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Yesterday's Raleigh News and Observer reported the additional Federal funding will be announced today for a project to convert a vacant Raleigh warehouse into a new Union Station with more parking and much more space.
The new Amtrak platform would be across the tracks and a little northeast of the existing Raleigh Amtrak Station. The warehouse itself sits inside the active 'Boylan Wye' so both pedestrian and vehicular traffic would have to access the station via underpasses which would be constructed beneath the east leg of the wye.
Here are some links to demonstrate what's going on -
Several Views of the Vacant Warehouse
Artist Rendering of finished statiom
Article with diagram of station area
Note that the existing Raleigh Amtrak Station is the structure between points 9 and 5 in the diagram.
Article from Raleigh News & Observer
With this latest grant in addition to one awarded earlier, as well as a bond proposal which passed in Raleigh last fall, construction on the new Raleigh Union Station could begin in the fall of 2013.
The new Amtrak platform would be across the tracks and a little northeast of the existing Raleigh Amtrak Station. The warehouse itself sits inside the active 'Boylan Wye' so both pedestrian and vehicular traffic would have to access the station via underpasses which would be constructed beneath the east leg of the wye.
Here are some links to demonstrate what's going on -
Several Views of the Vacant Warehouse
Artist Rendering of finished statiom
Article with diagram of station area
Note that the existing Raleigh Amtrak Station is the structure between points 9 and 5 in the diagram.
Article from Raleigh News & Observer
With this latest grant in addition to one awarded earlier, as well as a bond proposal which passed in Raleigh last fall, construction on the new Raleigh Union Station could begin in the fall of 2013.