Quote Originally Posted by RYANGUARD View Post
With LBP fighting these types of things,don't be surprised if this goes nowhere.The bottom line is cost and how is it going to be paid for.It would be wonderfull to have light rail coming across 8 mile but with the economy the way it is,this probably wont go past the "feasibility study."By the way,how much is this feasibility study costing?They aren't doing it out of the kindness of their hearts,as much as everyone would like to think!It would have been great to have the triple decker overpass removed at 8 mile so that light rail wouldn't have this obstacle but the powers that be decided it needed to be re-built.Great minds at work......
I don't think that the overpass is a detriment to light rail... there's creative ways to work around it. Even the I-696 Woodward interchange won't be a problem. When MDOT built that interchange, they added a right of way for mass transit.