Editing MAX Light Rail (section)

===Discontinued services===
{{Main|Fareless Square|Portland Vintage Trolley}}

From the MAX system's opening until 2012, riding trains within [[Fareless Square]], which was known as the Free Rail Zone from 2010 to 2012, was free of charge. Fareless Square included all of downtown and, starting in 2001, part of the [[Lloyd District, Portland, Oregon|Lloyd District]]. The 37-year-old fare-free zone was discontinued on September 1, 2012, as part of system-wide cost-cutting measures. As part of the same budget cuts, TriMet discontinued its zonal fares and moved to a flat-fare system. Zones had been in place since 1986; higher fares were charged for longer journeys across four paid zones.<ref name=oreg-2012aug31/><ref name="going-to-the-max"/>

The MAX Mall Shuttle operated on weekday afternoons from when it was introduced on September 14, 2009, until 2011.<ref>{{cite web|date=August 17, 2009|title=MAX Light Rail Service Begins on the Portland Mall|publisher=City of Portland's Office of Neighborhood Involvement|url=http://gettingaroundportland.org/ONI/index.cfm?c=29385&a=259162|access-date=October 10, 2009}}</ref> It acted as a supplement to the light rail service provided on the Portland Transit Mall by the Green and Yellow lines.<ref name="mall stops">{{cite web|title=Portland Transit Mall Bus Stops and MAX Stations from Union Station to PSU|year=2009|publisher=TriMet|url=https://trimet.org/portlandmall/stopsandstations.htm|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100613002419/http://trimet.org/portlandmall/stopsandstations.htm|archive-date=June 13, 2010|access-date=May 13, 2014}}</ref> The Mall Shuttle operated between Union Station and [[Portland State University]] every 30 minutes from noon until 5:30{{nbsp}}p.m.<ref name="mall stops"/> TriMet discontinued this supplementary shuttle service on June 5, 2011.<ref>{{cite news |last=Rose |first=Joseph |title=TriMet will make several seasonal bus line adjustments Sunday |newspaper=The Oregonian |date=June 3, 2011 |url=http://blog.oregonlive.com/commuting/2011/06/trimet_will_make_several_seaso.html |access-date=May 13, 2014 |archive-date=October 7, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121007082437/http://blog.oregonlive.com/commuting/2011/06/trimet_will_make_several_seaso.html |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name=maxmallshuttle2011>{{cite web|title=MAX Mall Shuttle |year=2011 |url=https://trimet.org/schedules/mallshuttle.htm |publisher=TriMet |access-date=May 13, 2014 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140513094806/http://trimet.org/schedules/mallshuttle.htm |archive-date=May 13, 2014 }}</ref> Along with bus services, the mall continues to be served by two MAX lines in each direction—Green and Yellow lines northbound and Green and Orange lines southbound—which provide a combined average headway of 7.5 minutes in each direction at most times.

The [[Portland Vintage Trolley]] operated on the MAX system on most weekends from 1991 until 2014, serving the same stops. This service used 1991-built replicas of 1904 Portland streetcars. Originally, the Vintage Trolley service followed a section of the original MAX line between the Library and Galleria stations and [[Lloyd Center]]. In September 2009, the service moved to the newly opened MAX alignment along the transit mall, running between Union Station to Portland State University,<ref name="ptj2010-1"/><ref name="VTsched2012">{{cite web |title=Vintage Trolley 2012 Schedule on the Portland Mall |publisher=Portland Vintage Trolley website |url=http://myplace.frontier.com/~trolley503/VTSchedule.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130201170503/http://myplace.frontier.com/~trolley503/VTSchedule.html |archive-date=February 1, 2013 |access-date=February 6, 2014}}</ref> and remained on this route in subsequent seasons. In 2011, the service was reduced to seven or eight Sundays per year,<ref name="taut-apr2011">''[[Tramways & Urban Transit]]'', April 2011, p. 152.  LRTA Publishing Ltd.</ref> and in July 2014 it was discontinued entirely and the two remaining faux-vintage cars were sold to a group planning [[Delmar Loop Trolley|a streetcar line]] in [[St. Louis]].<ref name="vt-ceased">{{cite web|title=Vintage Trolley Has Ceased Operation|url=http://myplace.frontier.com/~trolley503/VTSchedule.html|publisher=Portland Vintage Trolley website|access-date=January 2, 2015|date=September 2014|archive-date=February 1, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130201170503/http://myplace.frontier.com/~trolley503/VTSchedule.html|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="taut-nov2014">{{cite news|title=Portland double-track is brought into use|work=[[Tramways & Urban Transit]]|publisher=LRTA Publishing|date=November 2014|page=454}}</ref>