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Originally Posted by GenWhy?
EDIT: Unless you meant at-grade?
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Yup, my bad. Though you yourself may be confused with mixed traffic alignments; the C-Train and Valley Line are both at-grade
and on-road, but
not in mixed traffic.
Again, WRT Vancouver, the current plan for the streetcar is to run the whole thing at-grade but in the segregated ROW (okay) except for a few critical segments.
- 16th-6th, where the NB rail splits off and runs down Arbutus itself in mixed traffic. (much less okay)
- 6th-Granville Island, where it runs down Fir in mixed traffic. (slightly less okay)
- Granville Island-West 1st, where a new ROW replaces two lanes of 6th. (much less okay, just because that'll really slow down the 84).
- Quebec, where the ROW ends and both rails are in mixed traffic all the way to Waterfront. (definitely not okay)
If it's just a feeder route replacing the 16/50, no problem... but if we're serious about the streetcar being a SkyTrain relief line on a high-density corridor, #1, 3 and 4 are going to be trouble. 41st-49th might need grade separation too.
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