08-18-2020, 01:16 PM
(08-18-2020, 09:26 AM)ac3r Wrote: I read a post on Reddit where someone suggested a better idea than an island would be a tunnel under the road. It would be safer and keep the flow of foot/bike traffic on the trail moving at a constant pace. They're pretty common in Europe, so I don't see why we couldn't build the same here, except for the fact the city would likely say it costs too much money.
A tunnel isn't really an option there. You could do it coming down to Victoria, but the bit between Victoria St. and West Ave. behind the café and dim sum restaurant doesn't really allow it. You have to drop the tunnel done far enough to so that the ceiling is underneath and water and other infrastructure underneath the road, and then the floor another 3m under that, so say 6-7m. Since AODA requires a slope no steeper than 1:10 that means the trench and ramp needs to be 60-70m long. The sidewalk-to-sidewalk distance through there is barely 60m. It might not be long enough to make a ramp and trench.
And if you can't make the ramp trench curve like the current asphalt MUT does because it would be too close to the building, then you lose the West Ave. entrance to that parking lot. Either way those parking spots at the back side of the dim sum restaurant are gone because cars can't drive over the trench.
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