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Originally Posted by PepsiFree
This is probably dumb but I don’t entirely understand why they don’t just reveal their grand master plan for the train lines and then just chip away at it station by station starting from downtown outwards. Even if they’re only completely 1-2 stations every 1-2 years, wouldn’t that be easier?
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Well first you have to start with where to store / manage the trains... so the first station would not / cannot be downtown.
Having a train that connects only Sheppard to Quarry Park might benefit... 1000 people? of which only 10 percent would use it?
Then you have to factor in that when you don't have plans solidified, as we have seen, any new person getting involved changes things dramatically. You have someone new come in, spend time and wages learning your design, deciding they don't agree and spend more time and wages re-designing. Then you also, as you've seen, forego all the lessons learned to make new mistakes that were already previously avoided.
Further to that, trying to build in stages puts you at the threat of supply issues and other interfacing issues. For example, a manufacturer no longer makes the type of track you want in mass quantities, so you're forced to pay custom order fees.