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@patrick, the plan includes major revisions to the west of the station. A new West concourse with retail on lower? level, a bike and pedestrian greenway on the outside at or above street level. Look at the diagram on Page 16 and rendering on page 18 of the plan.

Lots of stuff going on in these plans: the bus terminal gets moved further north to a new expanded facility, the parking garage would be torn down, new underground parking garage (expensive), and a H street streetcar stop with direct entrances into the Concourse B space with retail stores, new tracks and more high level platforms.

One question to ask if all that retail space is added, would it turn Union station into the largest indoor retail facility or mall (if you will) in DC?

Amtrak had a total of 4.85 million boarding + alightings at Union Station in FY11. Anyone know what the total numbers were for VRE and MARC passengers in 2011? And what about the Metro station? WMATA provides the weekday average, but what are the Saturday & Sunday numbers and the total number of people who used Metro Union Station in 2011 or FY11?

by AlanF on Jul 25, 2012 4:14 pm • link • report

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