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In the mid-twentieth century, the George Washington Bridge underwent significant changes. While the second deck was under construction, work began on a regional bus station, and the George Washington Bridge Bus Station opened on January 17, 1963, five months after the bridge's lower tower. It is one of few examples in America of the reinforced concrete buildings that made engineer Pier Luigi Nervi famous. Roughly 1,000 buses pass through the station daily. In the mid-1960s, civilians replaced Port Authority officers in tollbooths, and the all-female toll collectors, like the all-male police force before them, wore specially designed and tailored uniforms.

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