It might be prettier,
and the gates are indeed wider and easier to maneuver your luggage
through, but boy, the fact that the new Airport stop on the Blue Line
is on ground level sure was an unpleasant surprise. Now when you’re heading inbound,
you have to go UP the escalaters, OVER the tracks, and back DOWN again.
OTOH, it’s a little like paying tolls only one way, because I guess
people heading to the airport from the T don’t need to negotiate
escalators at all… and, I suppose, it’s the people rushing to catch a
flight for whom the station was designed.
It was also annoying that the bus dropped us off quite a way from
the station, while the old, funky, ugly station had the bus pull
right up to the curb.
Finally, I found this piece of T propoganda amusing. It reads in part:
The new Airport T Station, built 500
yards east of the former station, combines outstanding design with
functionality. Features of this state-of-the-art facility include:
enlarged fare collection turnstiles, new elevators and escalators,
flight status monitor displays and a glass curtain wall.
A
glass curtain wall?
