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| - I love the Union building and the concept of train travel but right now (spring summer 2014) you should avoid this place if you can.
Access to the building is terrible - rickety temporary stairways and plywood passages to nowhere. Front Street is entirely torn up so subway or foot are the only ways to get out of this place. if you take the subway, the service itself is pretty good but the condition of the Union subway station is unbelievably bad. I've taken subways all over the world, in some pretty dodgy cities, and Union Station is among the worst. Narrow crowded platforms, exposed wiring, dripping ceilings, Nice, really nice.
Also, if you are bringing luggage to/from the train station, the stairways are crowded, elevators hard to find and none of the doors seem to have automatic openers. I would not want a senior or any person not already familiar with the layout to try traversing this mess.
Friends who live downtown tell me they are advising visitors who are coming by train to get off at one of the outlying stations and driving 30 or 45 minutes out to meet them rather than try to connect at the Union disaster.
They claim that after the renovations, things will be much better. I hope so, cause they sure couldn't get much worse.
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