11-19-2017, 05:22 PM
(11-19-2017, 05:06 PM)Canard Wrote: I wouldn’t call it a screw up. How do you know that Trasport Canada would be okay with a 1 m buffer between LRV’s rocketing along under ATC at 70-80 km/h next to your 3 m MUT?
They’re fine with a sidewalk next to a four-lane road through a bridge. 1m buffer? More like 30cm, and from traffic which is just a moment’s inattention from the driver away from driving up onto the sidewalk, and which doesn’t reliably obey the speed limit.
But even if we restrict ourselves to LRT comparisons, there are already lots of areas of the LRT where the proposed level of separation exists — try all those sidewalks with fences along Hayward and Courtland. The run through the tunnel could be exactly like those areas.
And even ignoring all that, the point is that if the tunnel had been made a little bit wider there would have been space for a MUT. I think this remains true even if we assume unreasonable (while still plausible) requirements for separation between the trail and the LRT. I don’t think they’re going to repeat the process of building a tunnel now, just for a MUT.
On a related note, the crossing of the tracks that used to exist immediately south of the expressway has been fenced off. So re-opening that would also be part of what should happen in that area, but without a proper route under the expressway the crossing isn’t really very useful.