About the Project

Bethel Village Station, on the Red Line, is in the municipality of Bethel Park and currently serves a limited population due to inaccessibility. PRT, alongside local partners, will be redesigning the station to improve accessibility at the station itself as well as connections to surrounding assets. The plan will also improve station design by making PRT facilities more comfortable, easier to use, more sustainable, and more attractive. The final product of this plan will be the 10% conceptual design for a new Bethel Village Station that improves access and raises the profile of this community asset.

Update

April 2025: We have just started our first round of community engagement, where we are looking to collect input on the proposed station area improvements. To see what is proposed, please click on each of the dots on the map below for a short description of the proposed improvement. After viewing the proposed improvements, please scroll down to view draft renderings of the station and answer a few questions to tell us what you think!

These projects are funded by the Federal Transit Authority's All Stations Accessibility Program (ASAP). This program was established to make legacy transit stations accessible for the first time. PRT received a total of $36.4 million to support accessibility improvements to the following Red Line stations:

  • Westfield*
  • Shiras*
  • St Anne*
  • Bethel Village*
  • Palm Garden
  • Dawn
  • Hampshire
  • Stevenson
  • Poplar
  • Arlington
  • Smith Road
  • Casswell
  • Highland
  • Dorchester

*These stations will be converted into fully-accessible high platform stations. The others will receive more limited upgrades but will still have level boarding with rail vehicles.

This project addresses the following values from PRT’s long-range transportation plan, NEXTransit, adopted in 2021.

  • Accessible: infrastructure is fully available in every way to those with specific needs, such as physical or mental disabilities, those traveling with infants or small children, and those traveling with groceries or other goods.
  • Equitable: the project not only ensures the fair provision of services to those with limited means or higher risk, but affirmatively acts to better the services offered to these groups in an effort to combat historical and environmental imbalances in the community.
  • Sustainable: the project enhances the health of communities and the natural environment through its design and operations with regard to energy use, water use, raw material use, land use, and waste production.

PRT’s approach to station area planning:

  • Station access: Making it easier and safer for people to get to the station and prioritizing upgrades that make the station accessible for all riders.
  • Station design: Making PRT facilities more comfortable and easier to use.
  • Transit-Oriented Development (TOD) feasibility: Coordinating with municipalities and other partners to determine community goals for building projects adjacent to the station and how these projects can be best integrate transit access.

Proposed Bethel Village Station Area Improvements

Click on a 'hotspot' on the map to learn more about each of the proposed improvements.

Bethel Village Station Draft Conceptual Designs

Scroll through to see the draft conceptual designs for Bethel Village Station. The yellow areas on the images depict areas that can be accessed by riders and pedestrians, i.e. station plaza, pedestrian walkways, station platforms.

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16 April, 2025

Lucas says:

Was at the meeting on 4/16. Station renderings look great, this should address many of the accessibility issues at both stations.

Public Engagement Events

Our first round of community engagement will feature pop-up events and an online public meeting. We hope to see you there!

Timeline

  • Timeline item 1 - complete

    August 2024

    The PRT team had their internal project kick off

  • Timeline item 2 - complete

    December 2024

    The first stakeholder meeting will be held

  • Timeline item 3 - complete

    January 2025

    Initial design concepts developed for station area improvements

  • Timeline item 4 - complete

    March 2025

    The second stakeholder meeting will be held

  • Timeline item 5 - active

    April 2025

    First round of public engagement will be held

  • Timeline item 6 - incomplete

    May 2025

    Draft 10% conceptual design will be completed and the second round of public engagement will be held

  • Timeline item 7 - incomplete

    June 2025

    The station area plan will be complete

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