11-19-2017, 01:09 PM
(11-18-2017, 11:34 PM)Canard Wrote:(11-18-2017, 10:53 PM)KevinL Wrote: Crosstown will certainly have completed whatever expropriations were necessary.
I realize that, but I guess what I'm asking is, what was the quantity or severity of said expropriations? How bad were they and how do they compare to Cambridge?
I don’t know all the details, but I know they had to expropriate a number of complete buildings in order to build stations, emergency exit structures, ventilation locations, and traction power substations. I think that besides these individual locations there were probably not many expropriations. In the part of the line where it will be on the surface I understand the road is already very wide so my guess is there was little expropriation there also. So overall I believe there were quite a number of full property takings and hardly any narrow slivers.
Of course we’re not considering underground here so the most a station would need would be a little bit more width to fit the platforms in along with transit and vehicular lanes. As a result we tend to have mostly slivers with very few full property takings.