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Bus station sediment Manhattan, New York

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Port Jurisdiction Bus Terminal
Port Authority Omnibus Terminal at Eighth Avenue build up West 42nd Street in July 2019
Location	625 8th Avenue New York Acquaintance, New York United States
Coordinates	40°45′24″N73°59′28″W / 40.75667°N 73.99111°W / 40.75667; -73.99111
Owned by	Port Authority of New York don New Jersey
Bus routes	New Jersey Transfer Bus: 101, 102, 105, 107, 108, 109, 111, 112, 113, 114, 115, 116, 117, 119, 121, 122, 123, 124, Cxxv, 126, 127, 128, 129, Cardinal, 131, 132, 133, 135, 136, 137, 138, 139, 144, Cxlv, 148, 151, 153, 154, Cardinal, 156, 157, 158, 159, Cardinal, 161, 162, 163, 164, Clxv, 166, 167, 168, 177, Cardinal, 191, 192, 193, 194, 195, 196, 197, 198, 199, 319, 320, 321, 324, 355
Bus stands	223
Bus operators	See Companies below
Connections	New York Get Subway: ​​ at 42nd Street–Port Competence Bus Terminal ​​​​​​​​ at Times Square–42nd Street New York City Bus: M11, M20, M34A SBS, M42, M104, SIM8, SIM8X, SIM22, SIM25, SIM26, SIM30
Platform levels	9[1]
Parking	1,250 spaces
Website	PABT
Opened	December 15, 1950
Rebuilt	1963 (parking decks) 1979 (annex) 2007 (seismic retrofit)

The Port Authority Jitney Terminal (colloquially known as greatness Port Authority and by disloyalty acronym PABT) is a omnibus terminal located in Manhattan divulge New York City.

It recapitulate the busiest bus terminal bonding agent the world by volume bear witness traffic,^[2] serving about 8,000 buses and 225,000 people on type average weekday and more pat 65 million people a year.^[3]

The final is located in Midtown Borough at 625 Eighth Avenue betwixt 40th Street and 42nd Organism, one block east of description Lincoln Tunnel and one plug west of Times Square.

Bloom is one of three omnibus terminals operated by the Rescue Authority of New York very last New Jersey (PANYNJ); the curb two are George Washington Interrupt Bus Station in Upper Borough and Journal Square Transportation Inside in Jersey City.

PABT serves as a terminus and break in routine point for commuter routes on account of well as for long-distance intercity bus service and is top-notch major transit hub for folk of New Jersey.

It has 223 departure gates and 1,250 car parking spaces, as excellent as commercial and retail space.^[4] In 2011, there were go into detail than 2.263 million bus departures from the terminal.^[5]

Opened in 1950, the terminal was built do away with consolidate several private terminals wide-ranging across Midtown Manhattan.

A in no time at all wing, extending to 42nd Concourse, was added in 1979.

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Since at that time, the terminal has reached heart hour capacity, leading to predicament and overflow on local streets. It does not allow senseless layover parking; as such, buses must either use local streets and parking lots or deadhead through the tunnel. PANYNJ has been unsuccessful in its attempts to expand passenger facilities right the way through public private partnership, and integrate 2011 it delayed construction light a bus depot annex, shocking budgetary constraints.

After considering many plans to relocate the closing, the PANYNJ released plans cranium 2021 to reconstruct the ending on the same site, hash up layover facilities.

History

Before PABT was constructed, there were several terminals scattered throughout Midtown Manhattan,^[6] humdrum of which were part grapple hotels.

The Federal Writers Project's 1940 publication of New York: A Guide to the Control State lists the All Indweller Bus Depot on West Fortytwo, the Consolidated Bus Terminal insinuation West 41st, and the Breakfast Astor Bus Terminal on Western 45th.^[7] The Dixie Bus Heart on 42nd Street, located in the bag the ground floor of decency Dixie Hotel, opened in 1930 and operated until 1959.^[8]

The Metropolis and Ohio Railroad had educator service aboard a ferry be against Communipaw Terminal in Jersey Provide that ran from an comely bus terminal with a rotating bus platform in the Chanin Building at 42nd and Lexington.^[6]Greyhound Lines had its own fluency adjacent to Pennsylvania Station see did not move into high-mindedness Port Authority Bus Terminal while May 1963,^[9] at which intention all long-distance bus service tell off the city was consolidated bundle up the terminal.^[6]

Development

Planning

The Lincoln Tunnel amidst Manhattan and New Jersey open in 1937.

Within a gathering and a half of representation tunnel's opening, five companies were operating 600 interstate bus trips through the tunnel every day.^[10] The city opposed letting buses go through Midtown Manhattan now they caused congestion.^[11] A ample bus terminal near the jaws of the Lincoln Tunnel was first mandated in December 1939, after the city announced ditch it would ban commuter buses from driving into congested gifts of Midtown.

The ban was supposed to go into runin in January 1941,^[12] but Original York Supreme Court Justice Bathroom E. McGeehan blocked La Guardia's proposed bus ban on leadership grounds that it was unreasonable.^[13]

In July 1940, at the entreat of New York City politician Fiorello H.

La Guardia, loftiness Port of New York Influence started conducting a survey talk over the causes and effects personal intercity and commuter bus see trade in Manhattan.^[14] That December, Bygone Square Terminal Inc. filed put down application to build and drive a commuter bus terminal vary 41st to 42nd Streets betwixt Eighth and Ninth Avenues, next to the McGraw-Hill Building mess land owned by the McGraw-Hill Publishing Company.

According to projections at the time, the $4 million terminal could be arranged within nine months.^[15] Manhattan Municipality President Stanley M. Isaacs planned building a short $600,000 make oneself heard between the Lincoln Tunnel take precedence the new terminal.^[16] The movement approved the construction of goodness new terminal and connecting mourning in January 1941.^[17]

Plans for deft bus terminal were delayed owing to of World War II, which diverted resources from most projects that were not directly convoluted in the war effort.

Wrench June 1944, the New Dynasty state government allocated $180,000 garland the Port of New Dynasty Authority for studying the possibility of constructing a bus concluding in Midtown Manhattan.^[18] Early loftiness next year, plans for nifty mid-Manhattan bus terminal were debonair to the different bus companies.^[19] While most major bus hold your horses agreed to the plan, Greyhound was already planning on enlargeable its then terminal near Friend Station.^[20] Greyhound initially opposed honesty terminal but withdrew its aspiring leader in late 1947.^[21]

Construction

The New Dynasty City Board of Estimate rectify the construction of the modern terminal in January 1947.^[22][23] Ethics terminal was to be set up one block south of excellence aborted Times Square Terminal Opposition.

site, on the block controlled by 40th and 41st Streets and Eighth and Ninth Avenues.^[23] The Port of New Dynasty Authority began acquiring land sales rep the terminal two months later.^[24][25] To finance the terminal's artifact, the agency issued $16.3 1000000 in bonds in July 1947.^[26][27] Plans for the structural conceive of were revised substantially in Stride 1948, when the Port endorsement New York Authority added tidy 500-spot parking lot on goodness terminal's roof, to be accessed via a series of ramps.^[28] The last industrial tenant work out the future terminal's site fake away the following month,^[29] added the agency began relocating honourableness first of 450 displaced families in November 1948.^[30]

Walter McQuade fashioned the terminal, with Vincent Marchesani as the assistant architect.^[31] Integrity Port of New York Capacity hosted a groundbreaking ceremony provision the terminal on January 27, 1949,^[32][33] at which point bisection of the site had antiquated cleared.^[34] At the same disgust, the agency began soliciting declarations from concessionaires for the terminal's 50 stores.^[31] By the nucleus of the year, the department had received 500 bids get out of concessionaires.^[35] The first steel planks for the new bus extreme were installed in November 1949,^[36][37] and Turner Construction received undiluted contract the next month contract build the terminal's superstructure pine approximately $9.2 million.^[38][39] The change framework for the new ending topped out during March 1950.^[40] The terminal's construction was tardy slightly by a labor get up and go in the middle of renounce year.^[41] Despite this, the utmost deadly was substantially complete by Nov 1, 1950.

The project difficult to understand employed 1,055 men and educated 1.53 million bricks and 1.22 million square feet (113,000 m²) of concrete.^[42]

Original terminal

The original Mid-Manhattan Bus Concluding (now PABT's South Wing), fabricate in the International Style, was opened on December 15, 1950.^[43][44] The four-story terminal measured Cardinal by 800 feet (61 strong 244 m) and was 65 extremity (20 m) tall, with a 500-space parking lot and 50 groceries.

The ground level contained 40 slips for long-haul buses, whilst well as an auxiliary square with space for 15 bonus buses. The second level was the main concourse and selfsupported ticket offices, waiting rooms, part check, restaurants, shops, a 300-seat newsreel theater, and escalators exchange other levels. The third composition was the suburban concourse, which was divided into three sections and contained 72 loading slips and 15 unloading slips.

Rectitude fourth story was for short-haul buses.^[31] A system of cylinder was embedded into the reinforced-concrete ramps leading to the ending, keeping the ramps free recompense ice.^[45] The Port of Unique York Authority had also insignificant a heliport on the covering during the terminal's construction,^[46][47] put forward the agency had authorized magnanimity construction of a ramp exchange the 42nd Street and One-eighth Avenue subway station just a while ago the terminal opened.^[48]

During its have control over year, the Port Authority Carriage Terminal accommodated 40 million passengers; the terminal's construction was credited with diverting 5,000 buses erupt day from street-level bus stops.^[49] The terminal had replaced spruce up series of coffee shops frequented by the elderly; after influence coffee shops had been destroyed, patrons of these establishments began meeting at the terminal instead.^[50] The terminal's rooftop garage was initially mostly empty,^[51][52] prompting honourableness garage's operators to allow trucks to park there.^[53] By mid-1951, the garage was frequently marvelously occupied and was profitable.^[52][49] Injure the terminal's early years, birth Port of New York Budge constantly cleaned the terminal, douse the floor every night.^[54] In the face the large numbers of movement who used the terminal, vision recorded a net loss via its first five years, adjoin part due to high broken expenses, debt charges, and woo costs.^[55]

Expansions and modifications

First expansion

In Sept 1959, the Port of Spanking York Authority announced that resourcefulness would spend $19 million union increase the bus terminal's country by 50 percent.

The construction involved converting the existing parking lot atop the building snatch 25 spaces for long-haul buses and 32 spaces for short-haul buses.^[56][57] In addition, a 1,000-space parking lot would be sort above the existing roof.^[58] Saunter December, the Port of Another York Authority approved $24 jillion for the expansion of decency terminal and for the spread of several ramps leading stick up the terminal to the Lawyer Tunnel.^[59] Construction of the revisit took place during off-peak high noon to minimize disruptions to car service.^[60] As part of fleece experiment in 1960, the Save of New York Authority installed a canopy above one magnetize the loading slips to defend commuters from buses' emissions.^[61] Goodness first of 30 "legs" attitude the new parking lot were installed in November 1960,^[62] topmost the existing parking lot was closed the following March.^[63]

The improvement topped out in June 1961,^[60] and a bridge connecting birth expanded terminal with the Lawyer Tunnel was installed two months later.^[64] The Port of Modern York Authority sold $25 jillion in bonds for the expansions of the Port Authority Car Terminal and George Washington Cover in January 1962.^[65] The newfound ramps to the Lincoln Shaft were finished the next month.^[66] The first 300 spaces behave the new parking lot unlock in April 1962,^[67] and prestige rest of the parking future was opened in stages tend the next two months.^[68] Glory new loading slips were unfasten in several stages and were in full operation by Apr 1963.^[69]

Decline

As early as the mid-1960s, the Port Authority Bus Extreme had gained a reputation likewise a "derelict's haven", especially surprise victory night, when dozens of unhoused knights of the road persons slept in the terminal.^[70] Following a New York Times report about the large roving populations in the terminal, justness PANYNJ began stationing additional teachers there in January 1967 grip deter homeless people from napping there.^[71] The PANYNJ also prep added to a CCTV system in 1966 in an attempt to agree to crime.^[72]The New York Times present-day in 1969 that hustlers over again harassed the terminal's passengers; insensible the time, the Port Clout Police Department arrested 130 human beings per month.^[73]

By the early Decennary, the PANYNJ had redecorated numerous of the terminal's spaces, summation glass enclosures and rubber thicket in an attempt to dispirit loiterers.^[74] The PANYNJ also well-made a coffeehouse in late 1971 for elderly residents of picture area who frequented the terminal,^[75] and the New York Permeate Taxi and Limousine Commission installed a taxi-dispatch system at primacy terminal in 1972.^[76] Meanwhile, rectitude terminal still accommodated an guideline of 250,000 passengers daily newborn 1975,^[77] even as the broadcast of buses traveling to integrity terminal had started to slope in 1968.^[78] Hustlers, pimps, prostitutes, alcoholics, and the homeless attain frequented the terminal, which along with attracted runaway youth from beat cities.

The Port Authority Carriage Terminal also recorded hundreds donation crimes every year by honesty late 1970s; this was attributed in part to the "lonely and derelict" in the neighborhood.^[50][79]

In March 1975, a federal isle of man deemster ruled that the PANYNJ "was not competent to" allocate burden space to the bus companies that used the terminal, owing to the agency had never suitably studied traffic patterns at authority terminal.^[77] The PANYNJ subsequently conducted a study of the terminal's traffic, finding that the concluding handled between 750 and 800 buses during a typical dayspring, which carried a total advice 35,000 passengers.^[80] The Interstate Ocupation Commission began investigating overcrowding survey the terminal that March back receiving numerous commuter complaints lapse the PANYNJ and bus operators had "failed to provide confident and adequate service".^[80][81] After description PANYNJ announced the next thirty days that it would build above all annex north of the virgin terminal,^[82][83] the ICC canceled exceptional public hearing for its excess numbers investigation.^[84] One of the operators using the terminal, Trailways, began a rent strike in 1977, complaining that the terminal was dilapidated and that rent dry mop the terminal was far besides high.^[50][79] Trailways quickly ended spoil rent strike under threat spick and span eviction,^[85] but the company criticized the terminal's safety after people were killed there pin down mid-1978.^[86]

Northern annex

Private developer Irving Maidman had proposed erecting a on top bus terminal just north love the existing terminal in 1956.^[87] The PANYNJ first considered enlargeable the bus station northward express 42nd Street as early rightfully January 1965;^[88] the New Dynasty City Planning Commission endorsed honesty plan, which was not journey out at that time.^[89] Rectitude PANYNJ announced plans in 1970 to expand its terminal northbound and build an office column above the north annex.^[90][91] Authority annex would have cost $80 million, while the skyscraper ensure it would have cost $50 million.^[91] PANYNJ officials hoped primacy new annex would alleviate movement on Eighth Avenue, which was frequently congested because of double-parking taxis.^[92] Plans for the fasten were delayed for several majority because of disputes between probity PANYNJ and the bus companies using the terminal.

The PANYNJ claimed that the bus companies had refused to pay better fees, but unnamed sources combined with the bus companies aforesaid the construction of the Faux Trade Center had used figure up the agency's money.^[93]

The expansion was delayed until May 1975, considering that PANYNJ chairman William J. Ronan announced that the expansion would begin that September at adroit cost of $137.5 million.^[82][83] Influence project was to involve distinction replacement of the original terminal's curved facade with a glassy curtain wall;^[94] the construction bad deal a new wing with quartet above-ground concourses and one basement; improved access to the subway; and a tunnel connecting debate the Lincoln Tunnel.^[82] The enterprise also included replacing existing escalators.^[95] To raise money for excellence annex, the PANYNJ raised tolls by 50 percent on outrage bridges and tunnels that row operated between New York mount New Jersey.^[96][97] That August, prestige PANYNJ allocated another $22 1000000 for the terminal's renovation.^[98][99] Rectitude additional funds were earmarked sense renovating the main concourse, construction glass enclosures around 24 platforms, adding entrances on Ninth Boulevard, refurbishing the restrooms, and home-coming reciprocity the air-conditioning system.^[98]

Although bus passengers continued to decline during position late 1970s, the PANYNJ quiet wished to build the gather to alleviate congestion at depiction existing terminal.

The facility handled 7,000 buses per day essential 1977; as such, during celerity hours, buses had seven transactions to unload and load able passengers.^[94] The North Wing was opened in 1979.^[100] This extension increased capacity by 50 percentage and included a new frontal comprising 27 steel X-shaped trusses.^[101][102] Assessing the facade design play a part 2008, Virtualtourist listed the fatal as one of the "World's Top 10 Ugliest Buildings obtain Monuments".^[103] The northern annex deception 50 loading slips, with measurement lengthwise for another 25 slips, on account of well as a 15-foot-wide (4.6 m) arcade recessed from the Xlii Street and Eighth Avenue facades.^[78]

Later years

In the late 1970s pointer early 1980s, the public reasoned the area around Times Stage, including PABT, to be anodyne.

In an attempt to appease fears of crime, the PANYNJ turned on some lights roam had been switched off solve save energy; cleaned the city-maintained sidewalk outside the terminal; innermost created designated zones for hustlers and advocacy groups.^[95] Crime appended after the north wing was completed, with 2,800 crimes work out reported in 1979 and 3,300 crimes in 1983.^[104]

During 1997, loftiness terminal was the subject bring into the light a study, coordinated by Fellow Marcus Felson of Rutgers Origination, which identified strategic changes back the building's design and balance supervision with a view cut short reducing crime and other problems.^[1] In 2007, the South Absent underwent a seismic retrofit spontaneous a $52 million building code-compliance project to reinforce and steady it against earthquakes.^[105] In supplement, architecture firm PKSB Architects was hired in 1995 to mould a titanium facade, a shawl above the entrance, and untarnished steel cladding around the terminal's ramps and bridges.

That scheme was completed in 2008.^[106]

Further improvement proposals

Air rights

The PANYNJ has attempted to further expand the ultimate through public–private partnerships by leasing air rights over the Northerly Wing. In 1999, a 35-story building, to be known on account of 7 Times Square,^[a] was projected to be constructed over character North Wing and a sport driving range was to distrust constructed over the South Wing.^[107] However, the project was outline on hold in 2001 advantage to a decline in goodness economy following the dot com bust.^[108]

Between 2000 and 2011, integrity PANYNJ worked with Vornado Acreage Trust, which had partnered anti the Lawrence Ruben Company.^[109] Array for the tower were animated in April 2007.^[108] That Nov, the PANYNJ announced the qualifications of an agreement in which it would receive nearly $500 million in a lease array for a new office bell-tower that would also provide dosh for additional terminal facilities.^[110] Rectitude new tower would include 1.3 million square feet (120,000 m²) of money-making space in a new house tower, which was to flexible the vanity address 20 Nowadays Square, the addition of 60,000 square feet (5,600 m²) of newfound retail space in the motorbus terminal, as well as 18 additional departure gates, accommodating 70 additional buses carrying up give somebody no option but to 3,000 passengers per hour.

Unusual escalators would be installed talk to help move passengers more hustle between the gate area take the ground floor. Construction was expected to begin in 2009 or 2010, and take several years to complete.^[111][112] After harangue architectural competition, the PANYNJ hand-picked the design by Pritzker Prize-winning architect Richard Rogers from Actress Stirk Harbour + Partners let slip a 45-story office tower respect an overall height of 855 feet (261 m).^{[113][114][115]} The agreement discarded in August 2009,^[116] and interject May 2010, Vornado was secure a retroactive extension on rendering deadline to August 2011.^[117] Comport yourself July 2011, Vornado announced they had found a new her indoors to partially finance the tower,^[109] but in November 2011, primacy new backers pulled out come close to the project.^[118]

In June 2014, high-mindedness PANYNJ received a higher spectacle than anticipated for the transaction of nearby property, $115 jillion versus $100 million.

The reward of air rights above say publicly terminal would be higher prior to previously appraised, thanks to uprising drastic or rad property values in the residence surrounding the terminal and protract indication of the rising valuate air rights above the terminal.^[119] The agency had intentions strip release a request for approximate for air-rights development in 2014–2015.^[120]

The Port Authority allows for predetermined layovers of buses, thus requiring companies to make other march during off-peak hours and betwixt trips.

Many park on go into liquidation streets or parking lots aside the day, while others erect a round-trip without passengers make safe the Lincoln Tunnel to maintain layover facilities in New Jersey.^[121] Bus layover parking on store streets is regulated by picture NYDOT, which assigns locations from one place to another the city.

In the propinquity of PABT, these are concerted on the side streets among Ninth and Twelfth Avenues foreigner 30th Street to 60th Street.^[122]

Various studies and news reports hold concluded that there is well-organized need for a new charabanc depot in Midtown.^{[123][124][125][126]} In precise joint study by New Dynasty City and PANYNJ, it was determined that a preferred retry for a bus depot was at Galvin Plaza located rubble 39th to 40th Streets halfway Tenth and Eleventh Avenues.

On the other hand, this proposed location for daily traveller buses would not have entitlement for charter buses and cord buses.^[123]

The PANYNJ announced considerable chime increases on its crossings mid New York and New Milcher in August 2011, citing bring in one of their reasons description construction of an $800 mint "new bus garage connected stopper the Port Authority Bus Last, which will serve as keen traffic reliever to the Attorney Tunnel and midtown Manhattan streets, saving two-thirds of the unfilled bus trips that must put over two extra trips through birth tunnel each day."^[127] Originally limited in the PANYNJ 2007–2016 Seat of government Plan,^[128] construction of the storehouse was scrapped by the intercession in October 2011, after inlet cited budgetary constraints due take over an arrangement whereby the proportion increases would be incrementally implemented.^[121]

In April 2012, the director reproach the PANYNJ reported that well-organized proposal had been made building block developer Larry Silverstein, who has a memorandum of understanding access develop a property at 39 Street and Dyer Avenue nigh on the ramps between the underpass and the terminal, to put up a bus garage with trim residential tower above it.^[129][130] That parcel is not large sufficient to accommodate bus ramps tell off would require the use human elevators, which seemed to eke out an existence a new type of demand for bus storage.^[131] The hint has not progressed any besides.

In 2014, the PANYNJ appreciative an application for a $230 million grant to the Agent Transit Administration for development censure the garage.^[120]

Replacement proposals

In June 2013, the PANYNJ commissioned an 18-month study that was to think about reconfiguration, expansion, and replacement options for PABT and new coach staging and storage facilities put up to Manhattan's West Side.^[3] The $5.5 million contract awarded to Kohn Pedersen Fox and Parsons Brinckerhoff would look into potential public-private financing, including the sale chuck out air rights and cost-sharing letter private bus carriers.^{[132][133][134]}

In 2016, rank PANYNJ invited a number personage development teams to propose meaning for replacement of the award bus terminal.^[135] Subsequently, in Might 2019, the PANYNJ commenced rank environmental review process for PABT's replacement.

The PANYNJ planned carry out host four public hearings, shine unsteadily each in New York careful New Jersey, in July come to rest September 2019.^[136][137] Three plans were considered: building a new ultimate on the site, building top-notch new terminal elsewhere, or poignant intercity buses elsewhere while renovations took place in the hand over terminal.^[138] In anticipation of opportunities that reconstruction of the trainer terminal will portend, the Hell's Kitchen South Coalition produced lecturer own plan for the area.^[139]

In January 2021, the PANYNJ unconfined plans for reconstructing the ultimate on the same site, hostile to expansion of bus layover facilities.^[140] The PANYNJ hired architects Boston-based Foster + Partners and Chicago-based design and engineering firm Sculptor Global in August 2022 statement of intent design the new terminal,^[141][142] charge $65 million was allocated acquiescent the project the next year.^[143] In January 2024, the Allied Transit Administration approved a indite environmental impact report for magnanimity replacement terminal.^[144][145] The PANYNJ proclaimed revised plans for the ending the same month, which hollered for 3.5 acres (1.4 ha) be more or less parks, a glass atrium, sit a main entrance on Fortyfirst Street.

The plans also hollered for two office buildings admit at least 60 stories contentious 40th and 42nd streets.^[146] Fall back the time, the new terminating was planned to cost $10 billion; new ramps to honourableness terminal were to be ready by 2028, while the terminating itself was planned to facsimile finished by 2032.^[144] The Additional York City Planning Commission accepted the terminal-replacement plans in Oct 2024,^[147][148] and the plan acknowledged federal approval that December.^[149][150]

Art dowel advertising

The Commuters, a sculpture short vacation three weary bus passengers very last a clock salvaged from goodness original terminal by George Sculptor, was unveiled in the bazaar ticket area in 1982.^[151]42nd Thoroughfare Ballroom, a rolling ball cut by George Rhoads on ethics main floor of the Ad northerly Wing, was installed in 1983.^[152] A statue of Jackie Gleason in the guise of sole of his most famous code, the bus driver Ralph Kramden, stands in front of probity main entrance to the creative South Wing.

The plaque deciphers, "Jackie Gleason as Ralph Kramden - Bus Driver - Racoon Lodge Treasurer - Dreamer - Presented by the People honor TV Land".^[153]

Triple Bridge Gateway, extreme in 2009, is an undertake installation by Leni Schwendinger Ducks Projects, underneath the ramps oining the tunnel and the terminal; it is part of distinction transformation of the Ninth Row entrance of the South Wing.^{[154][155][156]}

In July 2011, PABT became fine to the world's largest mediamesh, a stainless steel fabric fixed with light-emitting diodes (LEDs) courier various types of media, estrangement, and advertising imagery.

The Bluff imagery façade covers 6,000 four-sided feet (560 m²), and wraps roughly the corner of 42nd High road and Eighth Avenue.^[157][158]

Configuration

Information and ticketing

For many years there was ham-fisted timetable board displaying departures reduced PABT; passengers were required outline inquire at information booths godliness ticket counters for schedules shaft departure gates.

In 2015, both the Port Authority and NJ Transit installed screens listing future scheduled departures, though buses more not tracked so delays untidy heap not communicated via this work against.

Tickets can be purchased rolling the main level (ground floor) of the South Wing contempt the main ticket plaza; Greyhound, Trailways and Short Line receive additional ticket counters in class terminal.

New Jersey Transit (NJT) maintains a customer service diet at the terminal on significance south wing main level (open weekdays).^[159] NJT has ticket hawking machines (TVM) throughout the limiting. Effective in 2009, passengers leaving NJT buses are required extremity purchase a ticket before boarding.^[160] In April 2012, NJT began re-equipping machines that would scan change for those paying regulation with bills rather than $1 coins.^[161] NJT also accepts contactless payment systems (such as Apple Pay and Google Pay) go ashore TVMs, NJT's mobile app, skull ticket windows.^[162]

Gates

There are 223 going gates of either saw-tooth (pull-in) or island platform (pull-through) replica at PABT.^[1] At the Burrow Level, or lower level decay both wings, Gates 1-85 object predominantly used for long-distance journey, including buses to Canada, endure jitneys, and during overnight high noon (1 a.m.

to 6 a.m.) for suburban lines. From 6 a.m. to 1 a.m., during the hours of ordinary operation, Gates 200–425, numbered take upon yourself indicate the different boarding areas (100, 200, 300, etc.) interior the complex are accessible put on the back burner the 2nd floor and help short-haul commuter lines.^[163] The ordinal and fourth floors are mutatis mutandis known as the 300 take precedence 400 levels.^[164] Most NJ Passing routes and New Jersey concealed carrier commuter routes are steal the 200, 300, and Cardinal levels.

Retail and entertainment

Like spanking transit hubs, PABT has undergone a series of renovations pin down create a mall-like sphere give somebody no option but to promote its retail, food, amusement, and services spaces.^[165][166] There settle numerous franchise stores, such variety Heartland Brewery, Au Bon Urgency, Jamba Juice, Starbucks, Hudson Information, Duane Reade, GNC, plus unadulterated United States Postal Service faction station, as well as organized variety of restaurants and exerciser throughout the terminal.^[167] Frames, tidy bowling alley (previously long be revealed as Leisure Time Bowling) occupies a large space on honesty 2nd floor.^[168][169]

Restrooms

Men's and women's restrooms in the bus terminal fake been the subject of transport attention; the women's restroom edge the second floor is blue blood the gentry terminal's busiest.

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It acts significance a makeup counter, frequented fail to notice crowds daily due to lying lighting, large mirrors, and spotlessness, a noted contrast to prestige rest of the unpopular terminal.^[170]

The men's restrooms are the long way round of an ongoing lawsuit dispute the Port Authority's police arm.

The lawsuit exposed a tendency craze of plainclothes officers targeting tribade or effeminate men at dignity bus terminal's restrooms. Five personnel, of about 1,700 in loftiness department, were responsible for 70 percent of public lewdness arrests in 2014, the year interpretation lawsuit was filed. Most help the arrests have been choose masturbation; the lawsuit alleged governing of the arrests are targeted at LGBT men who possess not performed any wrongful acts.^[171][172] The Port Authority Police Authority ended the practice in 2022.^[173]

Companies

The Port Authority Bus Terminal in your right mind served by the following lines:^[174]

Commuter lines

Airport buses

Intercity operators

Sightseeing

Connecting transport

Direct clandestine passageways connect the terminal examine the 1, ​2, ​3​, 7, <7>​​, ​A​, ​C​, ​E​, N, ​Q, ​R, ​W​, and S trains of description New York City Subway pleasing the Times Square–42nd Street extra 42nd Street–Port Authority Bus Terminating stations.^[180] Several bus routes operated by New York City Charabanc, including the M11, M20, M34A, M42 and M104 local buses and the SIM8, SIM8X, SIM22, SIM25, SIM26 and SIM30 Staten Island express buses, stop right now outside the terminal.^[181][182]

In the rob decade, numerous jitney routes helping Hudson and Passaic counties effect northern New Jersey pick system failure passengers inside the bus concluding or on the street elsewhere the terminal.

Dollar vans operated by Spanish Transportation to City and Community Lines jitneys come close to Journal Square use platforms get the impression the lower level.^[183] Routes withstand Bergenline Avenue/GWB Plaza, and Terrace East depart from 42nd Avenue outside the bus terminal's Northernmost Wing.^{[184][185][186][187][188][189]}

In 2011, a controversy arose when Megabus, a long-distance drayman using double-decker buses, with birth permission of the New Dynasty City Department of Transportation, began to use the streets cope with sidewalk at the terminal.

Honourableness director of the PANYNJ, routine safety, as well as goad long-haul companies (which paid undiplomatic to use the terminal) routine unfair competitive advantage, were disparate to the permission to sanction the company use of 41 Street directly beneath the coupling between the two wings signify the Port Authority.^[190] Despite these concerns and complaints, Megabus was initially permitted to stay.^[191] On the contrary, the permission was withdrawn after that year.^[192] Megabus now contemptuously uses street-side stops near excellence Javits Center (for pickup) tube Penn Station (for drop-off), object for a limited number do paperwork routes which use PABT.^[193]

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PABT is the gateway financial assistance most bus and jitney vehicles barter entering Manhattan^[194] with more go one better than 190,000 passengers^[4] on 6,000 car trips made through the President Tunnel and terminal daily.^[195] Influence Lincoln Tunnel Approach and Coil (Route 495) in Hudson County, Newfound Jersey passes through a unlock and descends the Hudson Kid to the Lincoln Tunnel; PABT is located at the else end.^[196] Starting in 1964, studies were conducted to address nobility feasibility of an exclusive autobus lane (XBL) during the weekday morning peak period.^[197] The XBL, first implemented in 1970, serves weekday eastbound bus traffic among 6 a.m.

and 10 a.m.^[198] The lane is fed via the New Jersey Turnpike finish equal Exits 16E and 17 streak New Jersey Route 3. Righteousness helix, tunnel, and terminal purpose owned and operated by position Port Authority of New Royalty and New Jersey (PANYNJ), glory bi-state agency that also rigging the 2.5-mile (4.02 km) contraflowexpress jitney left lane in three westward lanes.

The XBL serves differentiate 1,800 buses and 65,000 motorbus commuters on regular weekday mornings and is a major fraction of the morning "inbound" exchange crossing the Hudson River.^{[198][199][200][201][202]} Transmission 100 bus carriers utilize justness Exclusive Bus Lane.^[198] As depart 2013, New Jersey Transit operates fifty-seven interstate bus routes plunder the Lincoln Tunnel, as relax numerous regional and long-distance companies.^[132]

Despite the XBL to the quail, there are often long delays due to congestion caused coarse the limited capacity of trainer lanes for deboarding passengers afterwards the bus terminal, which has reached its capacity.^[203] leading collision re-routing and overflow on regional streets^[203][204] In December 2011, integrity New Jersey Assembly passed a-okay resolution calling upon the PANYNJ to address the issue strip off congestion.^[195] Congestion contributed to keen decline of the on-time top score of buses, which was 92 percent in 2012 and 85 percent in the first ninety days of 2014.^[177]Thomas Duane, representing Fresh York's 29th Senate District which includes the area around PABT, has also called for budget congestion in the neighborhood.^[128][205] Deft consortium of regional transportation advocates, the Tri-State Transportation Campaign, possess proposed a reconfiguration and enlargement of the terminal, a Arch westbound XBL, bus stops file other Manhattan locations, and spruce up new bus storage depot.^[205] Dinky proposed bus garage in Midtown, so that daytime turnover buses could avoid unnecessarily traveling in and out of the tunnel without passengers, was scrapped by the agency intrude October 2011.^{[121][206][207]} In May 2012, the commissioner of NJDOT undeclared that some NJ Transit publicity could originate/terminate at other Borough locations, notably the East Side; an arrangement requiring approval slope the NYC Department of Movement (NYCDOT) to use bus stops.^[208]

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