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Originally Posted by frinkprof
Moving the tracks is all but an impossibility on just about every front you can think of. Legal, political, financial, logistical, temporal, practical.
The tracks are here to stay and the underpasses ought to be so much better functionally, structurally and aesthetically.
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I think the main reason it's continuously brought up is that intuitively it seems like it would be such a simple thing to accomplish. Most people who have been paying attention realize that there are significant and complex issues, but in the interest of simplification, is there actually a set of numbers to quantify the difficulty?
I.e., assume that the proper approvals have been granted from every level of government and everyone is on board. What is the time and dollar cost? Once you have that you can address these comments much more quickly and decisively; i.e. "it would cost X million dollars and take X months to accomplish even if you could get approval" would shut people up pretty quickly.