Sorry. I should have been more clear. I think the new route is probably fine (it's quite similar to the tunnel route after all). My concern is that the costing seems like it's not much better than napkin math, and the proposal from what I've seen doesn't address questions like "how should the...

Some poorly-organized thoughts from a long-time lurker who lives and works in a different quadrant of the city -- From an end-product perspective, a tunneled system downtown would probably be best in no small part because waiting for infrequent trains indoors will be a lot more pleasant than...