A safe, clean, on-time ride. That's all most of us expect from the Chicago Transit Authority. But why not ask for something more? Station architecture that puts zing in the journey and elevates the city around it. That's what we get at the crisply modern new Morgan "L" station on Chicago's Near West Side. — chicagotribune.com
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I wouldn't recognize my own home town. And all this for just $38M?
Ok, first of all, Chicago Tribune.... please explain that headline? It makes no sense at all and its either the most horrendously written headline of all time, or its a ridiculous typo. Either explanation combined with the fact that it has YET to be changed on their own website lets me know absolutely no one there cares. That just frustrates me, have some pride Kamin... come on...
Secondly, what exactly is the problem here? How much SHOULD it cost to build from scratch an elevated train station in a dense neighborhood, among many old buildings and a busy east west thoroughfare? If you know how much this SHOULD have cost, and can tell me where the waste and negligence was that would be great. That is a comment i would love to hear. If you cant do that, if ones only response is to express the now widely acceptable notion that economics are now the only standard by which we can define value, then i guess i just don't understand why we build anything at all. If we can impart no value beyond how much it costs, what is the point, architecture is in fact useless right?
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