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Old 06-29-2019, 07:38 AM
 
Location: USA
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With rising sea levels, why not build below ground/ in the water?? ...a couple examples of this include BART between SF and Oakland and LIRR between Queens and Penn Station. Build the entrance/exit platforms/stations several feet higher on land, while the rails and trains are “protected” underground.
Costs will be billions. No funding in line for the Hudson Tunnels and they choke when they try to under-estimate the ultimate cost. When the NYNJPA tunnels go, the economy will sink.
You have to have money banked away for maintenance not kicking the issue down the road which is how our bureaucracy currently operates.
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Old 07-01-2019, 01:17 PM
 
Location: Miami
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With rising sea levels, why not build below ground/ in the water?? ...a couple examples of this include BART between SF and Oakland and LIRR between Queens and Penn Station. Build the entrance/exit platforms/stations several feet higher on land, while the rails and trains are “protected” underground.
Under this proposal of the SkyRail monorail, it's said to cost around $48 million per mile to build (a fifth of the cost to build an underground subway) and can be built 75% faster than a traditional train system.
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Old 07-01-2019, 08:02 PM
 
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Under this proposal of the SkyRail monorail, it's said to cost around $48 million per mile to build (a fifth of the cost to build an underground subway) and can be built 75% faster than a traditional train system.
I would rather see the metro extended south from Kendall, it would help the most people that need it.
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Old 07-02-2019, 04:32 AM
 
Location: Florida
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Miami ! A first world city trying to improve transit with a third world Disney monorail solution!

Just Metrorail it to South beach already !

The stupid i-395 replacement already costs as much.

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Old 07-02-2019, 05:13 AM
 
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Miami ! A first world city trying to improve transit with a third world Disney monorail solution!

Just Metrorail it to South beach already !

The stupid i-395 replacement already costs as much.

Yeah, that ridiculous project is being called one of the five biggest highway construction boondoggles in the country.


Miami’s titanic I-395 reconstruction project, which includes double-decking a section of State Road 836, has been hailed as a solution that will make traffic jams disappear. But as the history of other road-fattening projects shows, it will do just the opposite, making it one of the worst “Highway Boondoggles” in the country, according to a report on wasteful spending.

The five-year, $802 million “Connecting Miami” redesign made the fifth annual list of expensive, unnecessary and ultimately counterproductive highway projects compiled by the U.S. Public Interest Research Group and Frontier Group, nonprofit, nonpartisan organizations studying public policy issues.

Read more here: https://www.miamiherald.com/news/loc...#storylink=cpy
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Old 07-03-2019, 05:57 AM
 
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Another Herald article on the proposal:

On Wednesday, July 10, the Miami-Dade County Commission is set to vote on whether to accept Genting’s “unsolicited” proposal to launch a competition for the Miami-to-Miami Beach transit route.

Read more here: https://www.miamiherald.com/news/loc...#storylink=cpy
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Old 07-03-2019, 07:39 AM
 
Location: Montreal/Miami/Toronto
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I would love for Miami to get something similar to the REM U/C right now in Montreal that connects Miami to Miami Beach. Not only is it affordable (we're getting 26 stations and 67km for $6.2B) but it's going up at a rapid pace. It's also high capacity and will promote people to take transit more. The only issue is the transit authority in Miami is pretty ****e, so there needs to be an overhaul of that plus more investment to improve efficiency in addition to a new system. But Miami will benefit having something similar to this IMO.

REM website: https://rem.info/en
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