On North Carolina Amtrak stations

Feb 24, 2011 00:12

North Carolina is tends to be seen as  fairly conservative state. And, for some strange reason, conservatives tend to hate public transportation. I've never been able to understand it.... So I was quite surprised to see that North Carolina Department of Transportation has done a pretty cool job of renovating the state's Amtrak stations. I was particularly impressed with the way it renovated old industrial buildings into Amtrak stations. It's great to see old buildings getting reused, and I would definitely prefer the roomy, more old-school building to modernist "Amshacks" - very barebones station buildings Amtrak tends to build when it has to pull something together from scratch. I am also intrigued by the concept of temporary stations - stations that are put up for large-scale events such as the North Carolina State Fair and the Lexington Barbecue Festival. I wish other states would utilize them.

links, annabait, public transit, amtrak

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