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Originally Posted by hereinaustin
At the very least, some of these corridors may encourage dense development and make future rail service (and the room for it) practical. Baby steps, I guess.
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The most important corridor in this proposition was the smallest, Guadalupe.
If/when there's ever rail service on Guadalupe/Lamar, this section was going to be the chokepoint, and potentially a rallying cry for opposition.
Now, assuming they can get bus lanes on it (not counting chickens, as constructing those may still get pushback, even now that they have the money) that becomes easier. It should be a simpler to change a bus-only lane to a bus/rail shared lane.
I would think it would also (slightly) lower the final bill of such a system. You'd still need to put catenary in. But assuming the bus lanes are actually heavy duty poured concrete, and not just painting the existing asphalt (the cost estimate seems like that would be the case) utility relocation (probably?) will already be done.