Hop Fastpass is a contactless smart card for public transit fare payment on most transit modes in the Portland, Oregon, metropolitan area including MAX Light Rail, WES commuter rail, Portland Streetcar, The Vine, and all TriMet and C-TRAN buses. An initial release to the general public began on July 5, 2017, with the official launch on July 17. The program is managed by TriMet.
The standard adult Hop Fastpass card
A Hop card reader inside a TriMet bus
The Hop card readers at C-Tran "The Vine" stations were originally mounted on freestanding posts at stops. Now, the card readers are on board the Vine buses. MAX passengers still must tap their cards at a reader on the platform before boarding.
The Metropolitan Area Express (MAX) is a light rail system serving the Portland metropolitan area in the U.S. state of Oregon. Owned and operated by TriMet, it consists of five lines connecting the six sections of Portland; the communities of Beaverton, Clackamas, Gresham, Hillsboro, Milwaukie, and Oak Grove; and Portland International Airport to Portland City Center. Trains run seven days a week with headways of between 30 minutes off-peak and three minutes during rush hours. In 2019, MAX had an average daily ridership of 120,900, or 38.8 million annually. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, which impacted public transit use globally, annual ridership plummeted, with only 14.8 million riders recorded in 2021.
Top: A westbound Type 2 Blue Line train crossing the Steel Bridge Bottom: A MAX train and a Portland Streetcar tram traversing Tilikum Crossing
Image: Ad free MAX train of two Type 2 cars on Steel Bridge in 2015
An original Bombardier light rail train entering the 11th Avenue turnaround loop in downtown Portland in 1987
A train stopped at Mall/Southwest 4th Avenue station in 2009, when it was served by the Blue, Red, and Yellow lines
