expressing a preference to shift both platforms closer to benefit patients.{{cite news |last=Stewart |first=Bill |title=Interstate MAX altered |newspaper=The Oregonian |date=February 24, 2000 |page=D2}} Construction of the Interstate MAX began in February 2001 near the Rose Quarter.{{cite news |last=Stewart |first=Bill |title=Interstate MAX work will begin with Monday ceremony |newspaper=The Oregonian |date=February 16, 2001 |page=D3}} Overlook Park station opened on May 1, 2004, along with Yellow Line service.{{cite news |last=Leeson |first=Fred |title=TriMet gives crowd ride on its newest MAX run |newspaper=The Oregonian |date=February 20, 2004 |page=D1}}{{cite news |last=Leeson |first=Fred |title=The Yellow Line: Open for business |newspaper=The Oregonian |date=April 25, 2004 |page=B5}}

Overlook Park station is situated at-grade along the median of North Interstate Avenue, between the intersections of Fremont Street and Overlook Boulevard. It is the first of three stations going northbound serving the Overlook neighborhood;{{cite web |url=https://www.portlandoregon.gov/civic/article/58610 |title=Overlook Neighborhood Boundary |publisher=City of Portland |date=March 5, 2019 |access-date=September 20, 2019}} the other two are {{stn|North Prescott Street}} and {{stn|North Killingsworth Street}}. The station features two staggered side platforms, which are accessible via crosswalks at the ends of each platform. Its platforms consist of shelters, benches, garbage cans, ticket vending machines, and passenger information displays.{{cite web |url=https://trimet.org/ride/stop.html?action=entry&Loc=11505 |title=Stop ID 11505 – Overlook Park MAX Station, Southbound |publisher=TriMet |access-date=April 30, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190430155739/https://trimet.org/ride/stop.html%3Faction%3Dentry%26Loc%3D11505 |archive-date=April 30, 2019 |url-status=live |df=mdy-all }}{{cite web |url=https://trimet.org/ride/stop.html?stop_id=11510 |title=Stop ID 11510 – Overlook Park MAX Station, Northbound |publisher=TriMet |access-date=April 30, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190430155748/https://trimet.org/ride/stop.html%3Fstop_id%3D11510 |archive-date=April 30, 2019 |url-status=live |df=mdy-all }} Reserved bike lockers nearby may be rented in six-month increments.{{cite web |url=https://trimet.org/bikes/lockersavailable.htm |title=Reserved Bike Lockers |publisher=TriMet |access-date=May 2, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190417212247/http://trimet.org/bikes/lockersavailable.htm |archive-date=April 17, 2019 |url-status=live |df=mdy-all }}

TriMet commissioned artist Fernanda D'Agostino to design the station's public artwork, which pays homage to nature, healing, and the Overlook neighborhood's Polish roots.{{cite news |last=Row |first=D. K. |title=Art review: Light rail, light art |newspaper=The Oregonian |date=April 25, 2004 |page=L1}} Her work, entitled Icons of Transformation, comprises two light towers and windscreens installed on the station platforms.{{cite web |url=https://trimet.org/publicart/pdf/yellowline-guide.pdf |last=Priester |first=Mary |title=Interstate MAX Public Art Guide |publisher=TriMet |year=2004 |pages=22–23 |access-date=May 2, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190302173041/http://trimet.org/publicart/pdf/yellowline-guide.pdf |archive-date=March 2, 2019 |url-status=live |df=mdy-all }} The light towers, modeled after Polish wayside shrines, feature portraits of community members overlaid with images of nature. The windscreen art glass suggests "the transforming power of nature".{{cite web |url=https://trimet.org/publicart/yellowline.htm |title=Public Art on MAX Yellow Line |publisher=TriMet |access-date=May 2, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190302153204/http://trimet.org/publicart/yellowline.htm |archive-date=March 2, 2019 |url-status=live |df=mdy-all }} A community map by artist Margaret Eccles depicts a shaft of wheat with roots interweaving a street grid and adorned with glass-block medical drawings derived from ancient Islamic, Chinese, and Medieval European cultures. The artist intended for this piece to convey a symbol of good health and longevity.

Overlook Park station is situated between the {{stn|Albina/Mississippi}} and North Prescott Street stations on the Interstate MAX segment of MAX Light Rail. It is eighth station southbound on the Yellow Line, which runs from the station northbound to the Expo Center and southbound through the Rose Quarter and the Portland Transit Mall to the PSU South stations at Portland State University. At Portland Union Station, most southbound Yellow Line trains operate through into the Orange Line and continue to Southeast Park Avenue station in Milwaukie.{{cite web |url=https://trimet.org/schedules/maxyellowline.htm |title=MAX Yellow Line Map and Schedules |publisher=TriMet |access-date=February 21, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181211060335/https://trimet.org/schedules/maxyellowline.htm |archive-date=December 11, 2018}} Trains serve the station for approximately 21 hours per day every day of the week. The headway between trains measures 15 minutes during most of the day and up to 30 minutes in the early mornings and late evenings.{{cite web |url=https://trimet.org/schedules/frequentservice.htm |title=Frequent Service |publisher=TriMet |access-date=August 6, 2018 |archive-date=January 9, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190109065214/https://trimet.org/schedules/frequentservice.htm}} From the station, trains take 17 minutes to reach Expo Center station and 10 minutes to reach Union Station/Northwest 5th & Glisan station. Overlook Park station averaged 557 riders per day on weekdays in fall 2018.

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• {{cite web |url=https://trimet.org/go/cgi-bin/cstops.pl?action=entry&Loc=11505 |title=Stop ID 11505 – Overlook Park MAX Station, Southbound |publisher=TriMet}}
• {{cite web |url=https://trimet.org/go/cgi-bin/cstops.pl?action=entry&Loc=11510 |title=Stop ID 11510 – Overlook Park MAX Station, Northbound |publisher=TriMet}}

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