The only question is whether it'll be at-grade or if Bellevue and ST can find a way to fund a tunnel. blog comments powered by Disqus publicola nerds ❋ Unknown (2010)
The Virginia Department of Transportation is building a four-lane bridge on Route 28 over Wellington Road and the Norfolk Southern Railroad tracks in Manassas to eliminate the at-grade crossing. ❋ Post (2011)
If the line is built through downtown Bellevue (either at-grade or as a tunnel) and the region ends up wishing we had built the Vision Line instead? ❋ Unknown (2010)
Adding turnstyles to the at-grade, median stops along MLK would be harder, since its the entrance to the station is not physically defined by a stairway, or escalator. ❋ Unknown (2010)
The 1994 Swift Rail Development Act created a mandate to support the existing practice of an operator sounding a locomotive's horn, as a warning to traffic, a half-mile before the train reaches at-grade crossings, on which vehicles cross the train tracks at the same level as the locomotive. ❋ Alex Ruoff (2010)
Maybe focus on the tunnel stops for turnstyles, and have other enforcement means on the at-grade stations? zefwagner ❋ Unknown (2010)
Also, do not forget that the capacity of an at-grade/on-street LRT line is 20,000+, much more capacity than will ever be needed on Broadway. ❋ Unknown (2010)
We would atart off by building a basic at-grade 6 lane highway … no frills, no landscaping … and then enclosing it in a concrete sttructure, and burying it until the top of the buried highway, then a tunnel, is above the existing levee. ❋ Unknown (2007)
It was finally razed in the 1980s, replaced by what is now called the Joe Di Maggio Parkway, a busy at-grade roadway (The massive, ambitious Westway project, proposed in the 1970s, would have placed the roadway underground and surfaced it with a park; it too fell victim to community opposition). ❋ Unknown (2009)
The critics said that rail transit will dramatically slow traffic, creating \ "snarls\" at at-grade crossings. ❋ Unknown (2009)
The critics said that rail transit will dramatically slow traffic, creating "snarls" at at-grade crossings. ❋ Unknown (2009)
In the real world, on-street/at-grade light rail tends to attract more new custom that metro because it is more convenient. ❋ Unknown (2009)
The elevated and at-grade stations have 40-metre platforms and those could be extended to 50 metres. ❋ Unknown (2009)
THAT the foregoing motion be amended by striking out the words following “continuing” in the last paragraph and replacing them with the words “to at least 25th Avenue and Cambie for a partially grade-separated system, and that the remainder of the line be at-grade on the rest of Cambie and further that there be no elevated portions on the Cambie Boulevard.” ❋ Unknown (2008)
The Proposal incorporates an at-grade, manually operated streetcar system that connects to the automated system at Bridgeport Station. ❋ Unknown (2008)
I can see the Arbutus Line eventually being built as full at-grade LRT once the Canada Line reaches capacity. ❋ Unknown (2008)
Millennium Line Phase 2 – the segment through Port Moody was planned to be at-grade along the CP right-of-way. ❋ Unknown (2008)
