ION Stage I: what would you do differently?

[timc]

I think the Uptown split was unnecessary, and I wish it hadn't happened. From what I remember, it wasn't possible to have doubled tracks north of the spurline crossing at King, so a split was needed when the tracks were to go up to Erb Street. IIRC, it would have been possible to run double tracks to the spurline, but by the time that alignment became possible the decision had already been made to split the two directions through Uptown.

I also think that putting a station at Waterloo Park was less than ideal, and I would have rather seen a stop at University and at Columbia. Losing the iXpress stop at McCormick wasn't great either.