09-04-2018, 07:22 AM
(This post was last modified: 09-04-2018, 07:34 AM by danbrotherston.)
(09-04-2018, 06:23 AM)Canard Wrote: Queen: Do you know for a fact that a snowplough could fit through a narrower lane with curbs on both sides?
Weber: Please draw a diagram explaining how you think it could have been made wider without moving the outside lanes, encroaching nearby properties.
I am out of town right now so I can't exactly give you on the ground pictures.
Queen I am just looking at the satellite pictures. The edge line should be painted 3.35 - 3.65 m from the median. Snow plows are just trucks that are less than 3 meters wide, so they would definitely fit.
Now neither I nor the region actually knows what the effect of narrowing the lane to just 3.65 curb to curb distance would be on operations, perhaps they could test it, say using temporary materials or something but in my experience the engineers have absolutely no interest or incentive to testing out something which isn't written in their design books.
As for Weber there are no images on maps yet but I looked carefully when I was there because I was astonished how narrow it was. There are boulevards on both sides with a possibility of needing to move a hydro pole. But even without moving the pole the road actually narrows after the culvert to where the island is.
Edit: I realize I already have a picture of the boulevard from during construction:
There is space to widen without moving poles on one side.