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George Washington Bridge Bus Station is a commuter bus terminal located at the east end of the George Washington Bridge in the Washington Heights area of Manhattan in New York City, New York. The bus station is owned and operated by the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey. On a typical weekday, approximately 17,000 passengers on about 950 buses use the station. Major renovations, including an expansion of retail space from , have been in progress with an expected cost of more than . The work started in late 2013 and is expected to be completed in the late spring of 2016.〔Hughes, C. L. (October 15, 2014). ("Affordable Manhattan in Hudson Heights" ). ''The New York Times''.〕 ==Architecture== 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. The building was designed by noted Italian engineer Pier Luigi Nervi and is one of only a few buildings he designed outside of Italy. It opened January 13, 1963 as a replacement for a series of sidewalk bus loading areas that existed between 166th and 167th streets further south.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.panynj.gov/bus-terminals/gwbbs-history.html )〕 The building is constructed of huge steel-reinforced concrete trusses, fourteen of which are cantilevered from supports in the median of the Trans-Manhattan Expressway, which it straddles. The building contains murals as well as busts of George Washington and Othmar Amman, the civil engineer who designed the bridge. The building received the 1963 Concrete Industry Board’s Award. The first floor of the bus terminal has space for shops (all currently vacant as of December 2013) and a passenger waiting area. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「George Washington Bridge Bus Station」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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