Your ideas for station design

[Tony Fernandez]

Okay, I guess this will just be a fun thread, but I was looking online and I saw a light rail station that was in water. Imagine how nice that would look anywhere. Well here's a picture if you want to see.

[kenalpern]

Well, after a good El Nino rain, I suppose a lot of the stations would look like that... )

[jejozwik]

reminds me of universal city station before they cleaned out the storm drain pipes

[erict]

Since Houston is basically a drained swamp, it makes sense that the train would go over water. Being from there, I know that it rains almost every day - there is water everywhere. I heard that they changed their plans to build BRT line(s) to Light Rail, finally something smart from a city without sidewalks.

[Mac]

I wish the main theme of Union Station would be applied to the station platforms as well.

[Tony Fernandez]

^^Something will have to be done when and if CAHSR goes by there. That could be something that is up for discussion because the HSR trains will go above the current tracks if I know enough about the project. It seems like that would be a great time to renovate those platforms.

[bluelineshawn]

phattonez said:

Okay, I guess this will just be a fun thread, but I was looking online and I saw a light rail station that was in water. Imagine how nice that would look anywhere. Well here's a picture if you want to see.

IIRC that's not a station, that's a fountain that the train runs by in downtown Houston. The fountain actually has a water feature that spouts water.

[whitmanlam]

I'd like to see an elevated track that goes through a shopping mall, (like maybe a Westfield Shoppingtown) and have a station inside the mall. That would be great for shoppers.
They can fence off the station after store hours, or have trains bypass the station after a closing time.

[antonio]

While that would be great for shoppers it wouldn't make much sense if the mall wasn't also a major job and activity center or right next to one or if it was at the intersection of two arterial. The only ones that come to mind are Century City and Beverly Center (which will be getting underground heavy rail). I envision the Ventura/Sepulveda stop of a 405 parallel line being underground from tunneling under the mountains but if it was an elevated line over the pass then I could see that at the Sherman Oaks Galleria.

Many of our Red Line stations are quite beautiful but i could see this grand big space with huge platforms and massive decorative architecture at a major station like Century City (where it will be famous and actually able to be excavated at such a depth without disrupting a major intersection)
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That is the Olaias station on the Lisbon Metro, which the photographer stated was the most beautiful Metro station he'd ever seen and while its a subjective and debatable point, I for one am inclined to agree while mentioning I haven't been to or studied every metro in the world

[jejozwik]

it not very appealing. though i do like the brightness of the station platform

[Mac]

Whats with the colorful lights??? Imagine going through that station everyday to work, with 10 different, brightly colored lights shining in your face.