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Originally Posted by nixcity
If they would run a line from the airport down riverside, down congress as close to the capitol as possible, over to lamar/guadalupe all the way to the triangle and have a transfer to commuter rail. I realize a transfer cuts a lot of the would be riders from the burbs, but maybe over time, or real quickly, how much better LR is and tear up the tracks and fix this mess.
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The line we're going to try to float isn't going up Guadalupe/Lamar because the low travel demand doesn't justify taking a lane away on streets that are that busy. It's going out to Mueller, and in some spots without even getting reserved guideway out there either.
See, it's a catch-22 now - can't take away the lane without the suburban riders; can't get the suburban riders without taking away the lane.
So there's really no option going forward in which people can realize how great LR is, because at best we're going to build half-assed sort-of-LR in a part of the city where far fewer people live now or will when built-out (Mueller, at peak, will be nothing compared to Triangle+HydePark). But it's still better than Capital Metro's stupid idea of a completely stuck-in-traffic commuter rail circulator; adding in Riverside and reserved guideway down there at least brings a few more thousand potential passengers.