Freeway close: Harbor Gateway commuters are served by the 405, 110 and 91 freeways, which makes for relatively easy trips to downtown, Orange County, the harbor and the South Bay.
How it is treated depends in part on whether it is seen as a passageway through which commuters hurry or as a ceremonial gateway on the scale of the main concourse at Grand Central Terminal.
After all, it is no longer the "Gateway to a Continent" but a suburban commuter rail station.
The station, since 1991 home to a commuter line and several subway lines, was once the main gateway to the rest of the country.
When the Rip Van Winkle chugs out of Grand Central Terminal on Saturday night, the Beaux-Arts landmark -- which once billed itself as the gateway to a continent -- will turn into just another commuter station: the gateway to Pelham and Poughkeepsie.
Known as the Gateway Program, this project would greatly expand capacity for commuter and long-distance trains on the East Coast.
Tens of thousands of additional security workers are expected to be patrolling the streets, rooftops, trains, bridges and buses around the Garden, which sits atop the gateway to Manhattan for more than 100,000 New Jersey commuters every day: Pennsylvania Station.
The last of these has particular power in these commuter-heavy districts given the failure of Republican budgets to finance the Gateway tunnel between New Jersey and New York City.
"The M4 is the gateway to Wales, and this upgrade will bring clear benefits for both businesses and commuters, and enhance Wales' position on the global map".
Sorrento is the gateway to the coast for those arriving from the north, as we did on the Circumvesuviana commuter train out of Naples.
