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Originally Posted by ByeByeBaby
Only building one tunnel but running both lines in it creates the same interlining congestion problems we have now, just underground. So that's not a solution.
Pretty sure building two tunnels would be greater expense than building one. Almost double (actually, quite possibly more). Given the ridership patterns in Calgary and the future transit plans, there are few transfers in the downtown relative to ridership. I expect it would be both cheaper and more popular to hire people to stand around with garbage bags full of ten dollar bills, handing them to people making the LRT-LRT transfer as an apology.
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True. Most metros don't interline. Big transfer stations, sure, but the level of overlap of 7th Ave definitely not as common. Spliting them up would be the best way to do it, and coordinate to have entry points of key stations as close as possible to 7th ave stations (or at least as practical as possible so transfers can figure it out). Plenty of metros all over the place operate like that just fine, the LRT can too.
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