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Someone was really reaching to find meaningless superlatives. Wouldn't it be better to compare this station to stations handling similar passenger numbers? I
by alaxsxaq 9y ago
Someone was really reaching to find meaningless superlatives. Wouldn't it be better to compare this station to stations handling similar passenger numbers?
I frequently use Penn Station, Union Station (DC), and 30th Street Station (Philadelphia). All of them are overloaded, but things like waiting areas, bathrooms, food, ticketing aren't really that much worse in Penn Station. Aesthetics, on the other hand...
- icegreentea2 9y agoI think it's fine. While the article spends some time talking about how shitty looking Penn Station is, I felt like it delivered its emphasis on how the actual transit part of it is slow motion dying. Like tunnels literally creeping towards collapse. The comparison to airports I think is fine for envisioning scale in an American context. Like all of the station level stuff is important, but I felt like the article was more of a plea to make sure that we'd at least fix the actual track and tunnel level problems before NYC gets strangled.
- ghaff 9y agoYeah, and there have been and continue to be ongoing improvements in the layout and general rundownedness of the concourses. I was pleasantly surprised the last time I was there. Would I like to snap my fingers and conjure up old Penn Station to replace the soulless crap built on Penn Station's air rights? Sure, who wouldn't. But the crumbling infrastructure (to say nothing of the crowded platforms underground, etc.) is the bigger problem.