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Make no small plans, for they have no magic to stir men’s blood...

I think a subway is a blunt way to solve the biggest problem with Austin transit, the reality that roads will have to be reconfigured to enable buses or LRV’s to not be stuck in traffic. To be honest I think Austin needs only one subway line under only a part of downtown no more than 2 or 3 miles long. The rest of the line would surely be at grade, and then any other corridors would be BRT instead of rail. But I think the city needs this rail spine, because otherwise any cheaper BRT line would take like 45 minutes just to go from UT to the river during the peak times that transit is in demand.