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Amtrak 30th Street Station Intermodal Gateway Parking Structure - Philadelphia, Pennsylvania The Intermodal Gateway parking garage, with 1,525-spaces, accommodates the parking demands of Amtrak’s 30th Street Station, as well as the Cira Centre and Philadelphia's busy commercial district. Philadelphia’s 30th Street Station on Amtrak’s Northeast Corridor handles over four million patrons annually for both local and long-distance rail travel, the second busiest on the AMTRAK system.  To accommodate these parking demands, as well as the proposed high-rise office building, TimHaahs designed the facility adjacent to the station. Bearing on steel H-piles straddling numerous on-grade utilities and tunnels, the ten tier precast garage has an overhead pedestrian bridge linking the garage elevator core to the station. With entry and exit to the facility at street (third) level, parkers will also have access to existing parking under the adjacent street and station via the lowest level of the garage. The Revenue Control System features a pay-on-foot operation that offers direct credit/debit card entry and exit. TimHaahs served as parking consultant/ superstructure engineer to prime designer Urban/ STV of Philadelphia. Bower Lewis Thrower, also of Philadelphia, is the project’s consulting architect. |