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Originally Posted by Richard Eade
Absolutely, but you are pointing out the 'Chicken and Egg' problem. I am trying to point out the segregation problem. I don't think that the Preston Street extension plan included a huge, 5-6m high bridge over the trains. If the LRT design looked farther than the Bayview station, it might have prompted a lower design to help reduce the cost of the Preston Bridge. Already, there is about a 4% grade to drop to Preston.
I also don't buy the argument that the tracks along the aqueduct can't be very deep because the aqueduct will empty into the trackbed. The train could run directly under the aqueduct if desired.
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I think you are quibbling about details far too early. For the most part these drawings are sketches to get an idea across, and try to identify the critical issues of how LRT might pass though the area and how it is accessed by people and buses. Design costs money, and these are just "design intent" wish lists that in the end get passed on to engineers and architects so they can all equally bid on a defined project. The final product may not look like these drawings at all, but will most likely fulfill its important points.
Notice even that the old stone bridges are not on the aqueduct — surely they are not proposing to remove these!
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