11-01-2017, 06:07 AM
(10-31-2017, 10:26 PM)Pheidippides Wrote: Wait. So the 20+ buses per hour of the 10, 12, 18, 110, and Ion bus are going be on the north side of the Ion tracks and have to cross over to get in/out when the Ion crossing arms will be down 15 times an hour? I assume there will be additional crossing arms at that GRT driveway next to the west end of the Ion platform?
Are there crossing arms at the west end of the Ion platforms between the platforms and Wilson now? I don't recall seeing them in recent photos. If not, I guess they will install crossing arms there after GrandLinq finishes the system rather than as a change order?
This is much different from the original layout:
Crossing arms aren't required there because the speed of the LRVs crossing there is significantly slower than at Wilson. It almost looks like they'll be expected to turn left into that platform area which means they would already have stopped for the turn the signals are quite visible from that angle if I remember correctly. At any rate having the entrance to platform 3 be immediately to the west of the station platforms is much much safer than having a right turn entrance immediately after the Wilson grade crossing.