Urban parks

[danbrotherston]

I’m not sure of the official status now, but for a long time the Spur Line Trail was officially closed during train movement hours. Completely nonsensical, given the proliferation of sidewalks immediately next to 70km/h motor vehicle traffic all over the city.

Definitely absurd given the spur line trains move at like 10km/h.

That being said, it's also remarkable how incapable we are at building even low impedance separations between things. Like, everything must either be unseparated or a 12 foot tall chain link or concrete fence with 10 feet on either side.

The Netherlands is absolutely chock full of small fences and 4 foot tall hedges. Yeah, hedges need maintenance, but a similar rail line (as in a spur line carrying low frequency freight at 30-40 km/h), has a 3 foot tall fence beside it the whole way, as a result there's zero interaction between the path and railway...and there's far less right of way than the spur line.