Bethlehem Connect · Place sheet · Station area 7 · Lehigh & Southside
Third Street / SteelStacks
Transfer with LANTA's SouthSide Station stops · arts and events · Wind Creek connection
- 6Farrington Square
- 7Third Street / SteelStacks
Connect Spine (Phase 1)River Line (Phase 1)Dashed: options and if-demand linksGondola optionLANTA EBS todayWCEvaluated destination: Wind CreekShaded area: a station area or evaluated destination on Lehigh, hospital, casino or private retail land, not a site
Why here
Already on LANTA's Enhanced Bus Service trunk (Green and Blue lines). The River Line upgrades it; event crowds at SteelStacks and Musikfest make it a natural hub.
Program ideas (planning phase)
- Transfer plaza and event queuing
- Wayfinding to the Steel Ice Center, Skateplaza, the Greenway and Wind Creek
- Link to Bethlehem Commons, a separate recreation-campus project whose candidate sites are about a 7–8 minute walk away
- Street-level "Dig & Discover" gallery idea (no basement: the site is flood-exposed)
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
- LANTA EBS stops at SouthSide Station by the Polk St Garage (731 spaces, opened 2023).
- About 202 LANTA weekday trips within 400 m (2022 timetable data).
Measured here
- Lines
- River Line — upgraded EBS core · Valley Express — bus option · River Line extension to Wind Creek
- Elevation
- 72 m (USGS 3DEP)
- 10-minute walk
- 121 ha · 760 buildings · 511 places
- LANTA today
- About 202 weekday trips within 400 m (2022 timetable)
- Future train access
- Sits on the rail-ready valley corridor at Third St / SteelStacks.
Still unknown
- Flood elevations (ground is indicatively 0.5–1.9 m below the 1942 record crest; datum and levee status unverified)
- Event-day traffic plans