It's because there's no-one bibbing their horns isn't it?

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(who am I kidding)

When I lived there Americans would act like I was suffering because I chose to ride my bike home. They would push to give me a ride really hard.

If I tried to take a bus, they would rather drive me around than let me take the bus.

They were very kind, but god they are confused

I'd be less concerned about noise and more so flying debris. Interstates are dangerous in that flying debris can be as bad as chunk of spare iron flying.

Maybe OP was complaining about the noise the trains make from the perspective of the cars? /s

Meanwhile Germany near Stuttgart Airport to Ulm:

I'd say it's ease of access and kind of makes sense to put it near the streets. Why destroy the environment more in unique places rather than within the street area which already has seen impacts of it through road traffic.

Though this railway is not 100% of the time near the highway.

Sometimes. Sometimes they create highways in the USA that have a huge gap in the middle so they can add more lanes in the future if needed. Those gaps can sometimes be repurposed for public transport. It's really just lobbyists that have pushed for cars since 1940 so the rich fucks can get richer by selling more cars. America has shit transportation so we can ensure the worst people in society get richer and richer.

This should make it feel more alien:

That station is in the middle of a 4 lane express way in both directions 90e and a 2 lane each way highway 90, which itself is wrapped on the outide with a 2 lane each way local arterial,

why the fuck should I even care about it.

Because US culture has a world wide influence, for better or for worse. Lately it is mostly for worse.

We do have train lines passing highways, including stations near them, but not designed like this, never at the same level without barriers. It's always dozens of meters apart and with more elevation, sometimes on train bridges.

That’s the electrified third rail.

I think there's 4 rails there. I believe the 1 on the outside is the electrified 3rd rail, the middle is the outside rail, the left is a rail to prevent derailed trains from entering the road, and the 4th rail is not visible in this video.

Here's another perspective of that station:

Also fun fact, there's 2 Garfield Stations in Chicago.

It’s the frame rate I notice more than the resolution. I think it’s shot at 60fps.

Seems like it serves at least an entire university and has a dedicated pedestrian bridge.

Dunking on US public transport is easy and fun, so I sympathize, but if we do attempt public transportation it's generally not needlessly stupid. Sometimes it ends up stupid anyway, but I try not to hate unnecessarily. It seems pretty close to the university, and I'm sure there are reasons why it's in the middle of a highway.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garfield_station_(CTA_Red_Line)

Public transpiration in the US is woefully inadequate, so you won't see me defending it's current state too much. But there is a logic to a line following a highway; clearly this thoroughfare has the demand of people to get from point A to point B; that's why there's a highway there.

You realize that people live in cities and not just in suburbia right? They also work and go to school in cities. What the hell are you smoking?

Nobody has responded in this thread about why the way this is built is good ([...]), offered solutions or agreed that it's just stupid and shouldn't be this way.

Isn't that refreshing? The video is only 22 seconds long. It's just enough context to show that the highway noise is indeed noisy there.

Most of us don't know what the requirements were when planning and designing this station. Most of us probably never had to plan/design these things. Too many people on the Internet speak with an authoritative tone despite being ignorant of the subject matter. I see no harm in letting a conversation be free of armchair experts.

The other side of the station probably has a destination. There’a also one like this in Boston; right against I-93 South on one side, stores and neighborhood on the other. They’ve just crammed all the transit into the smallest corridor possible.