You may be giving the city too much credit to have the forethought of where each column of the guideway would go. After seeing all of the mess and poor planning, I assumed that a few in the city just took a Sharpie and drew a line to what they thought looked good from 80,000ft high. Things like water line placement, sewer lines, electrical conflicts, and so many other things the city oversees would have been obvious had someone actually planned ahead. The problem isn't with lawsuits that delayed the project, it has always been with the poor planning and the insanity of our government.