@ $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.
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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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.