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[VIDEO] Inside the redesign of Penn Station |
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Posted by Bill Newkirk on Wed Jun 17 15:48:16 2026 |
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Posted by Mitch45 on Wed Jun 17 16:43:54 2026, in response to [VIDEO] Inside the redesign of Penn Station, posted by Bill Newkirk on Wed Jun 17 15:48:16 2026. The anchor is having a hard time keeping a straight face. He knows it will never be built. |
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Posted by Steve B-8AVEXP on Wed Jun 17 18:30:02 2026, in response to Re: [VIDEO] Inside the redesign of Penn Station, posted by Mitch45 on Wed Jun 17 16:43:54 2026. Time to cue up Steve Allen laughing uncontrollably. |
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Posted by Jackson Park B Train on Wed Jun 17 19:43:53 2026, in response to Re: [VIDEO] Inside the redesign of Penn Station, posted by Steve B-8AVEXP on Wed Jun 17 18:30:02 2026. nah, once the appropriate graft and grift are set up, it will outdo the existing SAS in delays and cost overruns. IMHO no plan not including evicting MSG is worth the paper drawn on. |
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Posted by irtredbirdr33 on Thu Jun 18 09:23:18 2026, in response to [VIDEO] Inside the redesign of Penn Station, posted by Bill Newkirk on Wed Jun 17 15:48:16 2026. Bill: I remember when they tore down toe old Penn Station. What was left was a glorified tunnel and a non-stop construction job for the past 60 years. The only real improvement would be to tear down Madison Square Garden and start over. Larry, RedbirdR33 |
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Posted by Fisk Ave Jim on Thu Jun 18 10:59:57 2026, in response to Re: [VIDEO] Inside the redesign of Penn Station, posted by irtredbirdr33 on Thu Jun 18 09:23:18 2026. I too remember as a kid walking thru the original Penn Sta with my parents. It was dark & eerie. The concrete pillars were desperately in need of a steam cleaning. At the time the PRR owner was broke. They couldn't afford to maintain it & make any effort to make riders feel comfortable. The mindset at the time is that the long distance train was on borrowed time so such a grandiose station was not needed.So they got big bucks for the air rights and the rest is history as they say |
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Posted by Spider-Pig on Thu Jun 18 11:20:11 2026, in response to Re: [VIDEO] Inside the redesign of Penn Station, posted by Mitch45 on Wed Jun 17 16:43:54 2026. You're one of those people who always says "it won't be built" to everything even when it's entirely likely it'll be built.Although they're definitely going to renovate Penn Station at some point, it likely won't be this design. |
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Posted by Olog-hai on Thu Jun 18 13:19:33 2026, in response to Re: [VIDEO] Inside the redesign of Penn Station, posted by Fisk Ave Jim on Thu Jun 18 10:59:57 2026. GCT was dark and eerie before it was cleaned up in the 1990s. It's overdue for another such cleaning; the ceiling looks better in blue than in dirty green. Nobody questions the "need" for such a station, even though all of the long-distance service is gone from there and it's solely for commuter trains now.And why did long-distance trains "go away"? Draconian regulation and taxation that made it too expensive for private companies to run them, plus the selfsame regulations that made it too expensive to develop high-speed rail—even though there were several attempts to do so. |
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