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NO THEY DIDN'T
Good god, they even explicitly said so. The only thing that went into laying out that route was connecting population density clusters. They didn't even look at employment (they computed that afterwards). Commuting data wasn't even an input to the process.
https://mobilityatx.com/reports/findings.pdf
page 27
http://communityimpact.com/2015/12/0...rail-planning/
"Civic Analytics worked with the CACDC to create a new light rail route using 2010 Census blocks. The groups plotted the densest areas and connected the dots using major arterials."
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Idk why you continue to argue after saying you would vote for a G/L alignment, you have serious insecurity issues and free time to boot. Yes, that was how they started but at least the CDC (its in the link I posted) used the Travel Demand Model Origin Destination Trips which just confirmed that by "childishly" (as you put it) connecting major density areas it also correlated to heavily used routes.
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There is no chance in heaven or in hell that brand new, 4 story VMU buildings will be torn down and "become 8-10 stories". So any existing VMU building is "baked in", it's already counting to population and employment numbers and it won't be changing.
Neither will the neighborhoods allow 10 story buildings along those corridors. They don't want anything "looming over them" or "staring into their backyards".
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The areas will be upzoned and those buildings that would have been ~4 stories will now be 7-10 stories rather than maxing out at 6 as currently is happening. They are starting 2 new ones on Lamar now, and they will CONTINUE to demo the low density rubbish that is there now to even higher than before densities with less parking.
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Why do you persist in making these claims that are completely contrary to actual facts?
In the critical 1/2 mile radius around the PV/WC intersection, over 50% of the land is the Williamson Creek Greenbelt, the Kizer Golf Course, the Onion Creek Soccer fields, or Onion Creek Park.
Most of the rest is existing single family housing. Or a church. There's almost no commercial. There's no place for any additional construction to go.
That construction you keep pointing to is 3-5 miles away.
Where are you going to put a park and ride? You can't put it in the floodplain.
http://austintexas.gov/page/floodpro
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I actually go there and I don't care if it is within the half mile or not, all those people would have access and there is plenty of room for a park and ride.
Your arguing there was more space on the 2014 route is laughable, yeah, the state is going to allow us to demo all those beautiful parking garages. So that leaves you with just 2 spots. Just admit that the best hope for quality rail is G/L.