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Post transit projects from your city that would be infinitely more useful if they made one small change.
Hard Mode: Can't be more expensive
Dante Must Die Mode: Needs to serve all the current areas served by the project
Here's my submission for hard mode.
If they did the route in the pic, Mondawmin Station would still serve the mall, but also serve the local community college, a university, and several big high schools (which is a big deal since in Baltimore most students take public transit to school) and even serving a new neighborhood. Not to mention Baltimore's biggest bus hub is also on top of the current station, so by moving it to the new station every part of the city would have access to all of that through buses.
The Monroe Ave station would serve pretty much everyone from the old Mondawmin and Penn-North stations walksheds, with the vast majority of people being the same distance if not closer when you include the Eutaw St station which also provides access to Reservoir Hill and Bolton Hill, two very dense upscale neighborhoods.
The only downsides to this are that Upton is no longer served (which is about as dense as the new areas served) and that you'd have to build an extra station if you wanted a connection to MARC (commuter train to DC), but that's pretty much irrelevant because while the Upton station is right where the MARC tunnel is, there's no MARC station there, and they finally stopped proposals for building one because the tunnel needs to be replaced and the new tunnel isn't going to be anywhere near there.
It'd even be cheaper most likely too because it's the same distance and same number of stations but instead of using tunnel-boring you could just use cut and cover since the entire route is either in a pre-existing ROW or under a very wide street.
Meant to bump the last thread but it looks like I didn't make it in time so I'm just re-posting it.
Hard Mode: Can't be more expensive
Dante Must Die Mode: Needs to serve all the current areas served by the project
Here's my submission for hard mode.
If they did the route in the pic, Mondawmin Station would still serve the mall, but also serve the local community college, a university, and several big high schools (which is a big deal since in Baltimore most students take public transit to school) and even serving a new neighborhood. Not to mention Baltimore's biggest bus hub is also on top of the current station, so by moving it to the new station every part of the city would have access to all of that through buses.
The Monroe Ave station would serve pretty much everyone from the old Mondawmin and Penn-North stations walksheds, with the vast majority of people being the same distance if not closer when you include the Eutaw St station which also provides access to Reservoir Hill and Bolton Hill, two very dense upscale neighborhoods.
The only downsides to this are that Upton is no longer served (which is about as dense as the new areas served) and that you'd have to build an extra station if you wanted a connection to MARC (commuter train to DC), but that's pretty much irrelevant because while the Upton station is right where the MARC tunnel is, there's no MARC station there, and they finally stopped proposals for building one because the tunnel needs to be replaced and the new tunnel isn't going to be anywhere near there.
It'd even be cheaper most likely too because it's the same distance and same number of stations but instead of using tunnel-boring you could just use cut and cover since the entire route is either in a pre-existing ROW or under a very wide street.
Meant to bump the last thread but it looks like I didn't make it in time so I'm just re-posting it.