This project's goal is to bring subway access to LaGuardia Airport from New York City. The current alternative being investigated extends the existing "N" subway line to LaGuardia Airport. WNB+A, as part of a Consortium comprised of Parsons Transportation Group, URS Greiner, and Federic R. Harris, is responsible for all of the architectural design for this study, as well as the on-airport planning. The design considerations include: station designs and alignment alternatives that would have the least impact on existing airport operations, providing first class level of passenger service, and integration with the functional and aesthetic environment of the airport.
 
   
The $40 million rehabilitation of the Queens Plaza Station focuses on four primary objectives: the need to provide access for the elderly and the disabled to all levels of the station; the need to consolidate the disparate NYCT spaces and service rooms; the need to implement comprehensive rehabilitation of the station finishes and services in conformance to the latest NYCT Design Guidelines; and the need to identify underutilized areas of the mezzanine, passageways, and platforms, to create a more efficient and safe customer environment.
 
 
   
 
Newark Pennsylvania Station, built in 1932, is on the National Register of Historic Places. It is used by Amtrak Northeast Corridor trains on the Boston-Washington mainline, by New Jersey Transit commuter trains, PATH trains to Journal Square and New York, by Newark Subway, long distance, commuter and local buses, and local taxis. The project encompassed the rehabilitation and restoration of the historic main waiting room and ticket rooms, the rehabilitation of station concourses, installation of escalators to the platforms, restoration of platform waiting areas, the rehabilitation of train shed roof and skylights, facade restoration, and new signage and passenger information systems.
 
   
The East Side Access (ESA) project will be the first step in a long overdue integration of the region's magnificent web of mass transit facilities. It will ease railand pedestrian congestion in New York's Penn Station and will provide direct travel between Long Island and Manhattan's East Side. It will also reduce automobile traffic on the Long Island Expressway and other roads, thereby improving air quality in the region. It is anticipated that overall, 162,000 riders
will travel to and from Grand Central Terminal on an average weekday, and overall daily ridership to and from Penn Station will be approximately 161,000.