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The city expects to have more detailed images before a City Council discussion on May 25. cerned about the cost of the trench option, though she had concerns about the elevated and at grade alternatives. In Mountain View, the Rail Authority reports a cost of $155 million for at-grade tracks, $344 million for an aerial viaduct, $615 million for an open trench and $1.4 billion for a covered trench. The elevated platform option downtown is “overwhelming� as Bryant put it, because it has to be wide enough for Caltrain platforms on each side of the four tracks. In the Rengstorff Avenue options, Crisanto Drive along Rengstorff Park is closed off in the at-grade alternative. Existing businesses and homes remain in the three designs for Rengstorff Avenue, including Mi Pueblo Market. The city expects to have more detailed images before a City Council discussion of the images on May 25. Additional drawings will eventually include some street level views, Fuller said. V
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depressed to run under ground level “at-grade� tracks. “The images reinforce to me what a major effect such a solution would have on our downtown,� said Mayor Ronit Bryant. The biggest consequence for downtown may be in the at grade option where portions of Castro Street are depressed all the way from Villa Street to Central Avenue That would alter how people use the historic 100 block of Castro Street, and would require an elevated pedestrian crossing mid-block. But that option has the advantage of an elevated crossing over Central Expressway, though others could as well, Fuller said. Another consequence for downtown is that the city’s 1888 train depot replica at the corner of Castro Street and Evelyn Avenue has to be moved away from the tracks in the at-grade option, Fuller said. Council member Margaret Abe-Koga said she was con-
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