NEW YORK | World Trade Center Memorial & Transit Hub

[Darias060]

I had no idea they opened a new platform until my train rolled in to my surprise! Here are some extra pictures I took yesterday afternoon.


All images from my facebook page: http://www.facebook.com/david.arias87

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[Hypothalamus]

As of February 24th, 2014...


World Trade Center Complex Construction Site with Transportation Center by david_shankbone, on Flickr


As of February 27th, 2014...

Steel Arch segments and Upper Portal Steel on the Westside of the Oculus.

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As of February 28th, 2014...

PATH train excavation work continues on Platform “D” at WTC Transportation Hub.

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[jd3189]

Originally Posted by drumz0rz

Some photos from today's opening:
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Source:CBS News
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Source:CBS News

Maybe I've been too acquainted with the industrial-looking feel of NY/NJ train stations but the older PATH trains look out of place in comparison to the rest of the newer station.

[nyc_alex]

I think the trains look fine. They are fairly new.

My fiancee who takes this for work every day during morning rush notes that they could use more stairs/escalators from the platform to the mezz. It gets a little backed up just when the train arrives in the morning.

I think it looks great, though I would like to see platform doors too. I guess that requires a smarter rail system which just isn't in place yet.

[donoman100]

Originally Posted by tubeworm

As of February 24th, 2014...


World Trade Center Complex Construction Site with Transportation Center by david_shankbone, on Flickr

It looks like they've started installing the "wings" if you look at the lower corner of the superstructure

[drumz0rz]

Good eye! It does look like the first wing tip has been installed! So exciting... This thing is impressive in person.

[N830MH]

Originally Posted by Submariner

That is a seriously nice looking platform.

I agree with you. It's so beautiful! When it will completed? What's next?

[drumz0rz]

Took this on my cell phone this afternoon. You can see the first wing/spike is in place. Also, notice the interior on the left, the smooth seamless arches.

[LMich]

Maybe it's buried somewhere back in thread, but is there a map/diagram anywhere on the PATH track configuration for this station and/or Lower Manhattan as a whole?

[drumz0rz]

If you're looking for subway track / station diagrams there's no better source than Peter Dougherty's book Tracks of the New York City Subway. I have the 2013 edition which includes the PATH system however I believe it shows the temporary WTC PATH Station diagram. I'm not sure if the new 2014 edition reflects the planned terminal.

You can also find some older more generic subway maps on NYC Subway.org

[ILNY]

At Trade Center Transit Hub, Vision Gives Way to Reality
MARCH 5, 2014
By DAVID W. DUNLAP

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/06/ny...l?ref=nyregion

How can a $3.94 billion building be made to look cheap?
Clunky fixtures and some rough workmanship in the underground mezzanine of the World Trade Center Transportation Hub, a small part of which opened last week, detract from what is meant to be breathtaking grandeur.

Ten years ago, the architect Santiago Calatrava and the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey seduced a large audience, this reporter included, with a vision of a dazzling new PATH train station rising at the trade center site.
Where ground zero was dark, misshapen, jagged and sorrowful, the transit hub was to be brilliant, smooth, pristine and promising
That vision may yet materialize. Some flaws that are now visible can and probably will be fixed. And when the station fully opens in 2015, the whole of it may be so spectacular that little shortcomings are easy to overlook.
“We will deliver to New York a great space,” Mr. Calatrava said this week.

It is hard not to notice the loose threads, however, since Port Authority executives and state officials have boldly invoked Grand Central Terminal as the model for the trade center hub. Grand Central owes its enduring appeal both to monumental spaces and to an abundance of meticulously crafted detail.

A 118-foot-long mosaic mural, “Iridescent Lightning,” was given to the city in 2003 by the regional government of Friuli-Venezia Giulia in Italy. It was installed on the wall opposite the new Platform A. After it went up, a train signal was erected directly in front of it.

In the renderings, columns flowed seamlessly into beams. In reality, there are highly visible joints and connecting pins where structural elements meet.
Lighting fixtures are noticeable on many beams as well, where they have been attached to the surface rather than recessed. If such a thing can be imagined, they look like albino garden slugs (less the feelers) nestled in abstract tree limbs.

[miesian]

With such a tight budget, they were forced to go to Home Depot.

[Camstonisland]

With such a tight budget, they were forced to go to Home Depot.

While they were there, why didn't they get some plaster to cover those beams? Just a few quid more.

[SidewalkSuper]

that the architects, design engineers, fabricators, construction engineers, financial managers, construction workers, et al did not have the benefit of Mr. Dunlap's extraordinary expertise as they made their flippant analyses and decisions as they brought this project to this point.

[rjb001]

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[JZeig1]

Originally Posted by miesian

with such a tight budget, they were forced to go to home depot.

lol

[NYCLuver]

March 8th, 2014

[jamesinclair]

Originally Posted by drumz0rz

I love the attention to detail. The warning strip is white not yellow, the 3rd rail guard is white not yellow... It's a very clean, modern platform..

Actually, its a lack of attention to detail.

ADA requires that the warning strip have high contrast so those with poor eyesight can clearly see it.

By using grey, rather than yellow or red, PATH as guaranteed a lawsuit loss.

[ardecila]

Not necessarily. Officials are often risk-averse so they spec federal yellow or bright red for detectable warnings just to cover their ass (or because they're cheap/easy to get) but other color combinations have been shown empirically to be just as effective.

http://www.access-board.gov/research...ials/2-results

In this study, a dark gray warning against a white sidewalk was visible to 100% of participants at an 8' distance. This is identical performance to bright red and better than federal yellow. Even light gray warnings fared better than yellow.

[drumz0rz]

Also, the warning strip is textured. If it works for the blind, it should work for the poor-sighted as well. Current PATH stations only feature a thin (2" maybe?) yellow strip along the platform edge that isn't textured at all.