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Posted by Sand Box John on Sat Apr 9 10:59:54 2011, in response to Re: Metro Station at Dulles Airport to be Built Underground, posted by Olog-hai on Fri Apr 8 23:08:52 2011. It's only 49 years old. Shouldn't qualify. Funny how they race to make old airport terminals "historic landmarks" thus putting them in the way of upgrading, but historic railway stations get smashed.Determining the historic landmark status of a structure is very subjective at best. The difference between your example, railway stations and airport terminals is, virtually all airport terminals are government property from the day they were planed, railway stations were planed and built by private enterprises and many them were demolished because they became of no value to the enterprises that owned them. Plenty of alterations are performed to historic preserved structures anyhow. Ever saw what they did to the Broad Street Station (former DL&W) in Newark, New Jersey over the past few years? What's going on with the Dulles terminal is just due to some politician's opinion. You haven't been following this matter very closely. The original plan was to build the station in subway to avoid any alteration to the over appearance of the main terminal from the start. MWAA, Dulles Transit Partners and its predecessors new this was an issue going in. Building an elevated station in front of the main terminal would be akin to building a congressional office building for the leadership on the west lawn of the Capital. This far more then just some politician's opinion, This is the position of the folks that decide historic landmark status at both state and federal level. The state and local politicians want the cheaper surface station adjacent to the garage. A station on surface at the same location as the subway option would be cheaper then the station in subway but it would not be as cheap station adjacent to the garage. If I had it my way the station would have been built on the arrival roadway. The arrival roadway is the level below the roadway in front of the main terminal. The overall appearance of the station on that level would have had little effect to the overall appearance main terminal, after all the height of a metrorail train above the station platform is less then 2/3 the height of a tour bus. A low profile canopy above the platform would top out at the height of that tour bus. John in the sand box of Maryland's eastern shore. |
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