Posted on 03/04/2016 3:06:24 PM PST by Citizen Zed
Edited on 03/04/2016 3:37:31 PM PST by Sidebar Moderator. [history]
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(Excerpt) Read more at hindustantimes.com ...
@ $3.8 billion ...
Calandra a buildings are beautiful but they seem to be very similar. Milwaukee Museum of Art vs this Station. I’m not an expert.
Ping.....
Calatrava is a world class con-man. This is just the latest example of the taxpayers getting taken to the cleaners by him.
A government agency twice removed form the voters. They don’t give a fig. Had business once with the guy that ran PANYNJ. World Trade Center - 100th floor or something like that. Helicopters were flying BELOW where I was. Palatial chambers. Government is a scam. A total scam. Repeat - a total scam.
Personally, I don’t care what it cost, nor how much my taxes may have helped to pay for it. The structure is breathtakingly beautiful, and noble in concept. Bravo.
All of NY Penn Station was built in 1910 by a private company (the Pennsylvania Railroad) at a cost of $114 million in 1910, which is about $3 billion in 2016 dollars; including six tunnels (four under the East River and two under the Hudson River) and 21 tracks.
And now Amtrak wants to “expand” that station, plus add two more tunnels under the Hudson River, at first estimated to cost well over $11 billion but now has ballooned to an estimated $24 billion.
I looks like the rib cage of a great beast.
Should be toasty warm for the homeless to bed down for the night.
Also nice and cool in the summer.
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Question? Do we not have any architects in the US that could design this money pit? Jobs! Jobs! Jobs!
It’s ugly.
World’s most expensive train station? That is what you call a dubious honor. A type of distinction not heavily sought after. I would expect other countries to indulge in such obvious overspending. Countries like Saudi Arabia, China, cities like Dubai.
It’s ugly and garish. A momument to government waste for its own sake.
And now there’s a movement to rebuild it.
Well... Not quite. Although there are many who would like the present eyesore physically removed. ;-)
What is being promoted is the conversion of the Farley Post Office building (designed by the same architects as and sited across 8th Avenue from the original Penn Station - now containing the thing that now carries that name stuffed under Madison Square Garden) or most of it into the "New Penn Station" which has been named the Moynihan Station after the senator.
Apparently the initial phase of the plan is to relocate Amtrak platforms, access and ticketing/waiting rooms to this 'new' section. Future plans indicate a new trainshed and who knows what else. That complete repository of the entire knowledge of the universe that calls itself Wikipedia has the following article that is about as accurate as stuff on Wikipedia gets..
Pennsylvania Station (New York City)
Whatever and however they do it, it is guaranteed to cost way more than it cost The Standard Railroad of the World to build the original..
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