(07-19-2022, 06:21 PM)ac3r Wrote: And sure, it would have cost an extra couple hundred millions of dollars but that efficiency would have paid for itself.
It's nothing to do with engineering, it's all about that "extra couple hundred million" . I think what you describe would be closer to $500M, but that's not really the point. As someone deeply involved with the LRT approval process, who ran an "LRT war room" tracking the stances of every member of regional council (and why), I give you my absolute guarantee that if the project had cost $100M more we'd have no LRT.
I'd love tunneling through DTK too, I think the extra few hundred million would be money well spent, but I feel the same way I do about getting to travel through space with Captain Kirk. It's simply not connected to the reality we occupy. No amount of wishing for it will change that.