George Washington Bridge Bus Station
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The George Washington Bridge Bus Station is a commuter bus terminal located at the Manhattan end of the George Washington Bridge in Washington Heights. The station is built over the Trans-Manhattan Expressway (Interstate 95) between 178th and 179th Streets and Fort Washington and Wadsworth Avenues and features direct bus ramps on and off the upper level of the bridge.
- Commuter bus platforms are located on an upper level. Service is provided by New Jersey Transit, Red & Tan Lines and several other bus operators. As of 2005, there is also long distance bus service to Florida.
- Local buses stop at a lower level and on the streets outside the station. Local service includes:
- M98 (inside the station)
- M4, M5, M100 and BX7 (outside the station)
- BX3, BX11, BX13, BX36 and BX35 (on streets nearby). The BX13 services Yankee Stadium
- There is a passageway to the 175th Street station of the IND Eighth Avenue Line of the New York City Subway.
- The first floor has shops and a waiting area.
The bus station is owned and operated by the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey. On a typical weekday, about 15,000 passengers on some 730 buses use the bus station. The building was the first work built in the United States by the Italian engineer-architect Pier Luigi Nervi and opened on January 17, 1963.
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External links
- GW Bridge Bus Station home page (http://www.panynj.gov/tbt/gwbframe.HTM)
- Aerial view of the station and GW Bridge (http://maps.google.com/maps?q=New+York,NY+10033&ll=40.84961414337158,-73.94350290298462&spn=0.01474142074584961,0.018088817596435547&t=k&hl=en)
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