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Orange County Moving Toward Elevated Train

Posted by: Christian Madera
Thanks to: Christian Peralta
18 January 2001 - 1:00pm

The county's transportation authority is closer to choosing a route, but residents are not so sure about the project.

"It could be the region's best-kept secret: Transportation officials might build a 30-mile light-rail line through the heart of Orange County. In many places it would rise 40 feet above the street on concrete columns, casting shadows on sun-splashed streetscapes, bringing a new source of noise to neighborhoods - and moving tens of thousands of commuters. Costing up to $2.3 billion, CenterLine would be the largest public-works project in county history -- aside from the proposed El Toro airport."

Full Story: A distant rumble
Source: Orange County Register, January 18, 2001
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