Trump admin takes over Union Station

[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.

Yes!

[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.

My youngest now lives in Japan. He says same thing Loves it

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:To be perfectly honest, the station had dramatically been improved since Amtrak took control a year ago. But it was really, really bad from 2021 to early 2024.

Agree. My work means I commute via train to nyc frequently (often on the early morning or evening trains) and it has been way better for the last year. It was probably at its worst 3-4 years ago.

[Anonymous]

I am at Union station every day. It is fine. Just fine. I don't expect Tokyo. It is America and we are hopeless. Based on that standard, it is fine.

Sorry but we will never be like Asia. It is not a Republican vs Democrat thing. It is a collective society vs individualist society thing. It is a homogenous society with a lot of pride in its culture and heritage vs a messy melting pot that now has no idea what it stands for kind of issue.

[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.

Yes!

I can not imagine you have been to the same station I have. Are you going very late at night?

[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.

Yes!

MAGA cult of stupidity

This was already set to be done by Biden dam idiots.

Now we will pay more taxpayer monies putting Gold and Trump's fat face as a dictator all over the station.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:To be perfectly honest, the station had dramatically been improved since Amtrak took control a year ago. But it was really, really bad from 2021 to early 2024.

Actually in my memory, things started to go visibly downhill (also in Eastern Market) around 2019 pre-Covid with a flood of opioids and the synthetic drugs. That’s when you started to see people tweaking out everywhere, on the ground, etc b

It did get bad then.

For those who missed how Union Station was in 90s, it was a site for fancy weddings. It was beautiful and had good restaurants and shopping too.