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Wind Creek

Served first via Third St and the existing EBS Green Line; River Line extension only if demand

Evaluated destination · extension only if demand (Phase 1)

Typology: Employment / events

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

Locator map of Wind Creek and the lines around it
  • 7Third Street / SteelStacks
  • WCWind Creek

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

The measured walk from 3rd & Polk is 1,666 m (~21 min) — too far to count as station access. But Wind Creek is already the EBS Green Line terminus, so no duplicate station is proposed now.

Ideas if pursued (to study)

  • Timed River Line ↔ Green Line transfer at Third St
  • Greenway lighting and wayfinding
  • Shift-change trips tested with Wind Creek
  • River Line extension (+1.46 km) only if demand supports it

What exists today

  • Existing LANTA EBS Green Line terminus.
Map of Third Street, SteelStacks and the walk to Wind Creek (opens the full-size image)
Third St / SteelStacks and the measured 1,666 m walk to Wind Creek. Bethlehem Commons is a separate project with its own status (site to be decided); it could connect here as an option. Shaded areas mark station areas, not sites.

Measured here

Lines
Valley Express — bus option · River Line extension to Wind Creek
Elevation
79 m (USGS 3DEP)
Future train access
Sits on the rail-ready valley corridor at Wind Creek.
Stop option nearby
South Bethlehem (City parkland): an optional stop on the Valley Express, 2.33 km from here, only if a separately proposed park is built

Still unknown

  • Late-night demand and employer pass interest

Place sheet v1.5 · 22 October 2026 · website-five-tau-72.vercel.app/files/places/wind-creek.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.