From: gurd@next04wor.wam.umd.edu (Daffy Duck)
Newsgroups: rec.railroad
Subject: Re: Amtrak Stations
Date: 15 Sep 92 00:24:05 GMT
Reply-To: gurd@wam.umd.edu

Ron Newman writes
> In article <15423@umd5.umd.edu>, gurd@next04wor.wam.umd.edu (Daffy  
Duck) writes:
> |> The Washington Times, devoted almost its entire money section  
Today
> |> (Sunday, Sept. 13) to Amtrak's stations and how they are helping  
the  
> |> company increase ridership.
> 
> It's very surprising that The Washington Times, the mouthpiece of
> an extremist right-wing organization, would extol the virtues of 
> the government-run Amtrak.   Still, it's a good article.
> 
> The article failed to mention the total gutting and reconstruction
> of Boston's South Station, which reopened in November 1989.
> Like Washington Union Station, South Station has become a  
destination
> for many people who are not taking trains.   Its food court is
> quite popular among people who work in the adjacent financial 
> district.
> 
> The station's owner, the Mass. Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA)
> is about to start construction on an intercity bus terminal 
> which will replace several existing bus stations scattered 
> around the downtown and Back Bay areas.  Unfortunately, this will
> be built above the existing open-air rail platforms.   It will
> increase the station's usefulness, but (in my opinion) reduce
> its architectural and esthetic value.
> 
> Ron Newman		rnewman@bbn.com

I neglected to mention in my original post, that there were two other  
articles on Amtrak in the same section.  The second delt with  
Amtrak's efforts more specifically to move from Amshack's back to  
real stations (Jacksonville & St. Louis) and the other one showed how  
small stations still had their place, especially in small towns like  
Wisconsin Dells, WI.
If you wan't them you'll have to buy that paper (e-mail me for more  
info if you really wan't it with pictures and big text and all).


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