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Originally Posted by JACKinBeantown
I like option 3. It's as direct a route as before, plus it will allow all those people driving in heavy traffic on I-35 to see the train moving faster than their cars.
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I would prefer detours into the downtowns of New Braunfels and San Marcos, though, built parallel to the existing tracks in each city. An amazing additional benefit of this is not only helping to densify the area, but it will help drive ridership with additional stops at two current major potential ridership drivers (Schlitterbahn and Texas State University) but also two other future potential drivers via office space development and VMU residential in the downtowns of both cities. Trust me, that would be INCREDIBLY smart, because higher ridership is a strong normative consideration.