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ION - Waterloo Region's Light Rail Transit
(11-02-2016, 11:49 PM)KevinL Wrote: I believe the idea for Shantz Hill was to ease the grade by partially elevating the track - possibly right across the Speed, if using that alignment. It's tricky, but not impossible.

Or by deepening the cut as it was done on Highway 6 entering Hamilton. What used to be a steep drop over <50m way back in the day became a gradual slope over ~400m in length.

I seem to remember an official bringing this up as an option if Shantz Hill was chosen. It would be expensive, that's for sure, but again not impossible.
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RE: ION - Waterloo Region's Light Rail Transit - by BuildingScout - 11-03-2016, 07:44 AM
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