 |
Re: Architectural Criticism: the Saddest Amtrak Stations
Author: Sarah Yevo's Boyfriend
Date: 02-12-2019 - 18:15
Erik H. Wrote:
-------------------------------------------------------
>
> As beautiful as the old stations are, if you want
> to attract today's passengers, you have to build
> stations for today. The insistence on hanging
> onto old, obsolete passenger station designs isn't
> helping Amtrak's case to becoming a transportation
> mode for tomorrow.
Just because a station is "old," that does not make it useless. Many modern European rail systems continue to use stations built in the 19th Century. In the United States, Grand Central Terminal continues to be a very effective and efficient rail passenger facility.
Let the old, glorious stations
> find a new use
Stations are inanimate objects and are not functionally able to find new uses for themselves. It takes citizen advocates, engineers, architects, urban planners, financiers and politicians to find new uses for stations.
like Cincinnati and St. Louis have
> done.
Amtrak continues to use Cincinnati Union Terminal.
-------------------------------------------------------
>
> As beautiful as the old stations are, if you want
> to attract today's passengers, you have to build
> stations for today. The insistence on hanging
> onto old, obsolete passenger station designs isn't
> helping Amtrak's case to becoming a transportation
> mode for tomorrow.
Just because a station is "old," that does not make it useless. Many modern European rail systems continue to use stations built in the 19th Century. In the United States, Grand Central Terminal continues to be a very effective and efficient rail passenger facility.
Let the old, glorious stations
> find a new use
Stations are inanimate objects and are not functionally able to find new uses for themselves. It takes citizen advocates, engineers, architects, urban planners, financiers and politicians to find new uses for stations.
like Cincinnati and St. Louis have
> done.
Amtrak continues to use Cincinnati Union Terminal.
