Why are modern train stations not built with beauty in mind?
>>2031688Look at how much MTA's costs go to "administration" and you'll see why.
>>2031700most "MTA" stations were built well before the MTA even existed and tee bee aich I'm not sure that the william wegman dogs wearing funny people clothes murals in the refurbished stations are the best way to be spending money but hey whatever I'm not an urban planner so what the fuck do I know
>>2031688Because beauty is a product of wypipo colonialism and must be dismantled in favor of ugly demoralizing crap, according to the freaks in charge of mass transit.
>>2031713This but unironically
beauty doesn't fit on the balance sheet
>>2031688there is no beauty in postmodern culture, all you get is "futuristic"
>>2031688The particular example of the Moscow Metro stations is interesting. From what I understand, Stalin personally insisted on the stations being beautified. I have no idea why he wanted that. >>2031726Eh, some postmodern stations are neat. Like picrel.
do incels even know what "postmodern" means or is it just another meme word they got from oprah for men?
>>2031688Trains were the hyperloop or electric Apple self-driving AI car of the first quarter to half of the 20th century.Now, trains are purely functional at best, and a tax loss at worst. With no VC money behind them they need to be built as cheap as possible and as few as possible.
>>2031762no
>>2031757>I have no idea why he wanted that.iirc it was something like it being "the temple of the working class" or something like that.
>>2031709>most "MTA" stations were built well before the MTAand guess which ones of them were built by for-profit organisations
>>2031757Metro is the most universally seen part of the city. You can make a couple cool buildings scattered around the city, of which most will see one-two in their life, or you can make a system that is used by a lot of people constantly remind people of communism's greatness. It's like how an office building's entrance is usually pretty, but go to the working areas and they are bland and uninteresting and cheap.
>>2031757Socialist classicism: turning classes upside down, pretty things for the normal people yadda yadda and of course for prestige. I wish they would have had more resources and time and more commieblocks were build in that style.
>>2031757>Moscow metroThe only worthwhile thing that lunatic ever did.>>2031757Still looks awful. Oppressive AF.
>>2031854What about picrel?
>>2031856It's barely passable and soulless, but it's better than not having it and having to deal with underground NYP.>t., actually rode through it, will be back to it this yearPenn Station is an intercity station for one of the most populated cities in the world that got smashed by the dying Pennsy to fit into a Tokyo subway stop.Moynihan makes you queue up for the platform escalator (show in picrel, the corded pathways) which is dumb as shit, but that might just be Amtrak brain damage. The ticketed waiting rooms are okay, and I appreciate that I can avoid being hustled for crack money and the seats and floor aren't covered in piss for once.
>>2031856>huge screens that would be perfect for information about the trains coming and going>just giant adverts>also no chairs, can't have people sitting for free while they wait, gotta pay and sit in a cafeit's almost a self parody of the USA in generalAttached is my local big station, big screens showing what train goes where, lots of seats, and shops/restaurants/bars in the main area as wellIt's not hard to get it right, but that place definitely gets it all wrong
>>2031688Because in communist countries the labor was free and those doubled as bomb shelters. That's why all the old Warsaw Pact countries have a way underground subway like 200ft down
