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Originally Posted by Busy Bee
^Good stuff.
Though I have always felt that American light rail projects tends to over rely on aerial structures where trench cuts and underpasses would be much more aesthetically pleasing and long-term sustainable. This is often the practice in Europe with stronger land use standards and a finer tuned cultural investment in low-impact design but often American projects that are at the whim of a political term often are engineered by the lowest common denominator, even if that means it's ugly and/or you're tearing it down and rebuilding it in 50 years.
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Have any modern light rail projects in the USA been torn down and rebuilt in the last 50 years? 60 years? 70 years? Vehicles have been replaced, but have any elevated light rail structures been replaced?