How to Plan a Good Railway Station 

As a Dutch person, I really like Utrecht centraal station! It's definitely a topic where I want to make a video about. I really had a laugh when you mentioned the massive bicycle parking garage at Amsterdam Centraal station ;)

Good video! I am personally irritated when I see single elevators in transit systems. Ever since going to Hong Kong, where transit elevators always seem to occur in pairs, I have realized the importance of redundancy. Whenever one is out of operation, you can take the other. Because Toronto has retrofitted their old stations with only single elevators, it means that mobility challenged people would have to go to a different station to use transit when the elevator doesn't work. This is crazy. Putting in a second elevator when you put in the first has a cost, but it is a cost you would bear if you truly care about the customer experience.

A good station is when your station and its vicinity practically become a town centre of that area, where people expect to come here everyday for all sort of daily activity. Mostly Singapore and Hong Kong, where new housing development put a station as the focal point, would be the best example. Also it would be cool if your train station can do more than its supposed function, such as civil defense. Most underground stations of Singapore are air raid bunker with necessities prepared all the time. There was one big flood in KL where a huge station has function as victim shelter for weeks. Wonder if there is other examples?

arguably a country with little rail transport could use good railway stations more than countries with more and better rail services- if only because a station is the first impression a new passenger gets for any rail system

Great points as always, I do think all stations can have a shop though. Even if its just a little convinces/store news paper booth type set up. Renting out the far ends of a platform creates either a revenue stream for operations, or a low cost space for a small business to start operating. And having eyes on the station makes users feel a little safer. Another things I would add are Public washrooms at most rail stops or BRT stops. Overhead development is great in dense cities, and provides some revenue to keep the station kclean and built in users, and as mentioned TOD for community centers in general.

Most important station design element IMO is reducing walk time (both within the station and getting to the station). If you have to walk 7 minutes just inside the station (like some Chinese metros) just to get onto a train, that makes metro less competitive to the car. On the outside, the stations should have doors access points from multiple directions and be located in a high density zoned neighborhoods. Putting a station next to say a huge used car dealership lot is a huge waste. A good transit engineer should consider walk time in seconds for all contingencies and work to minimize it.

As a Canadian who has visited Japan numerous times - clear signage should be one of the fundamentals of a great station. Clearly pointing out transit connections, numbering station exits and making these signs visible is what Japan excels at and what Toronto needs to make improvements on. Even as a visitor to Japan, I could easily tell a friend to meet me at exit 3, or easily navigate throughout a concourse.

I think a good example for ticket machines is Melbourne's suburban network, which has multiple ticket machines at larger station and ticket/customer service counters at larger stations and at some small suburban stations.

Wow Reese! I actually think this is one of your very best videos (and I've followed you for quite a while now) I really love your point concerning shade as the climate changes and your point about passive design elements as opposed to heavy surveillance. Shade is definitely an undervalued aspect of shelter design and passive design is (in my opinion) the best way to encourage good behaviour as opposed to discouraging bad behaviour. I'd love to see some more videos from you about suburbia and (if you're interested) the history of transit planning. I know you're more focused on the future and present day stuff but it would be cool to see you do something like that. Also, would you ever do a collab with other urbanist youtubers??

Chicago has two major train stations next to each other, Ogilvie Station and Union Station, and they couldn't be more different. Although one thing they have in common is they are not directly connected to the city's L system. Ogilvie is modern station (100,000+ riders/day and 16 tracks) with clean sightlines, information monitors, nice retail, and easy access to all the platforms. It also has decent bus connections immediately outside the main entrance. It's an easy station to get into, navigate, get the information you need, and find your track platform. Union Station is a beautiful historic building (140,000+ riders/day and 24 tracks) but it is a labyrinth of claustrophobic corridors, side room, cubby holes, and stairs and escalators, inside. No single corridor runs the length of the station and the turns and elevation changes are sure to leave you totally disoriented relative to where you are inside the station and the streets outside. Finding the platforms can also be difficult. As for bus connections, it has plenty but finding them can also be tricky as the station can be accessed from various sides and once you're in it, it's hard to tell which side you're on. It's a huge shame because the old part of the station is gorgeous.

The sad truth behind shelters and shades often being lacking is that they are often deliberately removed to prevent homeless people from using them. Another unfortunate way in which being unwilling to provide safety for all makes life worse for everyone, especially people with accessibility needs.

Shade is so important, I once had to wait an hour for a train in a heatwave with only glass shelters, I had to sit on the ground in the shadow of the overpass and shuffle along when that skylaser moved too much, one of my worst experiences ever.

I live in DC and a 7 minute walk down on 14th St is U Street station. I liked that when you arrive at a station in DC, there are exit signs posted on the metro signs.

It's shocking how terrible transfers are at many US stations between the local transit (Subway or light rail) and intercity transit. Take for example Atlanta. You have ZERO transfer points between MARTA's subway network, GRTA Buses, the streetcar, and Amtrak. I think Amtrak should be extended close to downtown. It's in the far end of the city.

I think it is necessary to get the right balance when providing shops, catering etc. If a station becomes a destination in its own right it can get uncomfortably crowded and inconvenient for people who are just there to get on or off a train.

In Montreal 65% of people buy their month passes on the first three days of the month. The lineups to use the machines sometimes took up to half an hour.

So glad to see glass shelters mentioned, they're so bad in summertime.

My favourite station is Ueno station in Tokyo. It includes essentials that Reece omitted such luggage lockers and washrooms equipped with heated toilet seats and bidets. The walking surface is an artificial stone that is slip-resistant, whereas here in Australia the best we can offer in our major stations is bitumen. Each section of the station has a name, each exit has a name, and there is excellent internal wayfinding that includes diagrams indicating "you are here".

While not quite in the best location in the city, Amtrak’s 30th street station is iconic and is a good passenger experience. It has regional rail, subway, bus, and pedestrian connections. It’s not enormous or too small, although it could be closer to downtown. The waiting area could be better organized and the stores are just okay, but it’s one of the best in the state.

pretty comprehensive overall, but for many stations, just having a platform at a height so that you actually can get onto the train without climbing exercises, would be a good start. The amount of Amtrak platforms, where a little stool is provided and the train has to stop at that exact spot, so that one door of the train is opened, and then you hope that people climbing down those vertical steps, don't miss that stool on their way down - that is ridiculous. How much money does it cost to upgrade from stood to platform. Also, providing restrooms would be a great addition to most rail stations. Ticketing offices and concession stands all require a certain amount of traffic, but in some ways, convenience and a pleasant experience would help draw traffic in. Bike racks, parking, and convenient bus or other transportation access pretty much makes-or-brakes the mid-size train station, imo. I love large stations that are basically designed like shopping malls or at least airport terminals, and are major transportation hubs, but so far I have to travel in Europe to find those. Recently been through Zurich and Vienna, both great experiences. You basically don't want to leave, that is how nice they are. And both have full grocery stores built in, and the value-add that the surrounding area gets from such stores, is enormous. It's a long way to go here in US, but I still find that huge impressive halls, seem to be the preferred design in the US. For the same amount of money you could build convenient and well functioning stations too. Wonder who allocates these budgets?

One more thing to add, you should add more comfortable sitting benches in Stations. Stations here in Indonesia have terrible reclining standing benches to avoid the homeless from sleeping in the station, which is unfortunate because they just make it inconvenient for people that are waiting for trains

You should look at Freighthouse square in Tacoma Washington for a good example of how a small commuter station can also have stores and be a hub

Maybe I missed it but multiple exits off the platform seems to be often overlooked. go Ajax case in point last time I was through there, there was two stairways & elevator into a narrow tunnel, paint on concrete, very utility grade look. The train cars that stop in front of these stairs were stuffed almost exclusively with Ajax bound passengers, you couldn't walk through them if you wanted to. I imagine it was crazy trying to get through that mess to catch a bus. Also acoustics should be paid some attention, sort of hearing something in a echo chamber platform area, that your not sure if it pertains to you, when your not in your usual station is not the comfortable customer experience you want.

I've been to the Houston Amtrak station. Compared to St. Louis' Intermodal Station and even Kansas City's Union Station, it's a piece of crap. Now, KC is my hometown so I can talk more intelligently about their station. KC's Union Station (a fantastic renovation of a historic building) is currently the terminus of the Streetcar (from which the Main Street Extension is now being built), has shops, restaurants, theaters and museums, and is connected to Crown Center.

I really like my local station. As more projects get completed, it’s really turning into a serious hub for the area and it’s within throwing distance of the interstate.

You're like a rail focused Dr. McKay from Stargate (David Hewlett) lol. love your content dude

This is one of the best videos on this channel and this is one of the best channels on RU-vid. I love Reece's videos like this that are aimed at total laymen like me which don't assume that I know anything (because I don't) and yet still give me working knowledge and an agenda for me to advocate toward. Thanks to what he's taught me, I know all the ways in which my local transit stops can be made superior and can call my local politicians to ask for such improvements, many of which are not even all that expensive. Thanks RMT!

Well done Reece. You deserve it. You might be the hardest working RU-vidr I know!

Fantastic videos, I'm designing a train station for my Architecture Final Projects and this video gonna come in handy

I like the Lithgow station waiting room with its book exchange.

Absolutely agree with all you say

I'm glad you made this video because it lists many reasons why I don't think the REM de l'Est in Montreal is a good project in it's current form. The thing that hurts the most is that most stations will mostly be accessible to cars eventhough the project was announced as a densification accelerator. We're not all nimbys you know

I recently took a train from Lisbon Oriente station and was surprised how bad the station was. My taxi was late, so I arrived in a hurry to catch my train. There was no signs what way to go to the subway, what was to go to the mall like area and what was actually went to the trains. No central display that tells me which platform I need to go to. I missed my train and then there wasn't a ticket office to buy a new ticket for the next train, nor could I find any ticket machines. I bought another ticket online once I found the platform it rides from.

First off, I did notice some new transitions and with that said, I really appreciate the fact that you always put very fitting imagery and videos proving your point with sufficient quality. I raise my hat to you! Onto the topic itself, I think accessibility should also include proper signage and easy ways to get around the station. For instance, King's Cross and Euston in London can feel really overwhelming as a non-local and some regional trains can only be reached by corridors with steps which make you question whether that's an official hallway towards a station, a construction site or an hallway for employees only. Which brings me to the point that a station can inhabit different kinds of transport modes, shops, stores and such. I really appreciate these features but it can be too much. Especially with Kings Cross St Pancras or Birmingham New Street, I had a terrible time navigating through because the former feels like Frankenstein's station with multiple big hubs combined into one without much seperation and the latter has a confusing layout, LOTS of stores and it feels like commerce was the top priority and transport second. It was pretty crowded too due to the layout. That shows how hard a good station in big cities can be because usually, you only extend a station instead of create a new one (as a buiilding anew is expensive) and then you can have way too huge stations which could trump airports at times. Do you think it is because some may fear that a station doesn't have much value if it's built with transportation in mind first? Or do you know of big cities with successful new built stations/hubs?

Ottawa's Line 1 is filled with lessons on what not to do with transit stations. The above ground stations do not provide shelter from sun, wind, rain, or snow and have minimal seating. The distance to the bus stops is too far, especially at Bayview (shown in RM's video) and Hurdman, which exists solely to be a transfer point. It's always fun to see a light fixture swinging hard in the wind, wondering when it will break. And Ottawa gets to see more of this with Line 2, which will go from a working system to more of the same from Line 1 when it opens.

Thx! Now I can build a good and proper Minecraft railway station without worry or extra advice, Thanks alot Rm Transit!

One thing I love about my reagional train is that it was built before the development arroun it. in the 1890's. It hapened that the king (and nobility) really wanted to have mansions in a sea-side town or just make a fast weekend visit, so, they finance an entire railway. The cities that were near the line developed in the direction of the station, moving the town-centers, but this lead to the development around the rails making sence. Today this is the line that moves the most people/day and its end-station is the most busy in the capital.

After watching your video from a couple of years ago about the Vancouver skytrain networks and stations I would like to suggest that you interview a top person in the TTC weather the chief or a planning engineer about the ways in which the Toronto stations are lacking in information for the patrons riding the system and whether they have an interest in lifting Toronto to the level of Vancouver … or even trying to see if they can do better! Instill a sense of competitiveness if possible!!

One controversial station I like a lot is Birmingham New St, it’s in the heart of the city centre. Fairly easy to navigate (although knowing which exit goes where is a problem) and it has lots of shops and is attached to the main shopping centre for bham. It also connects directly to the tramline. Only problem is it’s distance from a lot of the terminating stops for buses serving the city centre. As most buses in bham finish in the city and turn around and go back out.

Excellent video Reece! You really summed up everything that makes a good rail transit hub :D On the topic of Montreal and rail stations, I feel that one area the city could _especially_ improve on is Gare Centrale. At least from what I've seen on Google Maps and online, I get the impression that it very much falls into that same trap as other post-war subterranean terminals. For one thing, it has very confusing pedestrian and transit access, as I counted only four narrow pedestrian entrances, while the best covered access to the nearest Metro stop and bus station at Bonaventure entails a long and winding walk through the Underground City. Also, the problem of prioritizing cars over pedestrians shows up very glaringly in the form of the extremely utilitarian 1960s parkade, with the addition of minimal access to the dark and dingy platforms. Mistakes like confusing intermodal transfers, nonexistent platform amenities, and the prioritization of parking over the fundamental station environment have been made _many_ times in the past. I just hope that Gare Centrale can be better than this someday.

In the last couple of decades, Boston disimproved a couple of their transit stations: Ashmont Station used to look bad and run-down, but at least it gave you good shelter and gave you cross-platform transfer between the Mattapan High-Speed Line and the Red Line or buses and the Red Line; the new Ashmont Station is a wind tunnel, and the cross-platform transfers are just gone. Kenmore Station on the Green Line used to have a nice semi-enclosed bus shelter, and they replaced it with a glass canopy that is completely open on 3 sides, giving much less protection from wind and rain and no protection from the Sun.

The improved safety with more open sightlines seems like one more reason to choose elevated rail and stations over underground ones where it's otherwise a toss-up between the two. I wonder if there's any data showing that violent crime is less frequent in at or above grade stations and trains...

In the small city of Regensburg in southern Germany, the footbridge leads directly into the city's shopping mall.

I am probably one of the few people who appreciates the "New" Ottawa train station. Gorgeous 1960s style (ya, can't believe I said that) and the lighting inside is gorgeous. It could also be a sculpture gallery. I still miss our downtown station.

Regarding the point of shelter, we Hong Konger, who love air conditioning, loves to have shelter against the weather often with part of it as a mall, from where we live all the way along to the rail station and from the rail station to office block, for example in Tsueng Kwan O and the areas around Shatin and Tseun Wan Station. I think this makes travelling by the MTR much safer and more attractive than other forms as my journey is not affected by the weather at all. When building a new station, attention should be paid not only at the station itself but also its pedestrian connections to major destinations around it. Which makes me hate some area such as the along the old Ma On Shan Line section, Whampoa and Southern Horizon where a continuous shelter is easily achievable but leave lots of gap without shelter

One upside to transparent shelters can be that you get some warmth from the sun. Maybe some middle ground that allows for solar gains in the winter and shade in the summer could really up the shelter game.

Great suggestions! I would suggest that you come up with redesigns of problematic real stations of various sizes and locations of stations in Toronto.

My favorite terrible station is the Kassel-Wilhelmshöhe ICE station, nicknamed "the palace of the winds" because the cold winds constantly sweep not only across the platforms, but also through the concourse, making it incredibly uncomfortable to spend any amount of time there unless it's summer. The only places to escape the wind are a few little shops. It's functional, with many long-distance and local trains plus a huge tram stop, but so needlessly uncomfortable.

Recently went to Antwerp and Antwerpen-Centraal is a beautiful station

Please look at London Bridge Station redevelopment- maybe time for a series on large station refurbishments!

I mean in Switzerland most stations have some sort of shop and the only shops open on sundays or long into the evenings, but then by now most settlements have been growing around stations again for the last 30/40 years.

IMO stations with platforms underground, like New York Penn, Brussels Central and Birmingham New Street, are horrible, no matter what the upper storeys are like. Stations with transparent or translucent roof or canopies (like Manchester Piccadilly) are preferable. Have a look at Geoff Marshall’s recent videos where he visited six recently-opened stations in Great Britain to see what facilities these have. They seemed to be pretty well designed. When it comes to ticket and information provision, a few years ago at Munich Hauptbahnhof there was a separate English-speaking desk to help tourists, which I found very useful, despite speaking some German and having travelled in Germany quite a lot for both work and pleasure. In contrast, on one occasion I arrived at Graz Airport, wanting to take the train to Maribor in Slovenia (not too far from the Austrian border). There was no information aimed at tourists and the ticket machines were positively unhelpful. We went to the suburban station where we had to change from the S-Bahn to the inter-city, and fortunately there was a staffed ticket office there where the staff were able to help us. Ticket machines often make sense to the people who know the local system, but are impenetrable to travellers from elsewhere.

I have to agree to the seating factor. It's kinda annoying if you're in a foreign city and waiting for your train back home without beeing able to take a seat. Personally, I think Hamburg Hauptbahnhof (central station) is a good example of beeing a bad train station. Of course it's in the center of the city with good connections, but it has to many passengers passing throu on too less space, seating oppertunities and so on.

My Home Station - Is Reading (UK) opened in1840, it of course has been upgraded many times, In 1989 a new station concourse was added, as well as a multi-level car park, the 1860 ticket office converted into a Pub. Between 2009-2015 the station was upgraded again, new overbridge (with shops) 5 new platforms, new tracks, electrification - Elizabeth Line trains will terminate here. Whilst we only have buses no mass transit, buses depart from both north and south entrances. The station is to the North of the Town Centre, although developments south of the station are increasing. Toronto - I did travel from BMO Field into the city in 2007 I enjoyed the ability to walk between building underground, which of course is down to extreme weather, glad to see Mass Transit plans.

Hey! If you ever want to explain the Barcelona's FGC commuter train line(s), which have a ton of history and was the second commuter train in the world, and also has some pretty ambitious future projects for speed and frequency optimization, I'll be happy to provide you with some footage and info too. Keep up the good work! :D

Some smaller stations in the UK do something which I like: if the passenger flow is typically in one direction when boarding, that platform will have long shelters with lots of room, whereas the opposing platform where people alight trains but don't wait so much have smaller shelters

I think you're missing a crucial element: orientation. This applies mainly to larger stations, but a building where you intuitively know where to go offers a much smoother experience than one where the setup is confusing. Moreover, it will improve the flow of passenger streams, thus creating a much more organized feel. My home station (Leiden, NL) perhaps isn't the prettiest in the country, but its layout makes it very easy to navigate: one platform for trains going south, one for those going north, and a third one for services east.

i like bank station, it's very convenient and you can change between underground lines with ease it's also clean and tidy, so you don't need to complain about the disgusting smell the station connects two important underground lines and easy access to the docklands and waterloo

Having shops close to or inside the station is really convenient and time saving. The stores will serve both transit riders as well as local residents. The local residents might be compelled to shop and if they need to go somewhere else they are already at the station.

The rag falling at 8:48 should be the channel mascot, maybe named Mr. Raggy?

8:47 scarf jumpscare

The integration between train+bus is interesting in Seattle. They're not necessarily owned by the same agency (the rail is Sound Transit vs. the buses are a mix of King County Metro, Community Transit, and Sound Transit), but at least the ORCA card works for all of them. That said, it seems like coordination between the agencies isn't a very high priority. It's never been clear how inter-mode transfers work with ORCA, if they do at all. Even basic rider usability can be kind of questionable. At the recently-opened Northgate rail station, which has four bus bays for connections, most of the video signs announcing incoming buses are so far away from the actual boarding spots that you can't see them; they might as well not exist. Most of the rail stations that I've seen don't have any "next train in N minutes" notifications at all. The Link rail is just a single line right now, but it makes even that single train line into a bit of a mystery.

Some aspects are really important to make a station a good station, while some are just some nice to have options which should be available the larger and more important a station gets. Thus some things which are important to me are wide platforms, easy access also for disabled people, so there should be elevators and platforms with level boarding, and the distances you have to walk should be kept both short and simple. Also signs should be clear, easy to see, and PA announcements should be loud and clear. Also public transit should be nearby a pedestrian bridge or underpass; The more rural it gets a park and ride lot makes sense as well. Sth I hated about services in some places in the US is that you won't be allowed to enter the platform on your own but that you have to wait in the hall until boarding time. I like to decide myself where I want to wait and when I go to the train

Great video! I was also shocked that the Montreal Metro has so few ticket dispensers and I was wondering if it's due to the union seeing them as a threat to their ticket booth employees?

My favorite kind of stations are simple and comfortable. I don't want to descend down fifty meters of escalator and run through a maze of corridors to reach the platform. At the same time, I don't want some crappy stop left out in the elements with no comfort or care.

Did you say Houston - Anthrax station or Houston Amtrak?

How do you keep on coming up with such interesting topics? (And I’m not even all that into transit!)

Since you mentioned Montreal, one thing that would be an improvement is not needing to go to a booth to get a rechargeable transport pass. Also the ability to return the transport pass for a deposit return, which is something I did see as an option in Bangkok.

8:47 I think if more stations had ghost scarfs like this one people would be less bored while waiting for their train.

Excellent video, Reece! I feel like making transit a pleasant experience even when the weather is not nice is often overlooked. As you said in the video, this is especially important in Canada because of the cold winters but also in many places around the world that experience extreme heat. I cannot believe that in a city as cold and snowy as Québec City, the people planning the tramway line there didn’t consider having a weather-protected connection between the main train station and a tram station. Do they expect people arriving in the city by train or by coach bus to just walk 1km outside to a tram stop with their luggage when it’s -25°C and there’s a snow storm?

Keep in mind, not "punishing travelers to your city" also includes staffing the stations with employees who are properly trained and actually want to help those who are not familiar with the city. My experience in San Francisco with BART and MUNI employees who respond to way-finding questions with, "Can't you read?" and react with visible annoyance to having to do their jobs, such as selling tickets, makes the experience of using public transit in that city unpleasant.

Ticket machines seem to be incredibly expensive, I'm guessing in part because of the numerous ways to pay these days. Here in Austin 2 new machines at each rail station for a total of 18 machines cost $1,000,000, which is a lot for only a couple thousand riders a weekday paying $3.50 each. The math surely works out far better for the Montreal metro, but I can see why a system would skimp on ticket machines. And thanks for recognizing the value in park and ride. It seems like transit advocates tend to be too vehemently against it.

Will you ever do a video on Muni Metro?

Can you do a video about the future Belgrade metro? Or the new 200km/h high-speed rail between Belgrade and Novi Sad?

Have you seen ttc public washrooms? There are usually people shooting crack in stalls

Can you talk about Intercity rail and commuter rail and what makes them different from each other?

I think the "have shops" part is overemphasized. Many train stations in Germany are becoming big shopping malls so much, that there isn't enough space left to comfortably reach your trains. (This is made worse by the fact that shops in stations (if they can claim to cover "travel needs") are allowed to open on sundays, where shops elsewhere usually are not.)

My station is well odd.... It has express services directly to london and an hourly regional service plus intercity busses.... But it only has a single through platform active (with the other being abandoned) and a terminus that is facing south. And there is no direct connection to local busses for some reason. And only has started being refurbished post 2010 thats when a enclosed waiting area, car park and new bus stands were built and after that a gate line when a major event happened. And that event is happening again and funding has been secured for reopening of the original platform 1 with a step free accessable foot bridge. So things are on the up apart from the regional service....

The weird part about all of this... is that I ended up thinking along those same lines. (Pun intended) For my Proto-freelance railroad. Part of what you said comes down to finances. Since in North America.. when you look at some suburban networks. Like EXO... the "station" is nothing more than just a slab of concrete and next train signs. Maybe a bus shelter for passengers to wait. Hardly a station. Then when you look at peak hour only networks. Like the West Coast Express; partially sheltered with ticket machines. There really is no middle ground when it comes to railway stations. Especially in North America.

first thing shoud it should e able to handle big ammount of people and train freqency .... in india specially in delhi some metro statons are reaching there limits though they are really well made and modern but still where they lac is handeling the flow of people ... sometimes they are super confusing as well ... i know in western countries population is not the problem but sophistication is what matters to them... but still a train system should be ready for emergency situations as well

I was watching that

Ghost at 8:51

At least the Greater Buenos Aires Area has all this commercial and residential centers around the Commuter Rail stations

Since DB has been awarded the service agreement, it will be curious to know how much involvement they may be in designing stations too!

4:50 *or heat and humidity.... have you been to Dubai in July?

8:48 scarf drop

Is that your scarf at 8:42? :D

I don't think a lot has changed for cookie-cutter architecture. The CPR had a few plans to choose from probably depending on ridership levels. They may have used the same paint as their maintenance buildings which locals came to appreciate when it was time to paint their barns. Public architecture is kind of a fickle . Advanced design may not be appreciated for generations.

Reese: "What makes for railway station?" Me, trying to just get a railway station to Granby: "I'll settle for little tbh"

Hello, currently i'm doing my final project to design a commuter railway station and it has 38.000 sqm area of site. On its surrounding, there are many bus stops within 100 m but they are separated by public park with my station which i can't touch. I just want to know how to deal with it as my lecturer keeps pushing me to find a "direct sense" between the two public transportation

Probably a stupid video idea, but what are your thoughts on the best ways of presenting printed information at, say, bus stops and railway stations? Over here in the UK, it can be an absolute nightmare to find out something as simple as when a bus is due. At some stops there aren't any timetables, at others, there are, but they're presented poorly, and at others, they're actually half decent. Tbh, I wouldn't be surprised if poor quality information is one of the things holding people back from using public transport over here (perhaps another one might be stupid route designs, especially when they loop around housing estates excessively)

As an indonesian a good railway station is a safe and fast transit railway station

Anyone know what happened to his videos from the past month ish? I can’t find the ideal tram video and I wanna

It's amazing how many city planners have no common sense when it comes to station design.

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Ankara metro

San Ysidro station on the SD Trolley had 18 K daily passengers in 2019, more than all but 8 or 9 DC Metro stations. Yet the station facility is Spartan and could definitely use more than just bus shelters.

Today, I will do something different and complaining about Europeans 😂 Europeans love to complain about "mall-style-stations" because... I don't really know why. Some kind of "romanticism"? Do they think that stations must be something like a cathedral for train enthusiasts? I don't really understand. The reality is, like you said, that economic activities into the stations pays for dividends, and help bringing people to the station, even if they do not actually travel. Those people are still bringing money into the station, and they are also able to "take a look" to the service by seeing trains or hearing announcements... That's something like a "advertisement" of the railway service, in my opinion. Having a lot of shops into your station, not only brings money but also keeps decay away and helps the overall passenger experience. My wait for the train, would be better if I had the opportunity to take a coffee or even useful, if I can go to a supermarket. It's a win-win for everyone!