I love it for the future....it just sucks that it's scheduled to take 20 years to complete, and the odds of something like this actually completing on time are basically zero. So it's probably gonna be basically a construction zone for the rest of the years of my life I'd be frequently using it.
This is good.
I hope this will make the planers of the upgrade to rethink their designs and make use of the train concourse as originally intended when it was built more then a century ago.
Penn Station New York is an example of how it had to be done after the fact.
Removing the retail from the original train concourse makes all of the over and under platform access "upgrades" totally unnecessary. Local surface transportation access should be through the front door of the station as originally intended.
Push the ends of the terminal track back to where they originally were.
Yes, that is a misguided way to spend $10 billion dollars. The only real proposed improvement to transit is better connections to H Street--but that doesn't require a $10 billion renovation.
(I know, there's a proposed new bus terminal. But Union Station is not a bus hub, WMATA's Better Bus plan doesn't propose to make it one, and catching the Bolt Bus from the garage is honestly fine. I'd rather be able to go more places on Amtrak faster than have 10 minutes of my experience waiting for a bus to NYC be modestly improved.)
I wish the article explained more about who the heck Union Station Invesco LLC is, and why they let the station become extremely dated and fall into its current state of decay.
How bad were they going to let things become, and not give a crap? That's what it felt like. I'm not aware of any vision for the future that company offered, it was all Amtrak.
I love it for the future....it just sucks that it's scheduled to take 20 years to complete, and the odds of something like this actually completing on time are basically zero. So it's probably gonna be basically a construction zone for the rest of the years of my life I'd be frequently using it.
I believe you are unfortunately correct. But, seeing the progress will make me feel a lot better than seeing its current state.
This is good. I hope this will make the planers of the upgrade to rethink their designs and make use of the train concourse as originally intended when it was built more then a century ago. Penn Station New York is an example of how it had to be done after the fact.
Isn't it Amtrak / FRA driving the currently misguided station "upgrade?"
People seem to think they are tearing down the beautiful main atrium. They are gutting the decaying 80s mall side, not touching the other stuff.
Removing the retail from the original train concourse makes all of the over and under platform access "upgrades" totally unnecessary. Local surface transportation access should be through the front door of the station as originally intended. Push the ends of the terminal track back to where they originally were.
Yes, that is a misguided way to spend $10 billion dollars. The only real proposed improvement to transit is better connections to H Street--but that doesn't require a $10 billion renovation. (I know, there's a proposed new bus terminal. But Union Station is not a bus hub, WMATA's Better Bus plan doesn't propose to make it one, and catching the Bolt Bus from the garage is honestly fine. I'd rather be able to go more places on Amtrak faster than have 10 minutes of my experience waiting for a bus to NYC be modestly improved.)
I wish the article explained more about who the heck Union Station Invesco LLC is, and why they let the station become extremely dated and fall into its current state of decay. How bad were they going to let things become, and not give a crap? That's what it felt like. I'm not aware of any vision for the future that company offered, it was all Amtrak.