Tooluther on skyscrapterpage.com 11-29-08

Ok, for the last time:
1. The North Shore connector's alignment is the easiest way to the
Airport from Downtown.
2. The only other way to the North Shore from Downtown is the
Ft. Wayne bridge. If they used the alignment it would ha6. The north
shore connector helps solidify the "expanded" downtown in the same way
as the original LRT project made Station Square more a part of
downtown than the South Side.
7. Yes, the North Shore connector will also allow one seat rides from
the South Hills to the stadiums, continentalve been as
expensive (the lower deck of the bridge i4. North Hills busses will
short turn at the new intermodal Station. That way you won't have
empty "T's" running back into town from the North Shore and you remove
some bus traffic from crowded downtown streets (there by improving
productivity of the bus system).
5. The receiving pit on the North Shore was built twice as big as
needed. In this pit is where the current alignment turns west towards
the intermodal center. The extra space will allow an additional cut
and cover tunnel to follow Mazoroski way up to the north side and/or a
HOV alignments barely there) and wouldI know because I
have required switchbacks to get up to that elevation...making
expansion east from that spur (strip district or busway)
impossible. PLUS the current Gateway Center and Woods Street Stations
would have been a spur rather than the main line.
3. A spine line to Oakland would cost Billions and Billions of
dollars. It wasn't an either/or decision. The spine line was killed in
the early 90