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Old Posted Mar 21, 2016, 5:27 PM
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It will never get 'built'; we'd have to come up with multiple billionS of dollars to get UP to move most (not all, just most) of their freight traffic, just to be able to run trains reasonably often on the existing track - the existing track that doesn't penetrate downtown Austin and has even less opportunities for TOD than does the awful Red Line.

Complete waste of time and money. Even one dollar spent on this thing is one dollar that could be more productively spent on urban rail.
Hey, guys, I'm wondering how this all turned out. Surely by now trains are running and nothing's standing in the way of this super-cool project!
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