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Bethlehem Connect · Place sheet · Station area 2 · South

Hellertown / Saucon Valley (Main St)

Walk-up town-center stop · Saucon Rail Trail link

Phase 1 · conditional target 2029

Typology: Neighborhood

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

Locator map of Hellertown / Saucon Valley (Main St) and the lines around it
  • 2Hellertown / Saucon Valley

Connect Spine (Phase 1)River Line (Phase 1)Dashed: options and if-demand linksGondola optionLANTA EBS today

Why here

Serves Hellertown and Saucon Valley residents, not just Lehigh — a walk-up stop on Main Street (Rt 412) near the Saucon Rail Trail.

Program ideas (planning phase)

  • Shelter with real-time information
  • Bike parking
  • Saucon Rail Trail wayfinding

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 34 LANTA weekday trips within 400 m (2022 timetable data; service has changed since).
Map of the southern section around Hellertown (opens the full-size image)
Hellertown Main St stop (2) on the Spine; Saucon Rail Trail in green. Shaded areas mark station areas, not sites.

Measured here

Lines
Connect Spine — electric BRT
Elevation
87 m (USGS 3DEP)
10-minute walk
144 ha · 1,750 buildings · 227 places
LANTA today
About 34 weekday trips within 400 m (2022 timetable)
Future train access
From Hellertown / Saucon Valley, about 5 minutes on Bethlehem Connect to the rail-ready stop at I-78 Park & Ride.

Still unknown

  • Main Street parking and loading, to coordinate with the Borough

Place sheet v1.5 · 22 October 2026 · website-five-tau-72.vercel.app/files/places/hellertown-saucon-valley.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.