I just sent an email to the CTA:
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From: Maldre, Matthew
Sent: Friday, August 19, 2005 11:09 AM
To:
ctahelp@transitchicago.com
Subject: beautiful public transit stations
We live in a city renowned for its great architecture. I suggest you look to these beautiful public transit stations around the world:
http://mic-ro.com/metro/metroart.html
A world class city like Chicago deserves world class transit stations. There are 39 cities on this list: Athens, Baku, Berlin, Bilbao, Boston, Brussels, Genoa, Hanover, Hong Kong, Kiev, Lille, Lisbon, London, Los Angeles, Montreal, Moscow, Munich, Naples, Newcastle, New York, Nizhniy Novgorod, Nuremberg, Paris, Prague, Pyongyang, Rhine-Ruhr, Rotterdam, Santiago de Chile, Singapore, Stockholm, St Petersburg, Tashkent, Tehran, Tokyo, Toronto, Valencia, Vienna, Washington, Zurich.
Yet Chicago is not on this list. Let's get some beautiful train stops. It will help to increase ridership.
We're renovating a bunch of the brown line stops. Any chance that they can be made beautiful like these? Now is the time since we are fixing them up.
Thank you,
Matt Maldre
If we HAD to pick a Chicago station with the greatest architecture, which would it be?
* I immediately think of the Lake stop in the loop, but that's because it's attached to a big fancy building. The stop itself is bland.
* The
Quincy stop is kinda retro cool, but beautiful in the same way as the stations on the
metro art site?
* Would
O'Hare get the prize with its curved colorful curved sidewalls of glass block?
What would you say is the most beautiful Chicago L stop?
