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Originally Posted by para transit fellow
so the rationale i hear is:
It is too expensive to build an LRT tunnel now... so we will build an LRT tunnel in the future to save money...
At transit conferences since 2013, I have been hearing how transit tunneling project costs keep rising. It is specialty engineering/ construction and there are many competing projects world-wide.
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Its tradeoffs. We build an expensive tunnel now that delivers questionable value and then spend decades building out length, while still needing another tunnel sooner or later
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We build length now and then a tunnel that delivers significant value sooner than later