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All I can say is wow!!! Now why is this in Dearborn and not downtown Detroit? What dead senator are they going to name it after? It looks like this was recycled from a power plant.
Three things come to mind:
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They are talking about building a commuter service between Ann Arbor and Detroit, this might be intended as a way point?
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Ditto for the Detroit-Chicago HSR initiative
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They say that the local municipality will be required to foot the bill for maintenance. Last I checked Detroit was pretty much in “deferred maintenance” mode.
And…(drum roll please) the station will be named for John Dingell Jr.
John D. Dingell, Jr
John D. Dingell, Jr
John D. Dingell, Jr
PS, you might want to consider using a third party hosting site for pictures that are part of an article that explains all the ‘questions’ you pretend to need answers to. That way you won’t be giving yourself up so easily. [oX)]
That glasses in elevated walkway should continue to the bus platforms.
ROAR
BONAVENTURE- What railroad station DO you like?
Well, it actually doesn’t look too bad at all. I would say that with all that glass they’d better have a good air conditioning system, in the summer it’s going to be hotter than a two-dollar pistol.
Greenhouse effect, don’t ya know?
Here is another perspective of the new Dearborn station along with a picture of the old station. The old one is a classic modern Amtrak design but I’m sure there are many others around the country. The new one seems reminiscent of older railroad architecture except for the glass enclosed pedestrian walkways. And the new one will be “multi modal” which means trains and buses will use it.
http://www.earthtechling.com/2012/04/dearborn-michigan-gets-shiny-new-train-station/
Not far from Dearborn there is the Jackson Amtrak station, which almost everyone likes:
http://www.hebners.net/amtrak/amtSTAtionGM/JacksonMI.jpg
or even close, the Ann Arbor (MC) station:
http://www.waymarking.com/gallery/image.aspx?f=1&guid=2383ca3e-c9b9-4ff6-b7ec-bad4f48cfb67
I was expecting to see white marble and minarets! That doesn’t look anything like the Taj
More like the Grand Palais des Champs-Elysées or the “glass pyramid” outside the Louvre in Paris, France.
There are those the decry those both as being ugly, but they are just a form of architecture as is this Dearborn station.
What does the Taj Mahal have to do with Dearborn having the largest USA’s Arab-American Population and being home to the Arab-American Museum?
Am I missing something on this Rail Road forum?
Best to just ignore that stuff.
The Ann Arbor station hasn’t been used as a station for quite a while, I’m pretty sure. I seem to recall a couple of different restaurants in there.
The O.P. posted a 2010 drawing of this station, and there was also a 2012 drawing posted later. That one seems a little saner. Is it still due to open soon?
I think you’ll find that Dearborn will have the highest ridership at the eastern end of this corridor. It is a strange corridor, folding back on itself to go to Pontiac. (I had some relatives who lived closer to that Detroit-Pontiac leg, yet found it easier, not to mention faster and cheaper, to catch the train in Ann Arbor.)
I can only wish that Chicago-to-Toronto were still viable. They’ve made such a mess of border crossings that it’s not worth the hassle (so I’m told).
And yes, the post had some distinct racial overtones that I wish had been found as objectionable to the moderators as other far less inocuous things apparently were. And for Pete’s sake, what’s wrong with a city providing and maintaining a usable station building for a passenger service that will support it? Those three round trips will be expanded when the corridor is upgraded, and an intermodal facility like this will definately be useful and usable.
I would like to remind everyone that the New Center station in Detroit is considered “temporary” by Amtrak until Detroit gets it’s financial house in order. Amtrak still considers the abandoned Michigan Central Terminal at the mouth of the rail tunnels to Canada to be it’s proper Detroit Terminus and has not fully abandoned that as a future rail station location.
Amtrak was clear on this when it built the New Center station that it was to be a temporary structure until Detroit could finalize what it’s city transit plans were to be. Now Detroit has come up with plans for a street car down Woodward Ave to the Amtrak station in New Center. If that were to be built and Detroit agreed that New Center would be the new Detroit station vs a Junction Station then the New Center Amtrak station would be replaced with a much larger design. The problem is there are also on again and off again plans to bring back the abandoned Michigan Central Station on Fort Street and hence Amtrak has not let go of that location either.
So while Dearborn might appear to be the largest station or a very large station. In Amtraks planning the final Detroit Station has not been decided on yet or built / rebuilt yet.
BTW, you guys are getting way too over excited over the Arab reference. OP was just pointing that out and a few overly sensitive posters needed to be handed a hanky. Lets not have a society where we always wet our pants over a persons comments and imply bias. Really thats not supportive of a free exchange of ideas. I used to live in Inkster (next to Dearborn) and in Southfield a ways back and Detroit suburban types always point that out about Dearborn…nothing racist about it.
Maybe the CHAMBERS STREET station is more to his liking…
What the heck, I have always liked this station. Picturesque comes to mind among other names for it…
Just upstairs is the most expensive real estate in the city.
ROAR
FWIW, it appears to me that the Op made a baseless reference to the Taj Mahal followed up with race based comments that had absolutely no tie to the real subject matter. For what purpose OTHER than to provoke? is the question immediately occurring to me.
India isn’t even an Arab nation.
He used the Taj Mahal in the subject line as part of a description. Commonly used by non biased Americans to describe grandiose buildings.
He stated in the post in a BTW, that Dearborn was home to the largest Arab population in the United States. His reference to them needing more TSA can be interpreted both ways. Not specifically one way or the other, IMO. I am telling you I used to live there the locals all say that about Dearborn to people that do not live in Detroit as an extra fact. It’s really a stretch to connect that comment with the Taj Mahal comment in the subject line to say the two were intentionally connected by the author. Most American know the Taj Mahal is in India.
I am just as against the PC police making this Forum overly boring and non descriipt as I am against those that actually would deliberately use racial bias in their posts. Lets give folks more of a chance before we imply anything.
Jesus, Mary and Joseph! I wouldn’t go in there unless I was packin’ heat! Even then I’d think twice about it! And then I wouldn’t go in anyway!
Well, maybe if I had a squad of Marines with me…
ROFLMAO… That is CITY HALL Above that station. Remember Mayor Tweed? That’s HIS work.
It really is a save and EXPENSIVE neighborhood up there, one of the safest place in the city.
Aye, but there is an issue with the plumbing in the city hall buildings up stairs, the leaks cannot be fixed save by tearing down city hall and starting over . (Thanks, Boss Tweed!)
Chambers street runs east and west, my niece lives in an expensive co-op on the west end. As far as the subways are concerned these are old stations and most are showing their age.
This particular station is on Nassau Street, and was way over built. They EXPECTED trains to run across the Brooklyn Bridge, but the newer heavier subways (of the 1920s) could not cross that bridge.
The Long Island Railroad also had trains terminating at that station. Subways and Railroads no longer run in common in this city, but the BMT and LIRR have long histories of working together as well as in competition.
That platform has not been used in 60 years, but was taken from the operating platform. (Not by me) Here is my photo looking at the platforms that are in service:
Why is it not in downtown Detroit? Right now, Amtrak does not go into downtown Detroit, for reasons stated in other posts.
Simple answer: No tracks there.