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Originally Posted by electricron
and along the Drag that means either taking UT property or on the opposite side of the street, displacing the stores that make the Drag so popular.
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The Drag is a special case(I think it may even be narrower than 80 feet?), but that should be already being dealt with by the Guadalupe corridor plan (reminder, everyone vote for the mobility bond!).
It's basically an invariant, whether for rail or buses.
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Originally Posted by electricron
Another point I missed in the link within the link, is how they came up with the projected costs? There was no discussion at all over costs to do anything; costs of rail, costs of vehicles, cost of catenary, cost of signaling, cost of labor, cost of materials, cost of design, cost of getting permits, etc.
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Where's the storage and maintenence yard? How big is it, where are those acres of land along that five miles?
What vehicles are they using, and do they have to be bidirectional to turn around at Crestview? At republic square?
What's the profile throughout the corridor, how much eminent domain is necessary?
They finally answered how many stations (apparently 10) which is more than half of the 2014 plan. How big are they and how much eminent domain is necessary there?
How big is the engineering contingency buffer (I think the 2014 plan was 30%)?
What year is the claimed cost, and what is it inflation-adjusted to YoE?
What's the plan for the existing bus service in that corridor?
What are the annual operating expenses? Who's paying that, and from what source?
What the the plans for expansion, both north and south? How do you cross the freight rail at Crestview? How do you cross the river?
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Originally Posted by electricron
it's like the proposers of the bond program took a stab in the dark and hoped $500 million was enough! Would they give the money back to the taxpayers if that was too much? What would they do if it wasn't enough?
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I think they're actually claiming $400 M.