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A lot of resistance to change by the "old guard" within the city.
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You can say that again. Both Transit and Roads have their own agendas. City Hall can only do so much if there's new people moving here each and every day of the week. Its not just Transit that needs money. There's Waste and Recycling,Roads, Fire, Police, EMS and many other things.
I like the idea of 4 car trains as much as anyone else but for them to actually do that they would literally have to shutdown a station at a time on the NE line and maybe some of the other older stations on the other lines. For example: Marlborough station, they would have to do construction work on the platform to extend it and before that they would have to move a lot of the electrical boxes and substation equipment somewhere else. That's a lot of work. They can't have people go on the platform while that's going on. So they probably would have the trains just passby and not stop there. That would mean those people would either have to goto Franklin,Rundle,Whitehorn or somewhere else to catch a train or bus. That's a pretty busy station. Even a few days of being shutdown will cause problems.