Albany's bus station shows our transportation caste system [View all]
ALBANY — Chuck Schumer came around a few weeks ago to tout that the airport would receive $29 million in the proposed federal infrastructure package that will probably be approved by Congress, unless it somehow isn't.
Schumer, the Senate majority leader, said the money would kick start an expansion of Albany International and pay for improvements that should make it easier to get in and out of the place. The region, the Democrat added, needs a modern and well-maintained airport.
Well, of course it does. The region also needs a bus station that isn't a civic disgrace.
I'm talking, obviously, about the squalid downtown Albany bunker located among the depressingly empty acreage of the Parking Lot District, the building of concrete walls, dirty mop buckets left unattended and battered vending machines. It's the place that so perfectly illustrates our transportation caste system.
Those who ride the train to and from Rensselaer enjoy a comfortable $53 million building built in 2002. A new $23 million train station in Schenectady opened in 2018 — which "telegraphs to the world that we're prepared for the future," said Kathy Hochul, lieutenant governor at the time.
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