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Originally Posted by Torture
The rest of the thing isn't going to be as expensive, they are doing the hard part including tunneling first. Hardest part that is left is getting over the river and then it's a lot simpler project.
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accord knows his #### on this.
The north is "simple", but it's not necessarily cheap, and there is some uncertainty on utility alignments for certain sections (I forget the exact details but I got learned up on this by someone smrt a while back).
IMO the biggest problem is the assumption that the "hard part" has to be done at all. Connecting N and SE is nice, but not a need. You do have to go over or under the heavy rail tracks for the SE (actually you don't for a BRT...)
The hub and spoke design still makes sense, but transit has become waaaaay less downtown-centric in recent years. But if you're going to spend billions on tunnels, then 8th Ave would deliver way better value, and open up a bunch of possibilities for getting the SE line to the core (I'd skip Inglewood and link up with the red line around 42nd Ave, but there are other options, too).
But adding a fifth line to 7th ave is the dumbest idea in the history of dumb ideas and Dreeshen should commit seppuku for suggesting such a thing (but of course he has no honour to restore to begin with...)