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Not in my backyard! | Downtown disruption, 1971 | Vibration mitigation, 1971 | Environmental impact study, 1975 | Firehouse facade, 1994 | |||||||||||||||||
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For Metro's builders,
the human environment was as great a challenge as any natural obstacles.
Many residential neighborhoods favored the transit system, just as long
as some other neighborhood got the stations and their parking lots. Downtown
merchants complained that construction scared away customers. To address
some of these concerns, engineers worked to dampen noise, assess environmental
impacts, and preserve historic structures along the routes.
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