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Bethlehem Connect · Place sheet · Station area 3 · South

Goodman Campus / Stabler Arena

Athletics, events and fitness · gondola terminal option

Phase 1 · conditional target 2029

Typology: Event hub

Planning phase. An independent plan; nothing is funded or built yet.

Locator map of Goodman Campus / Stabler Arena and the lines around it
  • 3Goodman / Stabler Arena

Connect Spine (Phase 1)River Line (Phase 1)Dashed: options and if-demand linksGondola optionLANTA EBS todayShaded area: a station area or evaluated destination on Lehigh, hospital, casino or private retail land, not a site

Why here

Lehigh's athletics campus and Stabler Arena draw large event crowds. A Spine stop plus event staging would serve games, concerts and commencement; it is also the southern end of the gondola possibility.

Program ideas (planning phase)

  • Spine BRT stop on Goodman Drive with level boarding and a solar canopy
  • Event bays and queue corrals, with surge plans for sellouts
  • Gondola terminal (option) on open ground east of the arena
  • Equipment-lending lockers and team food pickup
  • Links to Rauch Field House, Ulrich and the Goodman fields (venues for recreational leagues such as Lehigh Leagues, a separate student-run initiative)

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.

Measured here

Lines
Connect Spine — electric BRT
Elevation
96 m (USGS 3DEP)
10-minute walk
60 ha · 36 buildings · 17 places
LANTA today
No LANTA trips within 400 m in the 2022 timetable
Future train access
From Goodman / Stabler Arena, about 9 minutes on Bethlehem Connect to the rail-ready stop at I-78 Park & Ride.

The station area

A gondola terminal here is an option only. No site has been chosen, and any site on Lehigh land would need Lehigh's agreement. The Spine stop would be a platform on Goodman Drive with level boarding.

What exists today

  • Lehigh campus shuttles serve the Goodman Campus today.
  • Lehigh's existing 3.1 MWdc Goodman solar array serves Lehigh, not transit.

Still unknown

  • Municipal jurisdiction (reported Lower Saucon Twp)
  • Carbonate-geology overlay
  • Lehigh land use and event operations agreements

Place sheet v1.5 · 22 October 2026 · website-five-tau-72.vercel.app/files/places/goodman-stabler.pdf

Bethlehem Connect is an independent plan by David Fischbarg, in the planning phase. Nothing is funded or built yet. It is not an official project of, or endorsed by, any agency, university, hospital, company or the City named on this sheet. No route, station or facility has been surveyed, engineered or funded. No passenger trains run in Bethlehem today, and no regional rail route has been chosen. Data: Overture Maps 2026-09-23.1 (© OpenStreetMap contributors; ESA WorldCover, CC BY 4.0), USGS 3DEP terrain, LANTA 2022 timetable (service has changed since). Lines are corridors on existing streets, not engineered routes.