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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]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.[/quote]

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.  [/quote]

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.[/quote]

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.

[b]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.  [/b]

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.[/quote]

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.[/quote]

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