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“That is the part causing the biggest problem. It’s a cost overrun. It is going to be an engineering nightmare. It’s not in sync with the rest of the way their system works. There are underground river systems and that is what they have to rethink.”
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Not that I expect the UCP to be factual in any way, isn't the "underground rivers" thing total nonsense? It always gets trotted out when people are frustrated about the Red/Blue lines running at-grade, despite the real reason it is above ground: the governments of the day favoured the immediate cost over the long-term benefit.
If these underground rivers are so prohibitive, why does every skyscraper downtown have multi-level underground parkades that aren't all swimming pools? Is the public really expecting that as soon as they start digging, the engineers will say "oops - we've hit water! Danielle was right!".