Leaving Moda Center: Four MAX Lines In, Two Streets Out, No Clock

Reaching Moda Center is one of the better documented arrivals in the West. Leaving it is one of the thinner departures, and both halves sit on the same three pages.

Moda Center publishes four MAX lines, six bus lines and two TriMet fares for reaching the Rose Quarter, and no closing hour for any of its five garages, read September 2026.

What follows is the published record of the hour after a Portland event: the two streets a car can collect from, the four MAX lines whose last departure belongs to TriMet, the garages that open on a clock and close on none, and the re-entry rule that decides whether a walk out to the car can be undone.

The Rose Quarter names ten transit routes into Moda Center and no hour out of it

Four MAX lines reach two Rose Quarter stations and six bus lines stop at the Rose Quarter Transit Center, according to the Rose Quarter, read September 2026. TriMet charges $5.60 for an adult day pass and $2.80 for a youth or honored citizen day pass. No last departure and no garage closing hour appear.

Every way out below comes from a Rose Quarter page read in September 2026, sorted by what the campus attaches to it once an event ends.

Way out of the Rose Quarter	What the Rose Quarter publishes	What the Rose Quarter does not publish	Who holds the missing figure
MAX red, blue and green lines at the Rose Quarter Transit Center	Three lines at one named station, with TriMet fares of $5.60 adult day pass and $2.80 youth or honored citizen day pass.	Last departure, evening span and post event service.	TriMet, which operates the lines and publishes the timetable.
MAX yellow line at the Interstate/Rose Quarter station	One line at a station on the western side of the Rose Quarter campus.	Last departure, and any walking time from the arena doors.	TriMet for the timetable, and nobody in the venue record for the walk.
Six TriMet bus lines at the Rose Quarter Transit Center	Lines 4-Fessenden, 8-Jackson Park/NE 15th, 35-Macadam Greeley, 44-Capitol Hwy/Mocks Crest, 77-Broadway/Halsey and 85-Swan Island.	Last trip of the night on any of the six lines.	TriMet, which runs all six.
Rideshare on NE Multnomah St and NE Wheeler Ave	Two street names, right outside the east entry, with Lyft named as an official rideshare partner.	Opening time after an event, fare and any staging order.	Nobody: the Rose Quarter names the streets and the sponsor, and no hour.
A car in one of the five Rose Quarter garages and lots	1,038 spaces in the Garden Garage, 350 in the Annex, 554 in the West Broadway, 533 in the East Broadway and 92 in the Benton Surface Lot, opening approximately 2 hours before an event.	Closing hour, parking rate and the street address of any garage.	The Rose Quarter for the hour it never printed, and JustPark and Ticketmaster for their own checkout prices.
Off-site lots at NE 7th and Multnomah	More than 1,700 spaces in the Lloyd District, named as off-site parking by the Rose Quarter.	Opening hour, closing hour and rate.	The operators of those lots, none of which the Rose Quarter names.

Ten named transit routes and two named streets carry a crowd away from 1 N Center Court St, and the venue attaches a time to none of them (Lot Opens calculation, September 2026).

Five named Rose Quarter garages open approximately two hours early and close on no published hour

The Garden Garage holds 1,038 spaces, the Annex Garage 350, the West Broadway Garage 554, the East Broadway Garage 533 and the Benton Surface Lot 92, according to the Rose Quarter, read September 2026. Those five add up to 2,567 spaces on the campus itself (Lot Opens calculation, September 2026).

All five open on one instruction, which is that the Rose Quarter parking garages open approximately two hours prior to an event. The word the campus chose is approximately, which makes the figure a guide rather than a promise. No closing hour follows it on the three Rose Quarter pages read for this guide, so the car carries no published deadline once the buzzer sounds.

Capacity is documented in more detail than price. Accessible spaces are counted garage by garage, with 24 at the Garden Garage, 9 at the Annex, 12 at the West Broadway, 14 at the East Broadway and 3 at the Benton Surface Lot, which is 62 accessible spaces across the five (Lot Opens calculation, September 2026). The campus also publishes 28 EV charging stations, free to a driver who paid for parking, courtesy of Pacific Office Automation.

Names are published without addresses. Off-site lots holding more than 1,700 spaces sit at NE 7th and Multnomah in the Lloyd District, according to the Rose Quarter, read September 2026, and no street address appears for any of the campus five, only the names, so a name is what a group has to remember on the way back.

A published closing hour is what turns a garage into a deadline, and the San Francisco arena that publishes a parking rate as well as its garage is one of only four venues in this bank of twenty-seven that prints a rate at all. Moda Center hands its driver a capacity instead of either figure.

One rule does reach the walk to the car. There is no re-entry permitted for events at the Rose Quarter, read September 2026, and the sentence covers the campus, Moda Center and the Veterans Memorial Coliseum alike. Stepping out to the Garden Garage to drop a coat ends the night rather than pausing it.

NE Multnomah St and NE Wheeler Ave are the only two streets the Rose Quarter names for a ride home

Rideshare locations are along NE Multnomah St. and NE Wheeler Ave., right outside the east entry, according to the Rose Quarter, read September 2026. Both names come out of one sentence in the campus record, and no third street appears anywhere beside them.

Lyft is named as an official rideshare partner of the Rose Quarter, read September 2026. A partnership is a sponsorship rather than a fare, so no price, no wait and no queue position follows from it, and the campus publishes none of those three for either street.

The two streets carry no clock either. No opening time for collection appears on the three pages read for this guide, which is a different record from a venue that separates arrival curbs from collection corners and dates them. The Seattle stadium that publishes four addresses for arrival and two corners for collection sorts its own list by direction, while the Rose Quarter publishes rideshare locations without splitting them in two.

For a group the consequence is a naming problem rather than a timing one. A party that picks NE Multnomah St or NE Wheeler Ave before the event has settled the only variable the venue left open.

Four MAX lines answer to TriMet, and the Rose Quarter timetables none of them

The Rose Quarter Transit Center sits on the red, blue and green lines, and the Interstate/Rose Quarter station, on the western side of the Rose Quarter campus, serves the yellow line, according to the Rose Quarter, read September 2026. Six bus lines stop at the Transit Center: 4-Fessenden, 8-Jackson Park/NE 15th, 35-Macadam Greeley, 44-Capitol Hwy/Mocks Crest, 77-Broadway/Halsey and 85-Swan Island.

Fares come from the agency and appear on the venue page. TriMet charges $5.60 for an adult day pass and $2.80 for a youth or honored citizen day pass, listed by the Rose Quarter on its transportation page, read September 2026. Those two amounts are the only dollars the campus publishes for an event night, and neither of them is a parking price.

The timetable is the missing half of that record. TriMet operates the MAX and the six bus lines and holds their schedules, while the Rose Quarter publishes no last departure and no post event service on the three pages read for this guide, read September 2026. Nothing in those pages describes a platform, a wait or a line for a train, so a departing rider plans from the agency schedule and from nothing the venue wrote.

The Seattle campus that names its rail ride and leaves the timetable with the operator reads the same way: the venue names the service and the agency times it. A Portland group that wants a number for the ride home pulls it from TriMet before the event starts, because the arena record ends at the fare.

The Steel Bridge belongs to the Rose Quarter driving directions and to no published walking route

The Steel Bridge appears inside the Rose Quarter driving directions, as an instruction to proceed over the Steel Bridge, read September 2026. No walking route crosses it on those pages, and no pedestrian distance or crossing time appears next to it.

That distinction decides a plan. A group staying downtown that reads the bridge as a published way home has turned a driving instruction into a footpath, and the campus attaches no walking figure to it in either direction.

What the Rose Quarter does publish for a person on foot is short: the east entry with its two rideshare streets, the Rose Quarter Transit Center on the red, blue and green lines, and the Interstate/Rose Quarter station on the western side of the campus, read September 2026. Three named points on the map, and no measured walk between any two of them.

What each published way out of 1 N Center Court St costs, and who holds the clock it runs on

The table below puts the price and the clock side by side for every exit the Rose Quarter names, read September 2026. Where a cell says a figure is not published, that is an absence in the venue record rather than a service that does not exist.

Exit from Moda Center	Published cost and its issuer	Clock the issuer attaches	Limitation	Best for
MAX red, blue or green line from the Rose Quarter Transit Center	$5.60 adult day pass and $2.80 youth or honored citizen day pass, charged by TriMet	None from the Rose Quarter, and TriMet publishes the timetable	Three lines from one named station, with no last departure on the venue pages	Two adults heading downtown or east with no car
MAX yellow line from the Interstate/Rose Quarter station	$5.60 adult day pass and $2.80 youth or honored citizen day pass, charged by TriMet	None from the Rose Quarter, and TriMet publishes the timetable	The station sits on the western side of the campus, a different walk from the east entry	A rider heading north along Interstate Ave
TriMet bus from the Rose Quarter Transit Center	$5.60 adult day pass and $2.80 youth or honored citizen day pass, charged by TriMet	None from the Rose Quarter, and TriMet publishes each line span	Six lines only, from 4-Fessenden to 85-Swan Island	An address that no MAX line reaches
Rideshare on NE Multnomah St or NE Wheeler Ave	No fare published by the Rose Quarter, and Lyft is named as official rideshare partner, which is a sponsorship	No opening time after an event on any page read for this guide	Two streets, both right outside the east entry, with no accessible collection point named separately	A party leaving together, or with a child or luggage
A car in the Garden, Annex, West Broadway or East Broadway Garage, or the Benton Surface Lot	No rate published by the Rose Quarter, and JustPark and Ticketmaster quote their own prices at checkout	Opening approximately two hours before an event, and no closing hour	2,567 spaces across the five, with no street address published for any (Lot Opens calculation, September 2026)	A group that wants to leave on its own schedule
Off-site lots at NE 7th and Multnomah in the Lloyd District	No rate published by the Rose Quarter	No opening or closing hour published by the Rose Quarter	More than 1,700 spaces, given as a floor rather than a count	A late arrival once the campus garages fill

Three scenarios settle the choice. For two adults staying downtown without a car, the MAX wins at $5.60 an adult day pass, which is $11.20 for the pair on the way home (Lot Opens calculation, September 2026), because that fare is the only published price in the whole exit, with the caveat that the last departure has to come off the TriMet timetable beforehand. For four people with a driver, the car in the Garden Garage wins, because a garage with no published closing hour sets no deadline to beat, with the caveat that the price arrives from JustPark or Ticketmaster and belongs to them. For a party splitting up, or travelling with anyone who cannot manage a long walk, the curb on NE Wheeler Ave wins, because it is one of only two streets the Rose Quarter names for a ride home at all. An adult leaving with one youth pays $8.40 on the train against a rideshare price nobody publishes (Lot Opens calculation, September 2026).

Two Rose Quarter clocks run before a Blazers tip-off and none runs after the final buzzer

General doors for regular season Trail Blazers games open 75 minutes prior to tip-off, and general doors for regular season Winterhawks games open 60 minutes prior to puck-drop, according to Moda Center, read September 2026. Both sentences say regular season, so a playoff date carries neither number, and the two door clocks stand 15 minutes apart (Lot Opens calculation, September 2026). A concert carries a third figure instead: doors typically open one hour before the scheduled start time, in the venue’s own wording.

Set those against the garage instruction and the evening has a documented front and a blank back. A 7:00 p.m. Trail Blazers tip-off puts the garages open at about 5:00 p.m. and the doors open at 5:45 p.m. (Lot Opens calculation, September 2026), which is two published clocks before the game and none after it.

A 7:30 p.m. Winterhawks puck-drop takes the same shape one step later, with the garages open at about 5:30 p.m. and the doors at 6:30 p.m. (Lot Opens calculation, September 2026). An 8:00 p.m. concert runs on the softest rung of the same ladder, garages at about 6:00 p.m. and doors typically at 7:00 p.m. (Lot Opens calculation, September 2026), because the venue writes typically and sends the exact time by email. What a show that empties at 10:00 p.m. meets is nothing at all, since the campus publishes no figure counted from the end of an event.

Counted across the West, that silence has company. Twenty of the twenty-seven venues in the Lot Opens bank publish some figure counted from the end of an event, or 74% of them (Lot Opens calculation, September 2026), and the seven that do not are Sphere, SoFi Stadium, BMO Stadium, Moda Center, T-Mobile Park, Delta Center and Mortgage Matchup Center. The Inglewood arena with two arrival clocks and none for the street and the stadium that prices the ride home without ever timing it are two of the other six.

Six things worth agreeing on before the Moda Center lights come up

• Pick the street before the buzzer. Rideshare locations are along NE Multnomah St. and NE Wheeler Ave., right outside the east entry, according to the Rose Quarter, read September 2026, and the campus names no third street for a pickup.
• Screenshot the TriMet timetable at home. Four MAX lines and six bus lines appear in the Rose Quarter record with no last departure attached, read September 2026, while TriMet operates all ten routes and holds every schedule.
• Treat a trip to the car as final. There is no re-entry permitted for events at the Rose Quarter, read September 2026, so a coat dropped in the East Broadway Garage costs the rest of the event.
• Learn the garage by name, not by address. Capacities of 1,038, 350, 554, 533 and 92 spaces cover the Garden, Annex, West Broadway and East Broadway garages and the Benton Surface Lot, with no street address for any of them, according to the Rose Quarter, read September 2026.
• Charge while the event runs. 28 EV charging stations serve the Rose Quarter garages and charging costs nothing for a driver who paid for parking, courtesy of Pacific Office Automation, according to the Rose Quarter, read September 2026.
• Settle who pays for parking before anyone books. The Rose Quarter publishes no parking rate and sends buyers to a JustPark widget or a Ticketmaster checkout, read September 2026, so weigh that quote against the Los Angeles ballpark that prints its own parking rate on its own page before deciding what is normal.

Five assumptions that break on the way out of a Rose Quarter event

Counting the exit from the hour printed on the ticket starts the clock in the wrong place, because a 7:00 p.m. Trail Blazers tip-off has a published door time of 5:45 p.m. and no published end. Reading the missing closing hour as a promise that the garages stay open mistakes an absence in the record for a guarantee at the gate. Treating a JustPark widget price or a Ticketmaster checkout price as the venue rate moves an operator quote onto the Rose Quarter, which publishes no rate of its own, read September 2026. Walking out to the Annex Garage mid event to drop a bag runs into the campus rule that there is no re-entry permitted for events at the Rose Quarter. Planning a late train off the arena page assumes a last departure those pages do not contain, and TriMet holds it instead.

Provenance, so the chain stays checkable. The five garage capacities, the 24, 9, 12, 14 and 3 accessible spaces, the 28 EV charging stations, the approximately two hour garage opening, the 75 minute and 60 minute door clocks, the two rideshare streets, the four MAX lines at two stations, the six bus lines, the re-entry rule and the Steel Bridge driving instruction all come from the Rose Quarter parking, venue guide and directions and transportation pages, read September 2026. The $5.60 and $2.80 fares belong to TriMet and are listed by the Rose Quarter. Counts across the West come from the Lot Opens reading of each building’s own pages.

The figures in this guide were verified in September 2026 against the sources named in each section. Venue windows change by event, transit spans and headways change with each service change, and rail timetables change by season; check the issuer’s page before you travel.

What Blazers and Winterhawks ticket holders ask after the final buzzer

Six answers drawn from the Rose Quarter parking, venue guide and directions and transportation pages, read September 2026, covering the two rideshare streets, the five garages, the four MAX lines and the two figures TriMet charges.

Moda Center put a price on the train and left the walk to the car blank

A campus that names ten transit routes, two pickup streets, 2,567 of its own parking spaces and a $5.60 adult day pass has told a visitor almost everything about the approach and almost nothing about the hour after the buzzer. The two figures that decide that hour, a garage closing time and a last departure, sit on a page the Rose Quarter has not written and in a timetable TriMet already publishes, so the work moves to the ticket holder before the event rather than after it.

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Moda Center documents the arrival in ten routes and two fares, and hands the departure to TriMet and to the driver.