Bethlehem Connect · Place sheet · Station area 6 · Lehigh & Southside
Farrington Square
Campus edge and Southside retail · junction of the Spine and the River Line
- 5Lehigh University Center
- 6Farrington Square
- 7Third Street / SteelStacks
Connect Spine (Phase 1)River Line (Phase 1)Dashed: options and if-demand linksGondola optionLANTA EBS todaySLEvaluated destination: St. Luke's (Fountain Hill)Shaded area: a station area or evaluated destination on Lehigh, hospital, casino or private retail land, not a site
Why here
Where the two Phase 1 lines meet at New & Morton streets, with timed transfers across a shared platform pair.
Program ideas (planning phase)
- Junction platforms
- Student-services kiosk and bike hub
- Affordable-food partners
- Station designed to face existing shops
Every station also gets the station kit: level boarding, shelter, lighting, real-time screens, bike racks, a rain garden and a sorting point for recycling, compost and trash.
What exists today
- About 264 LANTA weekday trips within 400 m (2022 timetable data).
Measured here
- Lines
- Connect Spine — electric BRT · River Line — upgraded EBS core · Valley Express — bus option · St. Luke's branch option A
- Elevation
- 83 m (USGS 3DEP)
- 10-minute walk
- 113 ha · 656 buildings · 524 places
- LANTA today
- About 264 weekday trips within 400 m (2022 timetable)
- Future train access
- Sits on the rail-ready valley corridor at Farrington Square.
- Stop option nearby
- 4th & Wyandotte: a candidate stop on St. Luke's branch option A, 0.73 km from here along the branch
The station area
Where the Spine and River Line would meet on New St at Morton St: a shared pair of junction platforms.
Still unknown
- Bus lanes on New St need traffic counts and a lane-use study