PROJECT DESCRIPTION

Jones Worley teamed with long-time partner and prime architect Niles Bolton Associates to design signage and graphics for the new 10,327-square-foot Albany Transportation Center. The interior and exterior signage guides employees and ~600,000 passengers per year to and from a 12-bay transfer island, a Greyhound passenger terminal with two bus slips, a drivers’ break area, operations and dispatch facilities, and a public computer room.

The team aimed to pay tribute to the former Trailways bus terminal’s historic importance to the civil-rights movement in the city and preserve the area’s cultural characteristics. Jones Worley designed a mural above a lunch-counter replica to commemorate sit-in protests in the 1960’s. The agency also designed a bronze plaque at the center’s Ola Mae Quartimon-Clemons Plaza to honor Albany’s own Rosa Parks. Quartimon (often spelled Quarterman) was arrested in 1962 for refusing to sit in the back of a public bus.