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Originally Posted by You Need A Thneed
^The additional billion dollars it would cost to build that route could go a long way to buying up houses and covering the costs of elevated rail.
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No matter what you want to imagine that route I suggest would cost the route going straight up Centre Street for the entire distance would cost WAY more. Why? Because the route is the exact same past 41st Ave, going up Centre Street, the difference is that south of 41st street the route I suggested uses open land and does not require the procurment of a huge amount of already developed land and buildings along Centre in it's most dense area.
The route I suggest is going to be WAY cheaper then doing the entire route up Centre, it is designed to avoid the most expensive section of the Centre Street dream, spending hundreds of millions of dollars just buying out people and buildings before you can even START construction of the line.
What about that line would offend you? Do you really think missing the inner city communities that have very good and fast transit options already is a major issue? If so I don't get your point and figure this is just a soapbox issue for you that you like to argue about and you want a centre street line because you think it would be cool and not because of the actual practical reasons. There is no reason to push and spend 1 billion extra dollars to have the NC LRT line on Center south of 40th Ave, it is NOT NEEDED THERE, they are already well served by a quick transit option.