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Tip for claustrophobes: Avoid the Porter T stop
By adamg on Tue, 03/08/2011 - 4:46pm
Especially when they remove large numbers of ceiling tiles and you're suddenly reminded you're in the deepest cave in the Boston area.
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The endless escalator ride
The endless escalator ride doesn't remind you?
It wouldn't bother me if they
It wouldn't bother me if they made a point of showing that sort of thing off.
Check out a couple of stations on the Stockholm Metro (which also uses a (T) logo coincidentally): Rådhuset Station, Kungsträdgården station
That is too cool. Whit
That is too cool.
Whit
Our T logo came from Stockholm
Soon after the MBTA was created, one or more people from our transit authority (or maybe from Cambridge Seven Associates) went to Stockholm, saw their circle-T symbol (which means Tunnelbana), and decided to copy it here.
Not an MBTA station
When MBTA stations have ruins, they are actual ruins of neglect and decay, not intended architectural features.
Dirty sound panels
I wish instead of those dirty sound panels, they would cover Porter in Weese-style vaulting (WMATA). Porter is the only station where it would make sense because the station is very Weese-esque to begin with.
More brutalism? No thank you.
More brutalism? No thank you.
I agree. The DC Metro is
I agree. The DC Metro is nothing to emulate, and we've got way too many ugly things around here already. If the earlier poster likes vaults, perhaps something like the City Hall station in NYC?
Only one!
God, I only suggested one Weese vault. I'm not saying to do the whole MBTA with them nor am I suggesting to make the MBTA like WMATA at all because I'm well aware how terrible WMATA is.
This is hardly offensive brutalism, anyways:
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3229/2906773438_74c...
It may not be the absolute
It may not be the absolute worst example of brutalism ever, but we've surely been brutalized enough already. There are many more beautiful things that could be done with Porter Sq. than to make it look as though the ceiling is a giant waffle.
and when it rains
Everytime it rains ( which is 3 or 4 times a week) they shut off the down escalator at Porter because water drips from the ceiling down on people . btw, they have not fixed this problem for over 20 years as of today April 2nd 2011.