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Originally Posted by powderjunkie
i'm sure everyone knows this, but it would dropping from 3 lanes to 1 lane at each rush hour. Yikes. For the limited benefit of phase 1 of this whole thing, i think it would make the entire project a net negative impact on moving people around this city (or at the very least across the river). How does that not threaten the future viability/support of the line extensions?
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Agreed, I think it's going to be a nightmare. Even with 3 lanes in the peak direction, it's pretty easy to jammed up. There was a tweet from the City about a jam caused by a stall that struck me because there were 7 buses trying to go north in the same frame. I don't see how it's going to work with one lane and all these buses still trying to run.
https://twitter.com/user/status/1187879423875276800
Perhaps the goal is to be so bad that it forces the UCP/Federal governments to chip in a few hundred million more to allow for a shallow tunnel.
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i wonder if they could cut into the eastern escarpment and realign the road lanes between 2 ave and 7 aven, leaving space for the new line to integrate at surface, and sink into a cut/cover portal far enough south of 7 ave (retaining 4 lanes south of 16th in the long run). Cut and cover until north of 16th ave (relatively short construction bottleneck, too).
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Gian-Carlo Carra seems to indicate that they can't afford any tunnel at this time:
https://twitter.com/user/status/1223835321168580613