05-05-2021, 07:34 AM
(05-05-2021, 07:13 AM)danbrotherston Wrote:(05-05-2021, 01:15 AM)nms Wrote: I was assuming that the engineering preference would be for the rails to be straight at the platform since I'm not sure what kind of S-curves might be required to deviate around a wider platform before returning to a straight path. That being said, I guess they could have used the full grass median and left long two wedges at either end of the platform to return to the regular alignment.
Or just move the track over for the entire block.
Yes, in our system the tracks are deliberately kept straight for the entire length of the platform; and most new systems are designed under this constraint, to maintain small platform edge gaps. For this reason there will most likely never again be built anything like New York’s old City Hall station. But that being said there is plenty of space to ease the tracks over before and after the station or to slightly redesign the entire block as Dan suggests.