The brt isn't the model from this line, at least not the north part. It's replacing a critical amount of routes and buses. The low floor trains inconjuctuon with the lower sidewalk like stations (which are much much much.. Much cheaper) then the massive ones make it easier to do it this way.
Yes the project is expensive but that's because we're doing it the right way with tunneling and underground stations downtown. If you truly want to model it the old way then fight against subway'ing it.
More stations along center St is a must, all the ridership is there already. Yeah, it might add 8-10 minutes per trip from the furtherest route but that's fine.
Someone like frink or Bunk can speak better to all this though.
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