11-12-2015, 12:40 PM
(11-12-2015, 07:33 AM)Canard Wrote: .....which now has me really wondering something. I had always assumed here that the track would "dip" or the road surface would come up to meet it... So that vehicles wound be still alowed to move straight through on either Charles or Benton. But looking at the curb that was poured around be OCS pole foundation, the top of that curb is flush with the top of the track, which suggests that the road will be the height of the curb below that - in other words, that vehicles will not be driving on top of the embedded track.
Does anyone know if that's the case? Does that mean that Charles South is through, Benton West is through, but Charles North is forced onto Benton/Frederick East and Benton North has to turn West onto Charles?
The curb they've poured is part of the intersection a little to the north (King St side) of the intersection. You can see that there are two levels: The left part of the curb is raised, the right part of the curb is lowered, allowing for the pedestrian crosswalk. The LRT track is roughly level with the right side, where the curb cut is. The left side is indeed a raised curb, as you can see the concrete of the track base dissappear behind it. No cars would need to cross at this point, because this is not yet in the intersection.