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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. [/quote]

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. [/quote]

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. [/quote]

[b]So TBC, you support massive government spending on public transportation? [/b]

Or is this about making the station a pretty (and expensive) shopping center while the actual rail line continues to be both slower and more expensive than flying, and Musk torpedoes high speed rail projects? Because the point of Tokyo's nice station is its nice high speed trains that thousands of people use every day. [/quote]

The station would be nicer if they wouldn’t have ever let dozens of people camp on Columbus Circle out front and wonder around shouting obscenities at passerbys and leaning out in public. The tents have been addressed just prior to Trump coming in because of the outrage over the encampments there but the damage was already done. Union Station wasn’t always the ire of right wing talk show hosts. It wasn’t always this way.

Now, because of a lack of will to police simple quality of life issues, they’ve removed most of the seating in the station because everyone must suffer now because the cops can’t tell people to move it who sleep on the chairs all day. It’s an adequate parable for American society. [/quote]

I have no idea what you are ranting about. Biden/Bowser got rid of the encampments. Yes they should do better with moving the disruptive vagrants along … but guess what - this is federal property and the Feds chose not to! Ask yourself why the Feds have long permitted and CONTINUE to permit people to congregate in front of the Postal Museum … that is not the jurisdiction of MPD or the Amtrak police. [/quote]

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