11-19-2017, 07:33 PM
(11-19-2017, 06:09 PM)Canard Wrote: All I’m saying is you’re making a lot of assumptions that you don’t actually know the answer to, and as a result, blaming the project team, and it’s not fair. Your comparisons about sidewalks and roads are not valid because we’re talking about two different governing bodies with totally different rulesets.
Actually I’m blaming our planners, not the LRT project team itself.
I’m well aware that there is a double standard where anything involving roads is allowed to be wildly unsafe.
But I’m confused why you don’t think my closer comparison between the hypothetical path beside the tracks through the tunnel and the actual path beside the tracks along Hayward and Courtland is valid. It’s the same LRT line running in the same part of town and with the same separate-from-the-road style of design. I’m not even comparing to the on-street embedded segments of LRT.
I believe that prudent planning would have dictated building the LRT tunnel enough wider to allow a MUT to be run through it next to the tracks, and based on comparisons with nearly sections of the LRT I believe that “enough wider” is not an enormous amount of additional width.