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Originally Posted by Busy Bee
Yes I'm painfully aware that grade seperations along the FEC are virtually impossible. You can't dig down because of the water table and limited access style overpasses over the tracks at every perpendicular artery would essentially create a berm wall along the entire coast. Not to mention the billions such an undertaking woukd cost. It was more of a rhetorical comment.
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You can dig down, however, it's super expensive. The City of Fort Lauderdale is proposing a tunnel as we speak for the FEC tracks through downtown Fort Lauderdale in order to add commuter rail trains to the tracks that the Brightline runs on to replace this bridge (
https://goo.gl/maps/hReGEswMNuMqDHFS7 ) . There is also an existing tunnel for US-1 that goes under the New River (
https://goo.gl/maps/Rwe8ehYuaVX3jjz19 ) and a tunnel under Biscayne Bay in Miami (
https://goo.gl/maps/VoYPdDqoXQZWFGvP9 ).