Human Transit's Jarrett Walker is amused by the Red Line's Ellerbe Becket-designed Vermont/Santa Monica station: "Striking, certainly, but an entrance so ominous that if I didn't know what it was, I'd guess it was a memorial to a horrible event." The nightmarishness continues down below, where questions cover the walls: "And they're hard questions! Some are almost koans. For example: Was the planning of this public transportation system the best use of public funds?" [Human Transit, image via]
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