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That CACDC "plan" would cost ~2 Billion. At least. It's longer than the 2014 plan (which adds costs) and would be built later.

Even if the full length of their idea for Phase 1 it would not cost more than 3 times the 2014 plan as you suggest. I personally think Phase 1 should be shorter.
[QUOTE But if you want to link employment with residential, running up Guadalupe isn't any better (and in some ways is worse) than than the 2014 plan. ][/QUOTE]
Please, please, please show me the employment numbers that reflect that, even with full buildout of the med school.
Unfortunately I can't post the image of the image that has more than 178,000 jobs within a half mile of the stops for the northern portion of the route using 2011 census numbers. Surely you don't believe the 2014 alignment had that many, and if they did, Project Connect would have been screaming it out on those horrible commercials and flyers they made.

then the residential density of west campus is basically meaningless. It's not a density that is effectively served by a N/S rail line.

Yeah, tell that to the busiest bus routes in town, still, even after they cut service to pay for the people that ride the red line. And not just through the drag, I see almost full "BRT" buses at Kramer and Lamar at 6:45 in the morning.

Nope, it's not being presented to the city council.

Who said it was being presented????? Why do you think Adler has just recently come out speaking about rail?? This coming just a little more than a year after city officials told us that buses would be the future of the city. Both Adler and Casar are fully aware of this plan and I'm sure a few others are as well. They all will be when they get the proclamation from the UTC.

All that's happening is that the UTC recommended that the council look at some sort of transit.
Might not even be rail. Might just be more transit priority lanes (which would be a good thing.

They're not recommending that route.

None of what you said disproves what I said.