Trump admin takes over Union Station

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Good.

Union Station is a filthy, God awful dump. It is unsafe. It is a national embarrassment that our nation's capital train station looks like a filthy open sewer.

Clean that garbage heap up, get rid of all of the junkies, and make it safe to ride again.

Go through there every day. You couldn't be more full of shit. Find another way to justify your fascist tendencies.

Someone needs a new glasses presciption. The bathrooms are gross and filthy. Junkies and panhandlers are everywhere inside and outside. It is unsafe for smaller women traveling alone. So many trashy stores or vacant spaces. Just a garbage trash hole that is a national disgrace.

Awwww look at big MAGA man protecting small women. Well you’re responding to one who is 4.11 and I don’t need you to tell me what it looks like or to pretend you’re protecting me when you take my freedoms away. I value not living in a dictatorship like you’d have us do. Again, what red state hell hole are you posting from?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It had really fallen apart. I remember when they did a big renovation back in the late 80s'/early 90s. There were so many shops and great places to eat. We'd go as a family (I was a kid at the time) just to have dinner there.

We took our kids there a few months ago since we had an Amtrak to NYC. So many vacant storefronts, and not much on offer at all. The place has really declined. I don't know who to blame, but whatever they had been trying to do to fix it wasn't working.

Amtrak already announced months ago the whole revitalization plan. They, like DC, did not need Trump.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Good.

Union Station is a filthy, God awful dump. It is unsafe. It is a national embarrassment that our nation's capital train station looks like a filthy open sewer.

Clean that garbage heap up, get rid of all of the junkies, and make it safe to ride again.

Oh look the maga dummy has entered the chat.

If you think this is why he's taking it over you have zero brain cells and are anti-American and a communists.

I’m very liberal and actually agree with this.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If this isn't concerning to you at all, you are part of the problem.

I am as anti-Trump as anyone, but this is one of the few times where getting the ownership of the station clarified will be a bonus for whoever comes after so the long awaited new station can be built behind it and help bind NOMA and the Hill together.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Good.

Union Station is a filthy, God awful dump. It is unsafe. It is a national embarrassment that our nation's capital train station looks like a filthy open sewer.

Clean that garbage heap up, get rid of all of the junkies, and make it safe to ride again.

Oh look the maga dummy has entered the chat.

If you think this is why he's taking it over you have zero brain cells and are anti-American and a communists.

I’m very liberal and actually agree with this.

Sure you are 🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Good.

Union Station is a filthy, God awful dump. It is unsafe. It is a national embarrassment that our nation's capital train station looks like a filthy open sewer.

Clean that garbage heap up, get rid of all of the junkies, and make it safe to ride again.

It isn't filty.
It isn't a dump.
It isn't unsafe.

I take it you haven't been there since 1976.

It is better than some of the train stations I have been in Europe in recent months and years.

[Anonymous]

I am not a fan of Union Station in its current state, but don't think this step was either necessary or the answer.

[Anonymous]

When is he going to pick up the dog doody on my front lawn that's been there for three days now?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Good.

Union Station is a filthy, God awful dump. It is unsafe. It is a national embarrassment that our nation's capital train station looks like a filthy open sewer.

Clean that garbage heap up, get rid of all of the junkies, and make it safe to ride again.

Oh look the maga dummy has entered the chat.

If you think this is why he's taking it over you have zero brain cells and are anti-American and a communists.

How to tell us you're pro-junkies without telling us you're pro-junkies. You guys had your way for years in cities like DC, Chicago, San Fran, Portland, Seattle, NYC, etc. People are sick and tired of the decay and rot unchecked liberal policies have brought to what were once beautiful American urban centers. That's why you're now out lf office.

Clean that cesspool out that is known as Union Station.

DP who is "us" comrade? You and your maga collective? You f#$'ers are straight up Communist.

[Anonymous]

He is doing such a great job being a president and now he has so much free time on his hand that he can pay attention to trash on DC streets?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It had really fallen apart. I remember when they did a big renovation back in the late 80s'/early 90s. There were so many shops and great places to eat. We'd go as a family (I was a kid at the time) just to have dinner there.

We took our kids there a few months ago since we had an Amtrak to NYC. So many vacant storefronts, and not much on offer at all. The place has really declined. I don't know who to blame, but whatever they had been trying to do to fix it wasn't working.

Amtrak already announced months ago the whole revitalization plan. They, like DC, did not need Trump.

Now you made me look it up. Amtrak took over in July 2024. They did some minor improvements.

Then there's a 13-year $8.8billion "Second Centry Plan" that looks great, managed by Amtrak and Union Station Redevelopment Corp (USRC). It seems ambitious and pricey:
https://www.axios.com/newsletters/axios-dc-95402e30-acc9-11ef-9771-23bbcd6b19e1

The announcment today is that Amtrak will run the rail side of the station; then USRC will run the retail side, along with DOT.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I am not a fan of Union Station in its current state, but don't think this step was either necessary or the answer.

Too bad the money that could fix it up is going to Israel.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It had really fallen apart. I remember when they did a big renovation back in the late 80s'/early 90s. There were so many shops and great places to eat. We'd go as a family (I was a kid at the time) just to have dinner there.

We took our kids there a few months ago since we had an Amtrak to NYC. So many vacant storefronts, and not much on offer at all. The place has really declined. I don't know who to blame, but whatever they had been trying to do to fix it wasn't working.

Amtrak already announced months ago the whole revitalization plan. They, like DC, did not need Trump.

Now you made me look it up. Amtrak took over in July 2024. They did some minor improvements.

Then there's a 13-year $8.8billion "Second Centry Plan" that looks great, managed by Amtrak and Union Station Redevelopment Corp (USRC). It seems ambitious and pricey:
https://www.axios.com/newsletters/axios-dc-95402e30-acc9-11ef-9771-23bbcd6b19e1

The announcment today is that Amtrak will run the rail side of the station; then USRC will run the retail side, along with DOT.

If anything it should be the opposite.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It had really fallen apart. I remember when they did a big renovation back in the late 80s'/early 90s. There were so many shops and great places to eat. We'd go as a family (I was a kid at the time) just to have dinner there.

We took our kids there a few months ago since we had an Amtrak to NYC. So many vacant storefronts, and not much on offer at all. The place has really declined. I don't know who to blame, but whatever they had been trying to do to fix it wasn't working.

Yup. 1000%.

It's funny, because we just got back from Japan. Tokyo Station is absolutely mind warping. So many gourmet places to eat. Everything is immaculately clean. Insanely safe. You would go out of your way just to go to the train station to spend money. Everything is on time.

Union Station is probably 100 tiers lower than Tokyo Station. You're tell me the mighty USA with the world's #1 economy and sole remaining super power cannot do better than that sorry dump we have for a capital train station known as Union Station? There is absolutely zero excuse why we can't have a Tokyo Station.

The excuse is that the US doesn't care about infrastructure. Everything is just about corporations/private equity extracting every possible dollar from everything they can. Only plebs use trains, dontchaknow. The people in charge use black car/helicopter/private jet.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It had really fallen apart. I remember when they did a big renovation back in the late 80s'/early 90s. There were so many shops and great places to eat. We'd go as a family (I was a kid at the time) just to have dinner there.

We took our kids there a few months ago since we had an Amtrak to NYC. So many vacant storefronts, and not much on offer at all. The place has really declined. I don't know who to blame, but whatever they had been trying to do to fix it wasn't working.

Yup. 1000%.

It's funny, because we just got back from Japan. Tokyo Station is absolutely mind warping. So many gourmet places to eat. Everything is immaculately clean. Insanely safe. You would go out of your way just to go to the train station to spend money. Everything is on time.

Union Station is probably 100 tiers lower than Tokyo Station. You're tell me the mighty USA with the world's #1 economy and sole remaining super power cannot do better than that sorry dump we have for a capital train station known as Union Station? There is absolutely zero excuse why we can't have a Tokyo Station.

Americans would rather sit in traffic for 2 hours than ride a train to work.