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Originally Posted by timun
Where would you put the maintenance and storage facility for the LRVs? Doing the north-central line first was never under serious consideration because the MSF was always planned to be built at Shepard.
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This is circular reasoning. They put the maintenance facility in the south because politicians wanted to do the south first. There are a number of choices in the North. Aurora, somewhere in Keystone, you could even do the highland park golf course...
I don't live near either line, but the North central is saturated bus lines that can't be expanded because of road capacity. That is exactly when lrt has the best benefit.
Given budget constraints, they almost certainly should have built the north as lrt and built the south section as brt to grow ridership and then upgrade when justified/funds available.