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For the Willis Way platform, to make it deeper, the platform would likely have needed to be on the west side of the tracks. Would that have meant deviating the Iron Horse/Laurel Trail around the platform and using landscaping measures to ensure that cyclists wouldn't be tempted to bike through the platform? Moving the platform to the west side of the tracks would also have prevented the joint LRT and bus platform. Or, the alternative would have been deviating either Caroline St or the tracks to wrap around the wider platform.
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(05-02-2021, 04:13 PM)nms Wrote: For the Willis Way platform, to make it deeper, the platform would likely have needed to be on the west side of the tracks. Would that have meant deviating the Iron Horse/Laurel Trail around the platform and using landscaping measures to ensure that cyclists wouldn't be tempted to bike through the platform? Moving the platform to the west side of the tracks would also have prevented the joint LRT and bus platform. Or, the alternative would have been deviating either Caroline St or the tracks to wrap around the wider platform.
And why couldn't the tracks have moved west?
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(05-02-2021, 04:18 PM)danbrotherston Wrote: And why couldn't the tracks have moved west?
Indeed. The 1.2m dedicated to the grass divider between the LRT tracks and the trail could have been used to move the tracks west and have a wider platform without even making the trail move over a bit. Unless they’re worried about having a trail right next to the tracks? But that is not a coherent thing to be worrying about, given that we still have bicycle lanes that are separated from motor traffic by nothing more than a painted line. Especially since the LRVs are and must be moving slowly here at the station.
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I was assuming that the engineering preference would be for the rails to be straight at the platform since I'm not sure what kind of S-curves might be required to deviate around a wider platform before returning to a straight path. That being said, I guess they could have used the full grass median and left long two wedges at either end of the platform to return to the regular alignment.
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(05-05-2021, 01:15 AM)nms Wrote: I was assuming that the engineering preference would be for the rails to be straight at the platform since I'm not sure what kind of S-curves might be required to deviate around a wider platform before returning to a straight path. That being said, I guess they could have used the full grass median and left long two wedges at either end of the platform to return to the regular alignment.
Or just move the track over for the entire block.
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(05-05-2021, 07:13 AM)danbrotherston Wrote: (05-05-2021, 01:15 AM)nms Wrote: I was assuming that the engineering preference would be for the rails to be straight at the platform since I'm not sure what kind of S-curves might be required to deviate around a wider platform before returning to a straight path. That being said, I guess they could have used the full grass median and left long two wedges at either end of the platform to return to the regular alignment.
Or just move the track over for the entire block.
Yes, in our system the tracks are deliberately kept straight for the entire length of the platform; and most new systems are designed under this constraint, to maintain small platform edge gaps. For this reason there will most likely never again be built anything like New York’s old City Hall station. But that being said there is plenty of space to ease the tracks over before and after the station or to slightly redesign the entire block as Dan suggests.
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My friend caught a photo of a double train running today. I'm not sure if they're doing testing, or if one is disabled, but that was a fun catch.
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Didn't look like anyone was on board either one, so I am guessing some sort of testing or disabled tram as you said. Only one had the pantograph deployed though. Nice picture though.
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With only one pantograph up I wonder if they're doing unpowered pull-through testing on the new 515.
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(05-15-2021, 12:04 AM)taylortbb Wrote: With only one pantograph up I wonder if they're doing unpowered pull-through testing on the new 515.
Likely. I don't think it has really been out yet, so they're perhaps testing the wheels and tracks.
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(05-15-2021, 12:04 AM)taylortbb Wrote: With only one pantograph up I wonder if they're doing unpowered pull-through testing on the new 515.
Could be. Looking at the car, the doors by the wheel covers are not installed. If I remember, 515 didn't have them installed when they arrived as well.
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I'm parking this here because the accident involved LRT infrastructure at the Erb/Caroline intersection, but it wasn't clear to me whether an LRV was actually involved as I couldn't see one on the scene.
Around 11:30am on Thursday, I drove from Caroline to Erb. There was a four-door sedan pointing mostly south, up on the pedestrian island and wedged up against the south side of at least one pole. It looked like there might have been damage to the hood of the car, but I couldn't tell. Police were directing traffic, a tow truck had just arrived to move the car and someone from RailTerm was also on site. Later that day, I was driving northbound on Caroline around 5:00pm, before heading west on Father David Bauer Drive. Service trucks were in the intersection, likely readjusting the poles.
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(05-21-2021, 12:26 AM)nms Wrote: I'm parking this here because the accident involved LRT infrastructure at the Erb/Caroline intersection, but it wasn't clear to me whether an LRV was actually involved as I couldn't see one on the scene.
Around 11:30am on Thursday, I drove from Caroline to Erb. There was a four-door sedan pointing mostly south, up on the pedestrian island and wedged up against the south side of at least one pole. It looked like there might have been damage to the hood of the car, but I couldn't tell. Police were directing traffic, a tow truck had just arrived to move the car and someone from RailTerm was also on site. Later that day, I was driving northbound on Caroline around 5:00pm, before heading west on Father David Bauer Drive. Service trucks were in the intersection, likely readjusting the poles.
I heard about this on Twitter. Frankly uncomfortable given how crowded that island is...but not unexpected given how unsafe that road design is.
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(05-21-2021, 12:26 AM)nms Wrote: I'm parking this here because the accident involved LRT infrastructure at the Erb/Caroline intersection, but it wasn't clear to me whether an LRV was actually involved as I couldn't see one on the scene.
Around 11:30am on Thursday, I drove from Caroline to Erb. There was a four-door sedan pointing mostly south, up on the pedestrian island and wedged up against the south side of at least one pole. It looked like there might have been damage to the hood of the car, but I couldn't tell. Police were directing traffic, a tow truck had just arrived to move the car and someone from RailTerm was also on site. Later that day, I was driving northbound on Caroline around 5:00pm, before heading west on Father David Bauer Drive. Service trucks were in the intersection, likely readjusting the poles. Nobody seems to have taken any pictures.
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(05-22-2021, 02:53 PM)Acitta Wrote: (05-21-2021, 12:26 AM)nms Wrote: I'm parking this here because the accident involved LRT infrastructure at the Erb/Caroline intersection, but it wasn't clear to me whether an LRV was actually involved as I couldn't see one on the scene.
Around 11:30am on Thursday, I drove from Caroline to Erb. There was a four-door sedan pointing mostly south, up on the pedestrian island and wedged up against the south side of at least one pole. It looked like there might have been damage to the hood of the car, but I couldn't tell. Police were directing traffic, a tow truck had just arrived to move the car and someone from RailTerm was also on site. Later that day, I was driving northbound on Caroline around 5:00pm, before heading west on Father David Bauer Drive. Service trucks were in the intersection, likely readjusting the poles. Nobody seems to have taken any pictures.
Indeed, it's a bit surprising that there aren't photos.
There's plenty of evidence though, piles of absorbant contaminated with whatever toxic fluids leaked out of the overturned vehicle...just another societal microaggression by car culture.
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