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Originally Posted by getbak
You can see where the tunnel splits off from the current route in this video at around 1:01.
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It would seem more apt for the Blue Line, then? It would be almost a 315 degree angle to turn back to Vic Park station from there? Compared to a 135 degree angle to link up with the Blue Line...
Probably a similar problem at the west end of DT, too?
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Originally Posted by Roughneck
The potential capacity increases would be significant. The bottleneck for both lines is 7th Ave. Separating the lines basically frees up a lot of headway. If you're on 7th Ave now, replace every Red Line train with a Blue Line Train (or vice versa), and the frequency increase would be noticeable.
Now that is just a potential capacity increase since actually maxing that frequency with the necessary cars would be a multi-billion dollar endeavor on it's own.
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Do we really need that massive of an increase? Wouldn't getting away from stop lights alone be enough that you could run both Red and Blue on the same line a whole lot more efficiently?
It all still seems crazy to me - I would have thought that drilling the actual tunnel would be the biggest expense? Building indoor stations and access points would of course be more expensive than what we have now, but by how much?