Show me your contemporary multimodal transit centers

Cirrus · #1 Posted: **Jun 27, 2012, 7:56 PM**

We've had lots of threads about train stations, and those have been cool. What I'd like to see now are examples of transit stations that serve multiple modes, and which are relatively recent.

Here are the guidelines for what to post:

No vintage train stations, even if they've been expanded. You can post the expansion if it's obviously a different/new building, but focus on the expansion. This thread is not about beaux arts (as awesome as beaux arts is).
Your station must serve at least two different types of transit.
- Examples of transit modes that can be used to count towards the 2-mode minimum include include: city buses, BRT, streetcar, light rail, metro, commuter rail, monorail, intercity passenger rail (Amtrak).
- Do NOT include automobiles, taxis, slug lines, pedestrians, or bikes. Having a park and ride and a bike rack attached to a light rail stop is not adequate to call it a multimodal station. You CAN cite these things as being present at your station, but don't use them to meet the 2-mode minimum.
We are looking for true stations here, not just stops. There should be a physical building, not just a platform, a bench, and a canopy. Even if a BRT line and a city bus line happen to share a stop, it doesn't count unless there's an actual building.

Cirrus · #2 Posted: **Jun 27, 2012, 8:18 PM**

I'll kick it off with an example. This is Sarbanes Station, aka the Silver Spring Transit Center, in downtown Silver Spring, Maryland. It is currently under construction.

It's being built adjacent to the existing Silver Spring Metro station, which is the busiest DC Metro station in Maryland. The Metro station won't change, but the new transit center will integrate a large regional bus station with separate areas for local, commuter, and intercity buses. It will also provide improved connection to the existing Silver Spring MARC commuter rail station, and add a new elevated light rail station for the Purple Line, which hasn't been built yet. It will also have a taxi stand, a bikesharing station, direct access to a major regional bike trail, and an attached commuter store.

This image shows the existing Metro station in the lower right corner, with the existing MARC station behind it in the upper right. The new building is the curvy concrete one, which will have three levels. The top level is a taxi stand (the building is on a hill so the top level is actually flush with the ground at the rear of the site), the middle level is for intercity buses, and the bottom level is for local buses. This image is missing the light rail station, because it will be added later.

Here's a similar view. The small unlabeled building on the sidewalk in the lower center is the commuter store.

This image shows how the Purple Line light rail platform will be added. It will be elevated directly above the trail and commuter store, in the space between the bus garage and Metro station.

The design for Sarbanes Station that was ultimately chosen and is currently under construction was the 3rd version. Unfortunately, the previous 2 were better.

This was the original design, from the late-1990s. It was much more grand, as you can see. The problem with this design is it did not integrate light rail. The light rail station that will be built is located exactly where the grand stair is in this version.

In the early-2000s, this 2nd design was proposed. It would have had a large central atrium waiting room. This was eventually abandoned because, I think, cost.

brickell · #3 Posted: **Jun 27, 2012, 8:34 PM**

Miami Intermodal Center (aka Miami Central Station).

Metrorail (heavy), Tri-rail (commuter), Amtrack, MIAmover airport connection (peoplemover), buses, taxis and rental car center adjacent. Unforutnately this all out by the airport and not downtown, but it's something.

rendering:

currently under construction:

Nexis4Jersey · #4 Posted: **Jun 27, 2012, 9:43 PM**

Secaucus JCT
Daily Passengers : 20,000
Train Services : 9 (2012) > 20 (2030)
Top Speed : 90mph (Express Trains)
Connections to NJT Buses and 2 divisions of Rail : Hoboken (Diesel) and New York (Electric)

Secaucus Junction Rail Station, New Jersey by jag9889, on Flickr

Hoboken division Tracks

DSCN4227 by Nexis4Jersey09, on Flickr

New York Division Tracks

DSCN3672 by Nexis4Jersey09, on Flickr

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L41A · #5 Posted: **Jun 28, 2012, 7:50 AM**

MARTA Airport Station

Heavy Rail (MARTA), Light Rail (SkyTrain) to Consolidated Rental Car Center (CRCC), ATL Airport (Gates-Control Tower in background), Plane Train (not shown - subway inside terminal connecting concourses/terminals)

Lindbergh Station (Red/Gold Lines Transfer Point)
Heavy Rail and Metro Bus

The Chemist · #6 Posted: **Jun 28, 2012, 2:19 PM**

Shanghai's best example of this is the Hongqiao Integrated Transit hub, which opened in 2010.

http://www.mcc.com.cn/UploadFiles/Fo...1126564443.jpg

It has the following:
-Hongqiao International Airport (mainly domestic, but also serving destinations such as HK/Macau, and some Korean/Japanese flights)
-Hongqiao Railway Station (serving HSR to Hangzhou, Nanjing, and Beijing)
-Metro Line 2 and Metro Line 10 (stations at the airport and the railway station)
-Shanghai West Long Distance Bus Station

PLANSIT · #7 Posted: **Jun 28, 2012, 4:46 PM**

Cirrus, are you counting airplanes as a mode (You know where I'm heading with this)?

wong21fr · #8 Posted: **Jun 28, 2012, 5:12 PM**

^Shouldn't matter, the DIA station includes commuter rail, buses, and the terminal people mover.

ardecila · #9 Posted: **Jun 28, 2012, 7:27 PM**

I'm not sure how you're defining "contemporary"... Chicago has several from the 1960s onwards.

The most recent one is Howard, which sits at the north end of the Red Line at the northern limit of the city. It hosts Red, Purple, and Yellow Line trains, with local and express service running south toward the Loop, local service running north to Evanston, and local service running west to Skokie.

Bus transfers are organized on a fake "street" that runs through the site, integrated with parking and some retail/office space.

Designers puzzlingly chose to line the "street" with a monotonous series of boring brick facades, even though the rail station has a steel-and-glass look. The brick parts are not flattering.

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SnyderBock · #10 Posted: **Jun 28, 2012, 10:26 PM**

The Denver Union Station multi-modal transit expansion, I guess can be included. The only question, is the requirement that it be a building. I'd call the Underground Bus terminal and Pedestrian Corridor, an underground building. And it connects at ground level to a canopy for the Light Rail Terminal and on the other end to a train shed structure for EMU, DMU and AmTrak. The development will then have buildings constructed all around it.

Modes of transit at DUS (once complete):
-EMU
-DMU
-LRT
-BRT
-Regional & local Bus
-AmTrak
-Free 16th Street Mall Shuttle Buses (and the future 18/19th street companion service)

Also included in the development:
-A large Bicycle Station (Bike lockers, air and other maintenance capabilities)
-B-Cycle Bike Share Station
-Taxi cutouts

arkhitektor · #11 Posted: **Jun 29, 2012, 5:01 PM**

Salt Lake Central Station:

arkhitektor · #12 Posted: **Jun 29, 2012, 5:42 PM**

Ogden (The northern terminus of Salt Lake's Commuter Rail line) has a small intermodal center as well. It serves Commuter Rail, UTA Bus and Greyhound:

Nexis4Jersey · #13 Posted: **Jun 29, 2012, 6:08 PM**

Trenton Trenton Center
Daily Passengers : 15,600
Train Services : 14 (2012) > 18 (2030)
Top Speed : 135Mph (Amtrak Only)
Connections to NJT Buses , RiverLine LRT , Amtrak and Regional Rail

2011 01 23 - 0793-0794 - Trenton - Train Station by thisisbossi, on Flickr

2011 01 23 - 0798 - Trenton - Train Station by thisisbossi, on Flickr

The River Line Center in Trenton by sameold2010, on Flickr

Trenton Transit Center by kyle.tucker95, on Flickr

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VivaLFuego · #14 Posted: **Jun 29, 2012, 6:16 PM**

Quote:

Originally Posted by ardecila

Designers puzzlingly chose to line the "street" with a monotonous series of boring brick facades, even though the rail station has a steel-and-glass look. The brick parts are not flattering.

source

Different projects --- CTA executed design/construction of the station, while everything else (retail, parking) was a private developer several years earlier.

ardecila · #15 Posted: **Jun 29, 2012, 9:50 PM**

Yeah, I thought the parking garage looked suspiciously like the Dominick's. All of that is a prime candidate for a massive TOD at high density, if the city can ever tackle the crime problems in RP. The station itself is quite nice, even if the track assignment and signage is confusing.

Chef · #16 Posted: **Jul 1, 2012, 6:06 PM**

The Mall of America transit station is in a parking ramp so it is a bit on the utilitarian side:

Mall of America Transit Station by Brady Dorman, on Flickr

scalziand · #17 Posted: **Jul 2, 2012, 3:42 AM**

Worcester is building a new city bus hub adjacent to the Existing Union Station which serves commuter and regional rail and intercity buses. It's not very pretty.

Briefing: Worcester's Transportation Hub
April 2, 2012

Tomorrow, city and state officials will celebrate the groundbreaking for a new bus transfer facility adjacent to Union Station, which will replace a hub located several blocks away in front of City Hall. The three-story, 14,000-square-foot facility will house the Worcester Regional Transit Authority's offices and act as a hub for all WRTA buses.

Why does the WRTA want to move the current bus transfer hub?
In short, the WRTA and the city think it will be better for both bus riders and the city if intra-city buses flow through Union Station, which acts as a conduit for rail, taxi and intercity bus service from Greyhound and Peter Pan. Tim McGourthy, Worcester's chief development officer, said the hub will change WRTA's current status in the city as a transportation "side player."
"This location allows us to connect riders of commuter rail into direct access thru all points in the city," McGourthy said. Those connections from Union Station will become more important when promised expansions to MBTA rail service into and out of the city are realized.

http://www.wbjournal.com/apps/pbcs.d...TION/304029989