It was built in 1984 as an elevated replacement of the previously ground-level Broadway Street station.

[2] Named in honor of local US Representative Adam Benjamin, Jr.,[3] who died in 1982, it serves as the central bus terminal and the Downtown Gary station on the South Shore Line.

The tracks of the former Baltimore and Ohio (now CSX) and New York Central Railroads (now Norfolk Southern) also lie near the station.

The station consists of a single elevated low-level island platform with mobile wheelchair lifts to allow passengers with disabilities to board and disembark.

[3] Gary Public Transportation Corporation Local Routes Regional Routes Greyhound Lines Gary station opened in 1908 as an inaugural stop along the new Chicago, Lake Shore and South Bend Railway; it was located at Broadway and Third.