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[quote user="AntonioFP45"] Sa Good potential.  I don't have all of the info in front of me, but to relieve the current congestion would it not be much faster and more cost effective to simply add another track to the current UP line instead of building a bypass line?  Is it currently single or double track? [/quote]Expanding the current line, especially through Austin, would be very expensive.  The line threads the MoPac (Route 1) north of downtown Austin, snakes through town, and crosses the Colorado River on a fairly long single track bridge.  The line runs in a median between the south bound and north bound lanes of the MoPac as per above.  The median does not appear wide enough to accommodate another track.  To double track the line would require not only a rebuild of the railroad but the parallel lanes of highway.  It would require the rebuild of numerous highway bridges.  I don't have the numbers, but my guess is that doubling tracking the existing line would be more costly than to build the bypass.  In fact, I have never seen or heard a serious discussion to double track the current route.
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