Are Deep Subway Stations a Problem?

[bus man]

Originally Posted by Hemlock140

Then there is the problem of crime down in and around the tunnel station, such as our Westlake Light Rail station.

https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle...itated-murder/

https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle...hird-and-pine/

https://www.q13fox.com/news/id-neede...lowing-dispute

This is a Seattle problem, not a deep station problem.

[MidValleyDad]

On a different note you could ask the Ukrainians if deep subway stations are a problem. Their subway system, like most in the old Warpac countries and the Soviet Union was built deep to also serve as bomb shelters up to and including nuclear weapons. Lots of dirt over you has its advantages.

[grega94]

The biggest issue is that transfers between the two lines would be quite the hike which makes transferring from one line to the next inconvenient. The existing downtown transit tunnel stations seem to be pretty wide, not sure why they can’t just add bypass rails in the center lanes, since the buses have already been kicked out? Or perhaps build another platform in the center to make on boarding and off boarding faster, so not sure why multiple lines can’t operate there?

[Ruth4Truth]

The metro in St. Petersburg, Russia, is one of the deepest in the world: deeper than 200 feet, due to the fact that the city is built on a river delta, so the metro needed to go far below the river.

No earthquake issues. It's very spacious (palatial, intentionally, and highly decorative), so no one has claustrophobia, in spite of the hordes crowding the platforms.

Due to the city's unique geology, the Saint Petersburg Metro is also one of the deepest metro systems in the world and the deepest by the average depth of all the stations. The system's deepest station, Admiralteyskaya, is 86 metres (282 ft) below ground.

I'm not sure I'd trust Seattle to do a good job, though. When they built the bus tunnel under downtown, it had chronic seepage. That didn't inspire confidence.

There was a long time time when Russian engineering was on a par with its German counterpart. That's because Germans set up the original engineering academies in Russia, and Russia maintained relations with Germany to continue updating the curricula. The metros were designed and built during the right era. IDK about Seattle engineers...