07-08-2019, 01:43 PM
(This post was last modified: 07-08-2019, 01:43 PM by danbrotherston.)
(07-08-2019, 01:34 PM)ac3r Wrote: Tunneling here certainly could have worked. They could have used cut and cover tunneling. It would have not been a whole lot harder than what they did to install the LRT on downtown streets, you just dig down further, reinforce the walls, lay the track and fill it up again. The only thing is, there's more cost involved with cut and cover tunneling.
I can concede this just wouldn't have happened here. I nonetheless really hope to see the ION use higher speeds in the near future.
The low speeds can be overcome in most places. The tight turns will always be slow, but the slow speeds on the straight sections right now have nothing to do with the lack of tunnels and only come from the abject terror that our society seems to have about anything that isn't a car or truck traveling at any speeds above a jog.