In the event you enjoy reading immeasurably long missives about how Penn Station could, should, would be redone, here's another report I found by the University of Pennsylvania's (yeah, Pennsylvania) School of Design. At 226 pages I just briefly flipped through it for the pictures, but just in the event you have a 26-hour long flight to the other side of the world coming up and nothing to occupy your time, here is the report in full:
[[If you can't read the embedded document for some reason, you can read it directly on Issuu's website here.]]
As with the other report they try to make a case for a glorified Penn Station without really paying attention to some of the real-life factors inhibiting its expansion (space, financing, etc.). But like the other report, it's interesting to flip through on the train ride home if you've got nothing better to do.
I see Penn Design is still intent on running next gen HSR through Long Island.
ReplyDeleteDown the Main Line, which MTA can't get past 3rd track NIMBY's, or even Floral Park's mayor, or the old Central RR of LI through Garden City and Levittown. Good luck with that.
ReplyDeleteI got a kick out of the Harrisburg-Boston via the Inland Route routing. A direction change at PHL and an engine change at NHV...now you're just asking for trouble!
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Their New Penn Station design is actually pretty decent. I think i'd rather keep the current penn station over some of the horrendous modern architecture nightmares such as the "Toilet Bowl" design that have been presented in the past.
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