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Originally Posted by Torture
Sure, but the original at least built the core of the line with an eye to the future. Now the north will suffer for the next what...50 years? As a (inner) north resident right near Center Street I was okay with the previous trade off. Now we probably won't see a train in my neck of the woods until my toddler is approaching retirement age, if ever.
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If you can spend less money in the DT and SE, funding for the NC can be available earlier. With the Green Line plans, there still was no time line for the NC since it would all depend on the tunnel and SE getting funded and finished first
And if you don't need to connect the NC and SE, there can be more flexibility. Something like this (In the 2020 review, this was about 15% more expensive than a contiguous 16th Ave to Shepard with tunnel ):
