DarloRich
Veteran Member
Um... I think the original post here asked people for their examples of good and bad station design. We are all entitled to our opinions and if they don't conform to your ideas then you don't have the right to have a go at other people.
Modern stations are all smoke and mirrors; why do we need a big glass mess for Oxford*, when the current station buildings work well? Yes, they may have some flaws (such as being built in the 1980s and the colours are a bit NSE), but every aspect of the station is easy to navigate.
*Example.
what on earth are you talking about? big glass mess?
The station at Oxford is a disgrace for such a tourist destination. it is completely shambolic.
A station should be designed to follow the Equalities Act, yes, but building a large glass thing at Oxford or Kidderminster won't help anyone. Surely someone with poor sight would prefer the red and blue of the current Oxford, which can easily be identified, as opposed to the bland and colourless station building which has been proposed? Modern art around a station, whilst it may look pretty, is a waste of space when that space could be designed to hold a ticket machine or two.
so, essentially, what you are saying is that only stations that look like stations have always looked like are acceptable and that no new methods, styles, techniques or materials may be used in building a station. Your point about colours shows you really have no idea what you are on about.
Please name a modern station which, in your own experience, is easy to get around. Birmingham Snow Hill is a good example of a station which, when designed, was planned to be the best thing since sliced bread, but is now just a mess and people who just want to get to the platform for their train can't.
Unlike most posters here I have never found a station difficult to get around. Perhaps I am just lucky.
How can people not get to their platform at Snow Hill? it was used by c.4.2m people last year. I have no idea what you are on about? None.
I think you'll find that people on here probably know more than "normals". People who have posted on this thread obviously have an interest in the subject and have therefore almost 100% of the time spent a long time looking into the subject. Please note that, as I said at the beginning of this post, your ideas are not the same as everyone else's. We all meet people in the world who don't share the same ideas as us and very few of us feel the need to moan and moan about them all because we're all different.
Sorry but posters here absolutely do not know more than normal people. Normal people are the people stations are designed for not the self appointed experts here.