Trump admin takes over Union Station

[Anonymous]

Association clean functioning infrastructure with fascism doesn't send the message you think it might. Note how, whether they will admit it or not, people became a lot more ok with fascism over the last 5 years.

[Anonymous]

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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.

I have gone to Union Station 5 days a week for years because I work nearby. You are a total pu$$y if you think it is unsafe. You are a total drama queen too. Just stay out of DC, it too much for you. 🙄

It's OK. We know you have trailer park expectations. DC sure seems to be the stomping groups for a gutter class of people who enjoy the scenery of strung out junkies on their way to work, and who enjoy wallowing in utterly filthy bathrooms at the station after strolling by a whole bunch of boarded up and abandoned shops.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

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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.

Tokyo Station has something like 6x the passenger count per day. Plus Tokyo Station is nearby to Ginza, one of the most popular shopping districts in the world, and on the other side, one of the most consequential business districts in the world. What the hell does Union Station have to compete with any of that? You can't have a Tokyo Station in Washington DC no matter how much you want it.

All I hear are excuses. It doesnt have to be Tokyo Station, the point is that it should be nice *like Tokyo Station*. Actually, your stats show how pathetic we are. The fact that Japan can have their capital station serve 6x the number of people per day and not have it look like a trash dump shows you how crappy we've become.

If the US is #1, then why are our standards so low and borderline third world? It should be EASIER to have a nice train station that is clean and safe *because* we only have to serve 6x fewer number of people that Japan does in its capital city main train station.

Clean up Union Station. It is a trash hole and a disgrace. It's so sad to see so many abandoned shops and urban decay in our country's capital city main station.

Well you see republicans hate mass transportation. So they have defunded for over 40 years. This is why the US infrastructure is so pathetic. It is republicans’ fault.

Now Trump and idiots like you think the US military will improve it. What the f are you thinking?

[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.

I'm there daily and it's fine. Not dangerous, not "an open sewer."
Is it a shopping center with good retail options? No. It's a transit hub. It has fast food and gift shops for the people killing an hour between trains.

[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.

I have gone to Union Station 5 days a week for years because I work nearby. You are a total pu$$y if you think it is unsafe. You are a total drama queen too. Just stay out of DC, it too much for you. 🙄

It's OK. We know you have trailer park expectations. DC sure seems to be the stomping groups for a gutter class of people who enjoy the scenery of strung out junkies on their way to work, and who enjoy wallowing in utterly filthy bathrooms at the station after strolling by a whole bunch of boarded up and abandoned shops.

You seem really obsessed with empty storefronts. Do you think a military takeover = commercial tenants? Aren't you the free market people? (LOL, kidding, I know you hate a free market)

[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.

I don't think you've been there in a while. I was just there picking up my kids from a NYC trip and it was a lot better than it was even just a year or so ago. There are new shops opening up, they've created a nice passenger waiting room, and got rid of the chairs by the gates.

[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.

I'm there daily and it's fine. Not dangerous, not "an open sewer."
Is it a shopping center with good retail options? No. It's a transit hub. It has fast food and gift shops for the people killing an hour between trains.

Clearly you've never been anywhere nice in your life. The station is dumpsville USA. Why do Americans have expectations that are in the gutter. Train stations across the world are transit hubs where people may be for an hour or less, so? Go see how much better they are than dumpy Union Station.

[Anonymous]

I agree that several of you don't seem to have actual knowledge of Union Station. I was just there on Monday night returning from NYC around 9pm. I am a woman and was traveling alone. It was fine. I was also there earlier this year to travel to NYC and it was fine then, too. Ditto for last year.

This is nothing more than another power grab by Trump. It would be refreshing if he actually focused his efforts on things in this country that need intervention.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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.

I don't think you've been there in a while. I was just there picking up my kids from a NYC trip and it was a lot better than it was even just a year or so ago. There are new shops opening up, they've created a nice passenger waiting room, and got rid of the chairs by the gates.

I was at Union Station back in March. Before even being able to enter into the station you were slammed in the face with plumes of weed smoke. Then there were multiple instances of being harassed by homeless junkies for money. Once inside, I went to bluebottle to pay for overpriced coffee, however, the counters were filthy and there was debris everywhere. Walk to the trains and there is just grime and filth everywhere. Trash strewn on the floors. The best part was going to the bathrooms. A homless guy who reeked to high heaven and who was out of his mind walks out of the stall with his pants down. I had no idea humans were capable of smelling like that. The cherry on top is of course having the train 34 minutes delayed because nothing ever runs on time.

Just a nasty, gross station that needs a deep steam clean from top to bottom.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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.

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.

Tokyo Station has something like 6x the passenger count per day. Plus Tokyo Station is nearby to Ginza, one of the most popular shopping districts in the world, and on the other side, one of the most consequential business districts in the world. What the hell does Union Station have to compete with any of that? You can't have a Tokyo Station in Washington DC no matter how much you want it.

All I hear are excuses. It doesnt have to be Tokyo Station, the point is that it should be nice *like Tokyo Station*. Actually, your stats show how pathetic we are. The fact that Japan can have their capital station serve 6x the number of people per day and not have it look like a trash dump shows you how crappy we've become.

If the US is #1, then why are our standards so low and borderline third world? It should be EASIER to have a nice train station that is clean and safe *because* we only have to serve 6x fewer number of people that Japan does in its capital city main train station.

Clean up Union Station. It is a trash hole and a disgrace. It's so sad to see so many abandoned shops and urban decay in our country's capital city main station.

Because for decades Republicans with constituents in rural districts have voted to make our country like the third world by eradicating or defunding government efforts in infrastructure, education, healthcare, science, and housing. It’s literally happening right now with the “Big Beautiful Bill” and DOGE.

Trump’s haphazard “takeovers” of various public spaces are similar to the propaganda efforts by other dictators and will have similar lousy results. This isn’t about improvement or efficiency or data-driven decision making, it’s about pasting his picture all over the place and pleasing his fans.

[Anonymous]

Also, does no one remember Republican reactions to Obama’s infrastructure plans and how enraged they were over trains?

[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.

I have gone to Union Station 5 days a week for years because I work nearby. You are a total pu$$y if you think it is unsafe. You are a total drama queen too. Just stay out of DC, it too much for you. 🙄

It's OK. We know you have trailer park expectations. DC sure seems to be the stomping groups for a gutter class of people who enjoy the scenery of strung out junkies on their way to work, and who enjoy wallowing in utterly filthy bathrooms at the station after strolling by a whole bunch of boarded up and abandoned shops.

Oh, yes, the maga Cracker Barrel cousins are the ones we should be taking direction from.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Association clean functioning infrastructure with fascism doesn't send the message you think it might. Note how, whether they will admit it or not, people became a lot more ok with fascism over the last 5 years.

I’d guess if you are dumb enough to not see the parallels you aren’t really worth much consideration, are you?

More scum that’s more concerned about the trains running on time.

[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.

If you don't live here and talk out of your ass, just SFTU.

[Anonymous]

I take the train from Union station at least a dozen times a year. Maybe more. I was there this morning.

It's yucky and dingy. The homeless people and panhandlers have to go. The bathrooms are revolting.