Too much emphasis is placed on coming together at the ITC...... I would develop two additional transit terminals for downtown; one being at the former M&O tunnel for the North and West Lines; and the second being at the junction of Lancaster Avenue and Jennings Street for the South and East Lines.....The two new terminals offer this one important advantage: a preexisting unobstructed route into downtown that avoids any enormous disruption to present day or post development traffic flow within the CBD.....Reopen the M&O tunnel for streetcars traveling (North) and (West) with a transfer connection point at Panther Island via the FWRR corridor to the Stockyards or to CD/WR area. Develop a surface/underground terminal using the Jennings Street underpass for streetcars traveling (South) to the City Maintenance facility at Felix via the Hemphill Street corridor......
What this photo so aptly illustrates is that there is an existing conduit into and out of the CBD via Jennings Street that eliminates the need to construct an expensive bridge or tunnel to cross the I-30/RR barrier. Add this to the existing M&O Tunnel; and you would have three of the four accesses into and out of the CBD (southern, northern and western). If Fort Worth is to have rapid street car transit and the powers to be insist that cost is the utmose issue, then transit proponent city will want to demonstrate some cost cutting ideas such as the Jennings Street and M&O Tunnel Options.
However, just looking at what Austin, TX is doing, it is still beyond me why Fort Worth took the stand that it did when it rejected the money for a street car. Oh yeah, we have to have a commuter rail for suburbia and to get to an airport that is becoming increasingly marginal for domestic traveling.