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Originally Posted by rocketphish
 The problem with all of the above examples is that they take the bridge out of service as a rail bridge. |
How is that the problem with those examples? At least with the most famous NY and Paris examples, the bridges had been removed from service long before they were transformed... So really they just made something out of nothing. Not unlike the POW...
And yeah, it would make a great link for QC-OTT transit, that's probably the best use for it but how long will that take?? The cost isn't that crazy. 40-60M$ is peanuts for such a long river bridge connection, considering the amount spent on tunneling through downtown for phase 1.
So yeah, I suppose it's one or the other and weighing the opportunity cost to etiher... Unfortunate. But it would be worth expanding on the bridge to make it both a transit and ped/cycle connection ideally. Like the Alexandria bridge in the 50s, without the car lane
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