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 New York City subway line.

• 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.

External links

• GW Bridge Bus Station home page]
• Aerial view of the station and GW Bridge