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Originally Posted by drummer
but over (i.e., elevated rail) is *relatively* cheap to construct.
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Purely financially, perhaps (again, relatively).
But there's an additional political cost of anything elevated (even highways, some of the pushback on mopac south is on the elevated portion).
People don't like to look at it. They don't like to think someone is staring into their backyards (which, since all of Austin's corridors are like one parcel deep and immediately abut single family zoning, would be possible). They don't like to hear it.
That doesn't mean I wouldn't support it in a heartbeat, but there would be pushback.