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Originally Posted by kevman
If you weren't connecting the lines I'd think it makes sense to re-introduce the Centre St. station and hopefully a 4th/5th St. station and maybe even an 8th St. station. That helps to alleviate the concern of transferring at a single station. This would actually bring a lot of riders closer to their workplaces than the current layout.
Really I'm just spitballing over here because we currently have a train alignment that isn't working for whatever reason. Without actually knowing the segmented costs it's hard to actually say what makes sense. If the downtown crossing is the reason that we're not getting a North Central line and the SE line is stopping short, than maybe it makes sense to re-evaluate the need to cross downtown.
Or, maybe all 3 levels of government need to realize that this is a $15 billion project, increase their funding commitments, and just get on with it. But that's probably not a very popular opinion either.
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The two lines need to connect or you have to have two storage/maintenance facilities.
I guess you could make the north central line an extension of the end of the current blue line line that crosses by the airport and comes back down Centre to 16th Street or even end at Eau Claire. That would make use of the existing red/blue facility. You'd have to do high floor though.