South Station - Ch..Ch..Ch..Changes

If it’s time to build the third tallest building in Boston on top of it, the least they could do is get some better signage. South Station has caused more than one headache for us. The most recent frustration, of course, has been the new CharlieCardTicket fares, followed closely by the up and down maze of stairways to get from the Red Line to the Silverline or vice versa. We’ve always wondered, but never really questioned, why the canopy can’t extend that tiny little bit to keep us covered when going from train to bus. After learning that the South Station tower proposal is still moving forward, they’ve cut the height to make the FAA happy about interference with Logan traffic, today we learn that while things change, things still stay the same. The [insert onomatopoeia here] of the schedule board will remain in South Station, even after they upgrade the sign from mechanical to digital. The sound of the board as it adjusts for arrivals, departures, and changes isn’t something that we’ve gotten used to just here in Boston but a familiar sound we’ve heard anywhere in the country and the world when we’ve taken the train. Critics were quick to call the decision silly and worthless, Bostonist thinks that a city steeped in history is well served when we preserve some of the old when incorporating new technologies. How this applies to the tower to be built on top of South Station? It doesn’t – we don’t think that’s necessary.

Ok, so we took this photo quite a while ago. They've cleaned up a bit "under" but it's all we got.