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.
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.
We could get that 80% less polluting number up to like 95% with fully electrified rail...
Yeah, but think of the poor construction companies that need to eat! Surely a train station is more important.