The Grant Street Transportation Center is an intercity

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and parking garage in downtown

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, Pennsylvania. The facility is operated by the Pittsburgh Parking Authority and takes up an entire city block, with the ground floor hosting the bus station and some retail space. Upper floors are dedicated to parking.

Operations

Bus station

The ground floor bus station covers and hosts 14 bus slips. The main entrance to the bus station is at the base of the glass tower at the corner of Liberty Avenue and 11th Street. The center is located across the street from Pittsburgh Union Station which is served by two daily Amtrak trains and is the western terminus of the

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. Greyhound Lines is the primary tenant at the bus station, but it is also served by

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, Commuter routes A, 1 and 2 of the

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and the 29 Grey Line of the

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Parking structure

Above ground level, the property is bisected by an elevated railroad bridge. The result is that from ground level, the center appears as one facility visually, but functions as two separate parking garages, referred to as red and blue with a total of 991 spaces. The parking authority advertises the center as being a parking location for the nearby

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, and Strip District. The center also offers long-term parking for passengers catching a train from Union Station or riding an intercity bus route.

History

The center replaced a Greyhound station that was built in 1959 on the same property. At the time of its construction, the center cost to build. The plan for the transportation center started to come together in summer 2002. At that time, Greyhound approached the city, looking to rebuild its 40-year-old bus station. At the same time, the city had also been looking to add parking for Downtown, the Strip District and the Convention Center which, at the time, was about to open a major expansion. A plan for the parking authority to buy the land, raize the old bus station and replace it with a combination bus station and parking garage was announced in February 2003. Greyhound moved out of the old bus station in July 2005 and into temporary buildings in the parking authority's Second Avenue Plaza lot. The primary architect for the project was IKM and the general contractor was PJ Dick. The new bus station opened on September 9, 2008, ahead of a grand opening for the entire facility a few weeks later on September 29.

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* {{Pittsburgh transportation Bus stations in Pennsylvania Transportation buildings and structures in Pittsburgh