There can be justification for short tunnels (virtually underpasses) on
tram systems in order to bypass intersections or deal with terrain, but if
you're going to build long tunnels then, to justify the cost, you'd want
the mode that can move most people - trains - running through them.

Tony P

On Friday, 5 August 2022 at 14:29:36 UTC+10brent....@... wrote:

> Quite right – the Auckland tunneled 'light rail' will almost certainly

> never be built anyway – unaffordable, certain to suffer Sydney Metro-level

> cost blowouts and certain to be cancelled if there is a change of

> Government to the conservative National Party.

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> Brent Efford

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