DivMiler
Lead Service Attendant
A most interesting article at Slate that I first saw a reference to on FlyerTalk. While New York Penn (NYP) is not my "home" station, I do use it occasionally and it is confusing to get around. It has a lot of observations that I hadn't thought about -- as well as the discipline of "wayfinding" -- determining how to best move people from one place to another.
As I was reading it, I was thinking airports in general seem to do a fairly good job of getting people from one place to another inside the airports, even though they may have scores of different airlines operating there. Did the old Union stations (from where several railroads operated) do a good job of getting passengers from one railroad to another? How well does Chicago Union Station work now, with Amtrak and Metra and ??? operating out of there?
As I was reading it, I was thinking airports in general seem to do a fairly good job of getting people from one place to another inside the airports, even though they may have scores of different airlines operating there. Did the old Union stations (from where several railroads operated) do a good job of getting passengers from one railroad to another? How well does Chicago Union Station work now, with Amtrak and Metra and ??? operating out of there?