Matt777 wrote:Do you know what the plans are for the people mover shown running under the HSR tracks at Union Station, shown on page 25 of the powerpoint presentation you linked? Would that be a people mover from Union Station to the Convention Center to the HSR station? That would be an amazingly connective link, creating so much synergy.
This is all purely conceptual, but yeah having a peoplemover tucked in underneath the track would be the simplest most practical route for such a connection between Cedars and EBJ Union.
Tivo_Kenevil wrote:Hunt stands to gain nothing from HSR. Know this, he already has access to Rail Access to Ft. Worth. Their site is next to Union Station...the TRE. Furthermore, the actual HSR station would be further south in the cedars.
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Let's say this 2B alignment towards fort worth gets built with the theoretical attached people-mover connecting union station; Hunt would essentially be getting a free people-mover through his fancy new neighborhood with its own stop.
Since the view of downtown on the people-mover would be blocked by the convention center, Hunt would also be getting the undivided attention of any visitor riding it from the Cedars to downtown. They get a front row seat of literally whatever Hunt wants to put there. It's like having the captured attention of people on the Disneyworld monorail as it circles around epcot before dropping you off.
This also guarantees that the Reunion Tower observation deck is every visitor's first stop by making it the first sign they see as they get off at the Union station stop. "Oh let's go up the big ball first then we'll explore downtown, it's just to the left here."
Additionally, it makes the Hyatt Regency and whatever additional hotel Hunt wants to build here into the default options for convention attendees and HSR travelers. They become the "airport terminal hotels" with seamless access to both the convention center and cedars station, making them far more competitive with the omni than they otherwise would be.
Which sure, the big caveat is that such an elevated walkway/people-mover could be constructed here
regardless of the existence of a FW-DAL high speed rail leg, but at that point just building the people mover would create the same problems that Hunt is complaining about already so you might as well toss the hsr track on top of it anyways. Nor is such a people-mover guaranteed, but the city has expressed desire to connect Union with the cedars station and I think the connection is far more likely to actually materialize if it's built in conjunction with a fort worth hsr leg rather than isolated on its own; probably much easier access to federal funding in that scenario. All of this will depend on the details like you say.
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