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1. A cross street station and interchange for use at a traffic artery intersection of a primary regional automotive traffic artery and a local automotive traffic artery and extending outward therefrom along the traffic artery to improve pedestrian and bicyclist traffic safety, increase the total number of pedestrian, bicycles, and community, metropolitan and regional transit trips, reduce the private passenger automotive vehicle miles traveled, and adapt to climate change with specific reference to sea level rise, the cross street station and interchange comprising:
(a) traffic calming highway improvements at a street level to reduce traffic speeds within the primary traffic artery as vehicles approach, pass through, and turn at the traffic artery intersection into the local traffic artery and reduce conflicts as between vehicular traffic and pedestrians and bicyclists crossing the primary traffic artery at the traffic artery intersection of the primary traffic artery and the local traffic artery; (b) traffic calming improvements at the street level to substantially reduce traffic speeds of cars, trucks, and community transit vehicles within the local traffic artery; (c) sidewalks adjacent the local traffic artery at the street level, widened to increase capacity for larger numbers of pedestrians to walk along sidewalks outward from the local traffic artery, one sidewalk is adjacent to an ingress traffic lane and another sidewalk is adjacent an egress traffic lane; (d) mixed-use and community destination buildings at the street level outward from the local traffic artery and said sidewalks to form a substantially continuous wall of structure, arcades and awnings; (e) landscape and hardscape within the sidewalk and integrated with the mixed-use and community destination buildings inclusive of decorative outdoor lighting to provide a partial sun shade for pedestrians during the day, illumination of pedestrian pathways during the night, and seating during the day or night; (f) an archway with associated support elements, adjacent said traffic artery intersection and supporting the lobby and regional mass transit platform at an upper level and having a dimension sufficient to accommodate a community transit vehicle and other automotive traffic upon said local traffic artery passing underneath the archway and within the archway support elements, a community transit boarding and disembarking area and adjacent vertical transport structures including an elevator, escalator and interior staircase; (g) a lobby at the upper level above and spanning the archway and its support elements, including a mix of retail uses associated with daily needs of the traveling public, regional mass transit ticketing facilities, and a regional mass transit waiting area extending onto a regional mass transit platform; (h) a regional mass transit platform having a central platform section for newly ticketed passengers boarding regional mass transit and two ramp platform sections extending outwardly from the central platform section for passengers disembarking from regional mass transit at the cross street station and interchange to the sidewalks outward from the local traffic artery in which all three platform sections span across the local traffic artery to the sidewalks on each side of the local traffic artery and in which the regional mass transit platform, initially located at an upper level of the cross street station and interchange adjacent the lobby and used for placement of newly ticketed regional mass transit boarding passengers on the regional mass transit platform, is selectably lowered to the street level at the height elevation of the regional mass transit vehicle floor upon arrival of a regional mass transit vehicle at the most outward lane of the primary traffic artery, designated for the regional mass transit vehicle to stop between two pedestrian crossing areas themselves demarked by crossing indicia that cross primary traffic artery; (i) a boarding and disembarking area for local community transit services at the street level located at the height elevation of the adjacent sidewalks and furthest away from the primary traffic artery while remaining under the archway and adjacent its support elements, immediately adjacent an ingress traffic lane within the local traffic artery at which the community transit vehicle is demarked to stop; (j) a further boarding and disembarking area for local community transit services at the street level located at the elevation of the adjacent sidewalks and furthest away from the traffic artery intersection while remaining under the archway and adjacent the support elements, immediately adjacent an egress traffic lane within the local traffic artery where the community transit vehicle is demarked to stop; (k) a boarding and disembarking area for metropolitan mass transit vehicles at the street level located at the height elevation of the adjacent sidewalks and just before entering the traffic artery intersection such that it is immediately adjacent the area within the outward lane of the primary traffic artery closest to the substantially residential community area demarked for metropolitan mass transit vehicles to stop and before reaching the primary of two pedestrian crossing areas demarked by indicia across the primary traffic artery; (l) a yet further boarding and disembarking area for metropolitan mass transit vehicles at the street level on the other side of the primary traffic artery and traffic artery interchange from said boarding and disembarking area for metropolitan mass transit located at the height elevation of the adjacent sidewalks and just before entering the traffic artery intersection immediately adjacent the area within the outward lane of the primary traffic artery closest to a commercial or university campus community area demarked for metropolitan mass transit vehicles to stop and before reaching the primary of two pedestrian crossing areas themselves demarked by indicia across the primary traffic artery; and (m) when said regional mass transit platform, and vertical transport structures and equipment are not located on both sides of the primary traffic artery, a pedestrian bridge across the primary traffic artery, having one end of said pedestrian bridge at said upper level and from which pedestrians may either directly enter or leave the lobby and proceed to the street level using said vertical transport structures and equipment or the regional mass transit platform and may also use other stairs, escalators and elevators or ramps to facilitate migration from the opposite end of the pedestrian bridge after crossing the primary traffic artery to the street level; 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