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Originally Posted by bilbao58
It is said that the water table is too high for a subway. I would assume keeping it not filled with water during and after one of Houston's downpours (what my mom referred to as "toad stranglers") would cost too much as well.
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I've heard that before too, but we've had large areas of underground development all over the core of the city for decades from downtown to the med center to the Galleria, plus the subway at IAH airport. I-10 is completely submerged from 610 to downtown, 59 is submerged from Shepherd to Montrose, and they're also talking about submerging 59 from the Montrose area all the way past the Minute Maid Park area.
Every time there's a major flood, our freeways and streets also flood. Maybe I'm missing something, but I just don't get the deterrence with regard to building that kind of subway network. If it's truly not feasible, elevate the trains...although that would likely bring imminent domain into the equation and could still disrupt street/pedestrian traffic along skinny corridors like Westheimer inside the loop.