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Originally Posted by Future Mayor
I agree 100% cololi.
I have said all along that I think the best route is the 600 West route because if uses the hub as just that, a Central Station(hub). I understand the concern about a viaduct in the 600 W neighborhood and I think the best solution would have been to send Front Runner below grade around 100-300 North and brought it back to the surface at Central Station. Then trax could simply run at grade up 600 N to N. Temple. The second (hub) or transfer point below the N. Temple viaduct really will hurt the potential of Central Station.
If a traveler is headed from SL INT to Ogden and have to stop at the hub, they may be inclined to check out the bustling neighborhood around the hub while they are there and catch FR in an hour or so, but transferring at the N. Temple transfer station will create no pedestrian activity.
I am sorry Zionide and others that have homes or property in the 600 W neighborhood but for the long range future of the city, the 600 W option new viaduct or not is the best option. imho
Speaking of City Council, when are they having the vote on the route? |
Couldn't the airport line start at the hub and use the exsisting Trax rails up until the Gateway, then continue up 4th West to North Temple? You wouldn't run into grade problems (as was discussed), it would make 4th West a mini rail corridor and a lot more attractive by extending rails all the way to North Temple, and it would still be able to cross the viaduct alright. Sound good?
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Originally Posted by TANGELD_SLC
The funny thing about pork is, everybody hates it until they are getting some of it themselves 
I still don't know how much longer we can spend so recklessly. I think that infrastructure science, education and construction is where the money ought to be going, not to corrupt bankers who got too greedy and want someone else to save them from themselves. |
You just said the you thought infrastructure and construction is a good investment. That's what this stimulus bill is - investment in construction and infrastructure (in this particular case, but the stimulus bill also includes funding for science, education, green technologies, rebuilding the electric grid, etc). 99.5% of it isn't pork. It's amazing how much pork was kept out of the bill. The money you speak of that went to the banks was actually passed by *gasp* former president Bush.
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