THE CONCOURSE TRANSFORMED

A linear park for residents: it belongs in the residential/pedestrian - rather than in the traffic - realm, yet also serves as a transit conduit

Healthy vegetation is promoted with trees planted outside the subway tunnel zone

The park is more secure because of its greater visibility and direct adjacency to the residential buildings

Courtyard entrances, a common Concourse typology, become extensions of the park and mediating zones between the public and private spheres

The park becomes an extended "front yard" for the buildings' residents

The presence of the median, currently a barrier between the two sides of the Concourse, is downplayed

The median is extended over the minor cross streets to reduce traffic and to emphasize continuity of the promenade