Station plans face cutbacks
Plans to revitalize the Union Street Station have been derailed once again.
The plans, which involve a three-tiered redevelopment of the train station and its surrounding neighborhood, are now facing proposals for major cutbacks by Gov. M. Jodi Rell in light of the city’s growing debt and $17 million annual budget shortfall.
The first phase of the project called for the construction of a 667-space parking garage, the building of a pedestrian bridge to Union Street Station and the creation of 50,000 square feet of mixed-use development, to be completed in 2011. The new...
Would Anstress Farwell like to let me park my car at her house and drive me to the station every morning, and also meet my train every evening? Because if she thinks those parking garages aren't good for the community, I would like to know how to move to her alternate universe in which everyone rides around in perfect weather on bicycles they wove themselves out of the flax they grew in their compost bins.
THERE AREN'T ENOUGH PARKING SPACES AT UNION STATION.
Surely that should be a priority, so commuters can keep their cars off the highways and take Metro North into NY.