From the 2010 New York Public Transit Association Fall Conference & Trade Show.

1. Presented by Donald E. Gray, AIA, LEED, AP; Stephanie Goris, LEED AP;
Susan K. Sherwood, CP
Innovative Design Solutions for Urban Intermodal
Centers
Multi-level facilities and other BIG ideas!

2. Intro
 Who is Wendel?
 How can our experience help YOU as an OWNER?
 How is a GREAT team approach developed?
 What are the lessons learned to take
away from the BIG ideas?

3. How do we get people to take
Amtrak to visit Niagara Falls?
CHALLENGE

4. BIG IDEA
Move the train station!

7. If you have the
patience of Job you can
move “mountains!”

9. Build a project that started with a
study in 1986.
CHALLENGE

10. BIG IDEA
Incorporate the historic
Greyhound building façade
and bring back the Diner!

14. It’s not just a transit
project, it is an urban
revitalization- treat it
like one!

15. Historic fabric can
galvanize community
support!

16. How do we build an iconic County
Transportation Center for a VERY
MODEST budget?
CHALLENGE

17. BIG IDEA
Design a building with no
corridors, turn it into a
“diamond,” and give it state
of the art communications
amenities like an airport.

21. Never say the budget
isn’t big enough to do
something significant
and meaningful!

22. How do we make sure we are not
simply “rearranging the deck chairs
on the Titanic?”
CHALLENGE

23. BIG IDEA
Turn an existing one story
intermodal into a two level
intermodal.

26. Use two day design
charrettes held at
the owner’s location
so “BIG IDEAS” can
incubate!

28. Design a single, seamless
intermodal center for two
neighboring cities separated by an
existing, elevated railroad.
CHALLENGE

29. BIG IDEA
Carve away surface
landscape to activate and
connect two cities.

31. It’s not a barrier-
It’s a design feature!

33. What do you do when public and
political consensus picks a site that
is too small and has a 28 foot
grade change?
CHALLENGE

34. BIG IDEA
Close a city street for one
block and design a multi-level
intermodal that allows mixed
use development above!

39. Always reserve the
right to change your
mind.
And then CHANGE IT
when it is the right
thing to do!

40. Build a project that serves the
community as well as the transit
operation in a rural environment.
CHALLENGE

41. BIG IDEA
Combine “transit maintenance”
needs with “community” needs.

45. Who said a
maintenance facility
can’t also be a
community center?

46. Where do we locate a regional hub
intermodal center?
CHALLENGE

47. BIG IDEA
In a currently dilapidated and
unused historic train shed!

52. Even the best ideas
need to be
passionately sold to
the “naysayers.”

54. Design a new intermodal center on
a constrained triangular site
abutting residential and commercial
communities.
CHALLENGE

55. BIG IDEA
Design a two story facility
with three faces!

58. Make every square
INCH count!

59. Utilize a long, narrow, tapering site
with a one story grade change for a
new intermodal center adjacent to
an old historic train station.
CHALLENGE

60. BIG IDEA
Use the one story grade
change to integrate a parking
structure that supports the
intermodal center.

63. Integration of
parking can create a
seamless and
dynamic solution!