A collection of comments made elsewhere.
First, on KUT today, you can hear yours truly with the following supporting arguments left out due to time, but brought over here from skyscraperpage :
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Travel time savings quoted are versus the local (#1), not the existing express (#101). They're still only 20%; pretty lame.
2.
The signal-holding doodad won't be much help in the most congested part of the corridor - anybody who spends any time between,...
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