by nessman
erie2521 wrote:One of the problems with resurrecting the 1972 plan is that a good piece of the trackage that existed then is gone now, in particular, the subway and the Lehigh/Erie out to Jefferson Rd.Well, not to further the pipe dream of light rail in Rochester, but much of the infrastructure along the way is still intact - the subway tunnel, the trestles over the Genesee River, Canal and I-390... much of the ROW is still usable (some of which would involve street running through the UofR campus).
But the sticker price is still high in this day and age of the ADA and the years of red-tape and delays that will slow down progress as every government agency gets involved and every NIMBY group throws up roadblocks.