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ION Phase 2 - Cambridge's Light Rail Transit
(05-07-2017, 11:34 AM)kps Wrote:
(05-07-2017, 09:42 AM)Smore Wrote: There are many reasons Phase 1 stopped at Fairway, but one of them is that south of that, construction would require elevated track due to water bodies, rail crossings and topography and thus would be more expensive and invasive...

And so back to Eagle St, what's the plan for the three rail crossings there (other than awarding one irony point for the tightest one having originally been built as a streetcar line)?

The one near Industrial will be bypassed by following it around the curve (which saves also crossing it on Hespeler Road).

The one near Concession should be a straightforward grade separation - I'm imagining a cutting for the rails, so they pass under Concession, Eagle and Witmer (or Witmer gets rerouted).

The one by the river is of course the trickiest and most important. I'm imagining elevated heavy rail (because there's no way to dig that close to the river) but it could go a number of ways.
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RE: ION Phase 2 - Cambridge's Light Rail Transit - by KevinL - 05-07-2017, 11:40 AM

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