crs1026
Superstar
^I can understand the need to renew HVAC, electricals, etc. And the strategy of redeveloping all the unused space on the lower levels for commercial revenue made eminent sense. But - not starting with the core operational service requirements, and designing outwards from that core need, is deplorable.
This was a bunch of development people and heritage fanatics (I say that as a heritage fanatic myself, btw) renovating a pretty building for its aesthetic value, with an eye to its potential value as a shopping mall.....not an operating railroad designing a train station to perform its core function better for another hundred years under ever increasing loads.
If it turns out that the whole platform design was constrained from the start by the desire to preserve that damn trainshed.....I’m willing to help start a crowdfunding page to buy some hacksaw blades....
- Paul
This was a bunch of development people and heritage fanatics (I say that as a heritage fanatic myself, btw) renovating a pretty building for its aesthetic value, with an eye to its potential value as a shopping mall.....not an operating railroad designing a train station to perform its core function better for another hundred years under ever increasing loads.
If it turns out that the whole platform design was constrained from the start by the desire to preserve that damn trainshed.....I’m willing to help start a crowdfunding page to buy some hacksaw blades....
- Paul