The station replacement at Harrison is basically a vanity project.

The main problems with the old station buildings were narrow staircases and no elevators. It shouldn’t cost $250 million and 10 years of construction and service disruptions to fix that.

The irony is that most passengers at Harrison spend only 15-30 seconds in the station building itself. Most of the time, people choose to wait outside on the platform.

Yet even once this boondoggle of a project is finally complete, the canopy won’t extend the entire length of the platform to keep people from getting wet in the rain or snow.