Hopefully there's a future where we build train stations like this in places that aren't Midtown Manhattan

  • spectre [he/him]
    hexagon
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    4 years ago

    Lmaoo of course they leave all that out of their segment. I'm just a dumb outsider who saw the video and though "neat train hall, let's see what the NYC folks actually think about it" and here we are lol

    • thethirdgracchi [he/him, they/them]
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      4 years ago

      Yup, it's all shiny and no actual usability. But that's par for the course with these kind of projects—they're more for lining the pockets of the contractors than the actual commuters. We'd have been much better off spending the $1.6 billion we spent to build this mostly useless train hall and instead just improve/clean some subway stations, or hell even just install elevators in some more subway stations. Spend the money electrifying the non-electrified parts of Metro North past Croton-Harmon. Or even finally retire the R32s still being used on the subway (that are from 1964!!!!). Lots of things to spend money on that doesn't involve building a shiny new train station that doesn't solve any problem that currently exists.