This thread is hurting my brain today. Point form is all I can do right now.
- Express trains aren't happening. They would be a bigger nightmare than almost any other solution - possibly excepting moving the CPR out of downtown.
- Next order of LRVs isn't exclusively for 4 car operation. A lot of it is for replacing the older LRVs (U2s) meaning not as many net additional cars.
- Utlimate plans (nothing set in stone but basically moving that way) is to have the south and northwest lines operate in an 8th Avenue Subway, northeast and west lines continue to use 7th Avenue, which could possibly turn into a subway of its own in the very long term. Southeast gets its own subway under 2nd Street West and 10th Avenue South. North central still to be determined.
- 7th Avenue is current bottleneck of entire system due to interlining (all lines share it and converge on it) and having to wait at lights at cross streets. It is over capacity.
- South line is the busiest line by a fair margin. Northeast and Northwest are roughly equal, west is projected to be lowest ridership for the foreseeable future.
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