08-26-2020, 01:07 PM
(08-26-2020, 12:56 PM)Bytor Wrote:(08-26-2020, 12:53 PM)danbrotherston Wrote: This is what they said, but during the last winter, they were running snow removal equipment along the embedded tracks. I'm not sure why they now feel this is necessary, but that is nonetheless what they are doing.
I would guess that a maintenance person using equipment on the tracks is much cheaper in terms of labour costs than an LRV driver.
I don't think it is that, the snow removal was ongoing during the daytime when LRVs were running. I suspect that Grandlinq feels that snow removal is necessary even when LRVs are running, I am not certain why they change their opinion.
That being said, I must agree, it seems like much of the embedded track does not need to be embedded....we even have weird scenarios like on Hayward where the track switches between ballasted to embedded and back twice in a few hundred meter span.
I'm not a railway engineer, but I am guessing much of this has to do with blindly applying standards and processes without thinking or contextualizing. It's the same way we got a King/Moore intersection seemingly designed to kill cyclists.