Union Station put on track to renovation
If new renovation proposals for New Haven’s Union Station successfully pass, town residents and Yale students may begin their travels from a destination in and of itself.
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By comment (Unregistered User)
12:48pm on March 25, 2008
They're only getting around to this now? When I went to Y in the late '80s there was already a great need to do something about Union Station. I believe some renovations were done at some point, but nothing was done to address its isolation in a bad neighborhood and the lack of any reliable transport link to the main part of town. (There were very occasional buses, but most of the time you were hog-tied to taking a cab.) If something could be developed around there to create a safe "corridor" to the Green, that would help; at least people wouldn't mind walking so much.
Yeah, this would be a great idea if they addressed a few other things too:
(1) Train service to New York is still absurdly slow and on gross trains
(2) Union station is so far from the center of town and it's in a pretty run-down and dangerous neighborhood. They would need to improve the connection to downtown (light rail?) and majorly improve safety in the neighborhood of the station itself.