That's just plain silly. The WAG was about widening the downtown tunnel. US-26 is a perfectly good road, and I see no reason to believe that there's anything magical about the particular straight strip of real estate that it's on, as compared to the equivalent strip of real estate on either side of it that would render it impossible to widen the road.
Well, I hope so. But the tracks are right up next to the road ROW, so all widening will have to be done on the other side. In some places there are houses, according to the sat pictures on Terraserver.
I'm not saying that US-26 is the only road that needs widening, I'm saying that it's the only road that competes with the light rail. Your argument therefore applies to the light rail just as well.
Perhaps, but I was comparing it to the rail tunnel through the West Hills, which was a hell of a lot more expensive. I'm not saying that light rail never makes sense anywhere.
Walk. Put up with the drizzle. Get an umbrella. This exchange is typical of neo-Luddism. Might as well say get a horse. I prefer living in the 21st century, not the 19th.
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Ciao, Paul D. DeRocco
