07-22-2024, 07:16 PM
It should have been built correctly in the first place is all. I know everyone likes to point to the cost, but look at the price tag for the second line to Cambridge. It was always going to be costly, so we should have just tunnelled or elevated it where necessary to avoid any street interaction and extremely slow turns instead of going with the AliExpress LRT. It was going to get built anyway, the same way the Cambridge one will despite the hate it gets. That choice to not go all in on this project has forever handicapped at least this first line, then most certainly most of the one in Cambridge as well for reasons the video points out. Over the coming 30, 40, 50 plus years from now when millions live here, they're just going to have to redo the whole thing due to how dense the city is going to grow along the present route.
It was poor long term planning, anyone in the transit or built environment sphere would easily agree with that. In a way, it has been handicapped the same way the Chicago loop handicaps its transit system.
It was poor long term planning, anyone in the transit or built environment sphere would easily agree with that. In a way, it has been handicapped the same way the Chicago loop handicaps its transit system.