Kind of wild to me that despite being the busiest station in the UK, Waterloo is in a kinda underbuilt, run-down part of London. Penn Station & Grand Central don't have this problem, neither do Japanese stations like Shinjuku and Shibuya. Is everyone just transferring through?
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Replying to @380kmh
That's definitely the same in Paris, where Gare du Nord is "shitty" (and huge) and chatlet (central paris station) is shitty/always under construction/huge/avoided/the main transfer. For Paris, the smaller the station, the nicer.
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Was about to say this. Gare du Nord and chatelet are in some of the more run down areas of Paris and nonetheless are the busiest public transportation hubs of the entire metropolitan area
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Oh no I don't mean that the *station* is bad, but that the neighborhood that it's in the middle of doesn't seem to be very busy or developed compared to those around other terminals.
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All these people coming and going, but nobody sticking around to spend any money there? No apparent rush to build offices etc in the immediate vicinity? Odd imo
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In Munich, there is a diverse range of.... kebab shops, in the vicinity. Something about the current arrangement does not inspire a rush to build offices, etc.
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All well and good for the last 20 years or so, but it's not as though the development booms at Penn Station or Shinjuku took place during that time frame either--why didn't they get built up, say, in the 70s?
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Good Q.
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