The George Washington Bridge Bus Station is a commuter bus terminal located at the east end of the George Washington Bridge in the Washington Heights area of Manhattan in New York City, New York. The bus station is owned and operated by the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey. According to the Port Authority's website, on a typical weekday, approximately 17,000 passengers on about 950 buses use the bus station. In June 2011, the agency announced plans for a major renovation of the terminal, costing $180 million in public and private funds.
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People talk of situations,
Read books, repeat quotations,
Draw conclusions on the wall.”
—Bob Dylan [Robert Allen Zimmerman] (b. 1941)
“Political life at Washington is like political life in a suburban vestry.”
—Oscar Wilde (1854–1900)
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—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
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So he carefully spat on the ceiling.”
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