Post your favorite or most used train station or bus stop.Once a year or so I like to start this thread, it usually ends up pretty interesting.
I'm a passionate bus stop collector. Currently I'm extremely obsessed with Ukrainian bus stops. My Ukrainian collection numbers well over a thousand bus stops; best country to for bus stop hunting I've been to. I've got photos of bus stops from all across Europe though.Pic related is a bus stop in the Petrykivka art style, which is part of Unesco's intangible cultural heritage.
>>2036071One of my all-time favorites is this beauty from Lipcani, Northern Moldova.
>>2036072A dilapidated bus stop somewhere in Kosovo.
>>2036072That is adorable.
>>2036073Tipi style bus stop in Iskateley, Nenets Autonomous Okrug, Russia.
>>2036074This one from Northern Ukraine is lovely too.
>>2036077A modern bus stop on the shores of frozen Lake Mjosa, Norway.
>>2036078Camouflage bus stop in Sümeg, Hungary.
>>2036079An intriguing mosaic art bus stop from Goian, Transnistria. It was a popular style in the Soviet era. They're still commonly found all across the successor states of the Soviet Union.
>>2036081>TransnistriaSir, it's called Moldova.
>>2036081More bus stop sovl from Ukraine.
>>2036083I just wanted to specify the region.
>>2035500Look at my four million population city central station, dawg.
>>2036131>European Capital of CultureOh no, sorry anon.
>>2036131I don't think it can transport 4 million people with wooden doors.
>>2036131is that greece? everything about the rail system sounds like an utter shambles
>>2036394>wooden doors
Tokyo station.my workplace.
It's hard to find a lot of good pictures of it because it doesn't get a lot of use nowadays. The station isn't as nice as it looks here because on the other side is an abandoned strip mall. A developer wants to build apartments there, but as you can imagine after resident push back about neighborhood character (in reference to the abandoned strip mall) the county voted it down but there's a state law that's supposed to override it so last I heard the developer is making the project bigger out of spite. I'm unironically planning on moving into the city due to lack of TOD in the county. The train gets you downtown so quickly but the closest apartments are so far from the train station all your time savings are gone. Would love to live in an apartment here but oh well.
And the tram one(RIP 56)
>>2037142Is the strip mall an 'historic building' or are the residents upset by something else? Like is it going to be a big ass building blocking views or like low income housing brining shitty people to the neighborhood?
Built in 1873, rebuilt in 1884, and expanded in 1905. https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-baltimore-sun-metbranch-railroad-no/128394636/
>>2035500
Do you guys prefer open platform or building interior?
>>2039442Definitely building interior. Big art deco and union station styles are sovl.
>>2037142speaking of TODs I feel like too many county governments and developers are too scared to go dedicated and fully make a residential/mixed use area car-free or car limited. I dont know if it is because of state zoning laws or the dot but yeah. TODs could be much more effective if parking was just restricted to essential personnel rather than residents.
>>2039457Also a big problem with Metros outside of NYC, Boston, Chicago and Washington is that there is not enough coverage. Most only have 1 relatively long line with smaller line/s that spurs out of the main lineFor example take Miami as an example. One big flaw with the beach corridor is that it doesnt take into account expediting the journey from MIA to Miami Beach. The problem with the beach corridor as proposed is that it only serves dwn twn, and for tourists that detour increases the journey to over and hour even if the metro mover has ROW. And bus lanes on arterials have always been a meme. What we need is a metro rail line that goes directly from Lincoln Road to the airport much like an upgraded 150 bus route
Bump
Manchester Piccadilly may not be the prettiest example of Victorian brickwork, and the original brick front has been replaced by a dull 60s block, but I feel at home there.
Partick, Glasgow
>>2040884And the corresponding bus station
>>2040885Plus here’s the new Hairmyres station in East Kilbride, which I visited today
>>2036052came here to post this! based ke/n/sington enjoyer>>2039442cool station but also a great argument for outdoor platforms because of how got-dang confusing it is in there. prolly easier for locals but I prefer the simplicity of a good ol fashioned platform
>>2040888checked>got-dang confusing it is in thereIt's designed after the mythical labyrinth of ancient Greece but instead of a minotaur it houses countless fentanyl addled schizos who will shout slurs at you.
I pray and hope that they actually fix Penn Station.
I've lived pretty much my whole life in rural Victoria, whenever I take the train into Flinders Street Station in Melbourne I am blown away by the architecture and just the general scale of the building and the surrounding square.
>>2040995That's pretty
>>2040941Just make sure not to rank C**mo tomorrow because he'll torpedo anything related to transit
Just love the Piedmont service in general, except the F59PHI's. Fuck them.
>>2035500>GO Transit MPI ExpressPeak Canuck railroading. In a few decades it'll be as quintessential to Canadian rail as the F40PH was to the US.
>>2045785The F40 is already pretty engrained in Canadian Culture, it's on one of their bank notes
>>2040941They never should have built MSG.Or torn down Reading Terminal to build the Philly cross SEPTA piss tunnel.
>>2047870here's how it looks from the front, even though it's not that impressive
nice
>>2036077thx for all these but this one in particular.
>>2050351What's it look like now?
>>2050708your run-of-the-mill postmodern platform stop. At least the service is good (12 trains per direction per hour betwen 6am and 8pm, then 6 per hour per direction for the evening, and 3 for the night)
>>2050802>postmodernpretty sure it's just Modern
>>2050807It has 80's/90's postmodern look and elements that distinguish it from simple modernism (or functionalism). This could also be a translation error so correct me if I'm wrong, but>pastel colors>decorations>constructed 1994
5 minutes walk from my house.
>>2050810I'm not exactly an expert, but I called it modern because of the simple, exposed design with clean lines. po-mo came afterwards with bright colors and adding back a sense of whimsey and non-essential decorative elements. so, if Ikea is Modern; pic related is Po-Mo.also, Moe Sizlac has a workable definition:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c0DwRAVJZ4A
>>2050881dammit, when I went to get the YouTube link it erased my post and I forgot to reup the pic
>>2036131I lived in a town with 80000 population that had a bigger train station.
>>2036073Who's Toka and why is he a shitet?
>>2050882Yes post-mo, especially the pieces you see in exhibitions go hard. Here, in architectural talk, pic related is framed post modern to distinguish it from the rather prominent international style and concrete brutalism of previous decades.Similar motifs are there in both to see, color, those blue structure poles, same time period
>>2050948Another train station from 1990. Later demolished to construct larger shopping centre / station / housing
>>2050949This style is either very pretty or very uggly. Worse case it looks like toilet tiling
2 years later its still a construct site and all they wanted to do was make a new pedestrian under-crossing. Probably won't be finished by the end of the year. Taken from the temporary makeshift bridge to cross the railway in the meantime .
>>20510462/2. The concrete parts they odered (see prev pic) for the tunnel didn't fit, so that delayed it by a year. Elderly and unabled have stoped taking the train because they physically cant take the stairs.
>>2051048>>2051046lmfao Germany is such an absolute meme
>>2051064People have literally broken their bones from slipping on the stairs in the winter. It can take some 5 minutes plus because of the length and height of the stairs, as well as long walking paths around the pits to get from one lane to the other. Missing a connecting train is a daily occidence for many. I don't understand why they cant just make a 20m retractable ramp over the lanes in the meantime, atleast for rush hour. It could be manual or automated with a barrier. If you can make it for street crossings and cars it should be possible here too. It probably would be cheaper compared to the monster of staircase, based on man power and resources needed to set it up, no? Sorry for the rant, I'm pissed about it.
>>2051096Which bundesland anon? Havent seen anything this shitty and half arsed around Saxony. Maybe its those sweet EU development fund gibs
>>2051097Hessen
>>2035500Hilversum the Netherlands.
The D Branch on the MBTA's Green Line has a lot of comfy stops.
>>2051507Those are the worst-applied yellow lines I've ever seen.
The Georgia Ave - Petworth station, by far the one I have used the most at this point. It’s a typical underground metro station, nothing special but that’s part of the charm, that is the uniformity of metro stations, traveling through god knows how many stops, each consisting of a spacious, tall, wide waffle dome gently lit up by platform lighting. Metro for me is such a comfy experience, especially later at night when you’ve been out drinking.
>>2052542The Takoma Station, which I use also quite frequently, I love coming in from the south to here at night and evening and getting that view over the low slung urbanity of ne, Takoma itself I find to be a particularly serene and comfy station.
>>2052543Takoma from another view
>>2052544Here is halfway up the Wheaton escalator, the station itself is quite interesting because of its shotgun style and the lowness of the ceilings, I recently found out that the escalator is in fact the longest one in the western hemisphere which surprised me a little, although I must admit it always was a leg workout going up it.
>>2052546Now this is one of the most interesting platforms in the system, the green line platform at Fort Totten, which seamlessly transitions from an open, naturally lit platform to the subterranean, gently illuminated, platform under the characteristically parabolic, waffled, ceilings. I also quite like the design of the lights on the open section.
>>2052548And finally, the Dulles station, one of the newest in the whole system, the design is quoted different, and yet its sleek, space-agey, and somewhat blocky and bureaucratic architecture still seems to me to be within the general aesthetic spirit of metro as a whole (and also goes perfectly with the airport itself, whose design I am also quite fond of), this picture was taken after arriving back home after a short vacation, the in which the post sunset colors of the sky blended with the station itself was quite beautiful and really seemed to me to be emblematic of what I love about the DC area.
>>2052549And before I go, here is the bus stop which I most frequently used, and used far more than any train station in the city, it certainly is nothing special but damn if it isn’t one of the most familiar sites imaginable, whenever I go back home it’s always a breath of fresh air walking up and waiting there for the bus to arrive. I would also like to say that there are lots of other cool metro stations that I unfortunately did not have pictures of, including the oft photographed, vast and cavernous Metro Center and L’Enfant Plaza, but also the unique semi open station at PG plaza with its high, flat, roof, or the rolling, low, horizontal ceilings of Anacostia. In terms of the trains, I’m not too picky but I like the 6000 series and below the most, they just have a more unique and officey atmosphere which goes with metro’s general aesthetic, and I much prefer the white and brown paint jobs, which again, go much better with the general aesthetic of the system and city itself.
>>2035500From San Francisco, Glen Park Station. Love the brutalist design.
>>2052554im a retard forgot the picture lol
