Crossing the Lines: Cost-Shifting on the Boulevard
Crossing the Lines: Cost-Shifting on the Boulevard
In the act of depressing the Boulevard’s express lanes, you’ll also create a rather large, rather wide median. (About 40 feet.) A rather lard, rather wide, rather transit-ready median. In doing so, we export the costs of prepping the land (i.e. the median) to the highway department.
And this, in turn, sinks–by quite a lot–the necessary cost of developing a Boulevard subway.