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Originally Posted by Hack&Lube
Looking at the big underground LRT station at Westbrook, I think that was a hugely lost opportunity to integrate the station with the mall (redevelop it all).
A lot of bigger cities have their light rail or metro terminals built into shopping/retail complexes which helps pay for infrastructure (income from retail/rent) and also help bring traffic to retailers and create that kind of density to avoid dead-mall syndrome.
This discussion should probably go into the transit thread.
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Westbrook was a huge disappointment in that project. A redevelopment during the LRT expansion should have been done especially considering the growth and resurgence of areas like Killarney, Wildwood, Spruce Cliff, Shaganappi and to a lesser degree Rosscarrock.
I was in Seoul, South Korea last summer and it was amazing how well designed and implemented their transit/subway system was. I rode the rails exclusively during my trip which included taking the train from the airport to my downtown hotel. Every major building had direct or very easy underground connections to the subway lines and it was a join and pleasure to travel on their system (and cheap.) It was somewhat complicated though but that mostly because of the size. Stations spans across three blocks and the trains were about two blocks in length.