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Originally Posted by craner
I really hope this is true.
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Well it isn't as though a Centre Street subway appears more attainable today than it did a decade ago.
It is just incredibly puzzling to me, the city appears to be prepared to build a Centre Street that will be a poor transit corridor, a horrendous road for other vehicles, incredibly hostile to pedestrians and where there will simply be no place for cyclists. Basically every shortcoming ever raised about a Centre Street alignment was just shrugged off with a meh.
Building this alignment entirely at grade on Centre Street wouldn't be a mega-project and the city has long insisted that the need to grow capacity is already a near emergency, yet even after making innumerable sacrifices they can't seem to make the one that could bring a street car to Centre Street fairly rapidly.
The only conclusion that makes sense to me is that they don't want to build at grade on Centre Street in the first place but they also don't want to over-promise again.