It boggles the mind that those institutions would actively resist having direct access to the subway system.
I wonder if this is a hint to how deeply rooted car-centric sentiment is in the US.
Amusingly, the Seoul Metropolitan Council (which would correspond to a US State Congress/Senate) said fuck you, it's getting built in the place, so that's how the station kept its place.
What is a security threat to infrastructure are roads, where you can drive massive vehicles into people, transport and explode bombs, etc. The Manchester bombing for example was a truck exploding parked on a public road.
There’s still a fairly large train station complex underneath the World Trade Center.
There’s a school of thought that sees subways as a conveyor belt of undesirable people into a neighborhood that bring crime and “problems”.
As ridiculous as it sounds the phenomenon is very real.
Capitol Hill politicians have their own subway system and other underground spaces. The Metro stop is directly behind the Cannon House Office Building. Lobbyists send documents and gifts by bicycle courier. Biden famously commuted in from Delaware by Amtrak.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Capitol_subway_s...
https://www.washingtontunnels.com/capitol-hill-map
>Biden made Amtrak trips between Washington and his home in Delaware on most days as a senator when Congress was in session so he could help raise his sons. The Amtrak round trip is actually 220 miles or 354 kilometers, not over 260 miles (418 km) as he described it.
https://apnews.com/article/ap-fact-check-biden-amtrak-e79af0...
Even today in DC, there's still no convenient public transit access for wealthy Georgetown, because they resisted building a station there. M Street is horribly crowded with both cars and pedestrians.
That's likely unrelated to anti-car sentiment and more so because bicyclists are (on average) complete assholes on the road, since there is no accountability for their behavior.
I'd be fine with bicyclists if we could use cameras/facial recognition to issue fines and arrest warrants, thereby finally domesticating them.
Medice sp527, cura te ipsum, because your own recent post applies perfectly to you:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37671630
>sp527 1 day ago | parent | context | flag | favorite | on: Rethinking the Luddites
>> 'Some with sociopathy may not realize that what they’re doing is wrong while others may simply not care. And sometimes, Dr. Coulter says, it can be both.
>“There’s just a total lack of empathy or recognizing that what they’ve done has hurt someone or it’s only benefited themselves,” he says. “And sometimes they might recognize what they’re doing is wrong, they just don’t care or they justify it to themselves.”'
> https://health.clevelandclinic.org/sociopath-personality-dis...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Physician,_heal_thyself
"Like an unskilled doctor, fallen ill, you lose heart and cannot discover by which remedies to cure your own disease."
Keeping bicyclists off the road hurts no one. There are cars, public transit, Uber/Lyft, sidewalks+crosswalks, etc. No one is entitled to be able to ride a bike on the road in the same way that no one is entitled to be able to transport themselves via jetpack. If it can't be orchestrated in a way that deters misbehavior, then it's not a workable construct.