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Originally Posted by Mr Downtown
We used to think a Metra stop required only a sign nailed to a pole. But then 35th Street demonstrated that, if you concentrate real hard, you can manage to spend $30 million on two ground-level platforms.
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Possibly, if you want a station with side platforms that only certain trains can stop at. The Halsted St station on BNSF is the worst case scenario for this. It’s so useless, I don’t even understand why Metra keeps it around. Seriously it’s a joke. But it was definitely built on the cheap.
However, if you want to build a station that is a true alternate to Union Station serving the growing Fulton office corridor, then you probably need several platforms with safe, accessible ways to move among the platforms and down the street