I'm very surprised they're seriously considering a tunnel through Bellevue. It looks to me like there is already a terriffic off-street right od way available, and there does not seem to be the density there to support the cost of a tunnel.
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Tuesday, April 27, 2010
What Los Angeles Metro could look like in 10 years if May Villaraigosa's 30/10 Plan Moves Foreward.
Funding is already in-place for all of these projects, but the money flows-in from Measure R funds over the next 30 years. The Mayor's idea is to ask Washington to fund a loan against the future Measure R income, to allow all of this work to be completed within 10 years.
It's a brilliant idea. The LA Metro region certainly needs this much relief from traffic congestion as soon as possible. With all this in-place LA could quickly become almost as non car-dependent as New York. There would be a major rail or BRT stop within a 1 mile walk of a huge percentage of the region's population.
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