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Re: GWB Station images. |
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Posted by Joe on Wed May 17 19:46:17 2017, in response to Re: GWB Station images., posted by r17-6599 on Wed May 17 19:14:15 2017. In 1968, five years after the bus station opened, I lived near 54th Street in West New York. My parents lived on Marble Hill. Most of the time, I used Blvd East buses to access the PABT and rode the #1 train north. My attempts to use the George Washington Bridge Bus Station tended to cost extra time, mostly because of the long headways on scenic River Road. I explored several top-of-the-hill combinations, partly to get a sense of what happened to the old PSCT trolley right of ways.--- Over the years since then, I occasionally looked in at the GWB Bus Station. To cut down on the wind that battered passengers waiting for buses on the island platforms, the PA asked the architect to make modifications to the butterfly wings above the third deck. Also, closed circle television was installed, so passengers could loiter standing in the waiting room and see their bus arrive at the platform. Services gradually left the vast 2nd floor (now to be leased out to retail stores, if they can be coaxed to rent), and the sole plus of the dingy terminal was the bust of Othmar Ammann. A few years ago, I assembled a list of routes, destinations, and frequency. I don't have numbers, but I think passenger traffic dwindled for several reasons: the choice of turnpike expresses directly to PABT; not getting a seat on the A train, and the grime of the pedestrian tunnel to 175th Street station. It would be interesting to learn the Manhattan destinations of the bus riders. Maybe it gets traffic by connecting Washington Heights with other communities of factories and Hispanic heritage in New Jersey. --- Halfway between Broadway and Fort Washington Avenue, there was a driveway with stops for long-distance coaches. I think they also had a small waiting room. |
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