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Originally Posted by J78704
I wish they had started ten years ago after the first proposal though I’m glad we’re now going underground and that probably wouldn’t be happening from those earlier props. It’s just EXTREMELY disappointing to think we’ll have to wait LONGER than these timelines for additional service lines, like south Lamar or other congested routes.
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S Lamar is probably quite a bit out there.
First we have finishing up the rest of the existing Project Connect (Gold Line light rail, Orange Line north of 183/South of Stassney). I believe that ended up being a requirement of the Prop A "contract with the voters" if any additional funds became available.
Potentially next in line might be a light rail spur through North Burnet Gateway/Domain. By then, this area will be our densest, most populous area without light rail. Since they ended up terminating the blue line at NLTC, this could be functionally an extension of that line. This option actually made it into some of the initial Project Connect planning documents, but was scoped out.
I think only then would we (at least IMO only then) look at converting the existing lines. Probably we'd be adding new BRT-light/metrorapids before this point as well.