Broadway Subway - Millennium Line Extension to Arbutus | U/C

[jollyburger]

Originally Posted by s211

Apologies if I'm unclear. It was my uneducated understanding that the deck is necessary to keep the road open while constructing stations underneath. I'd perhaps mistakenly surmised that the heights of the deck would be significant in order to permit street level access underneath, i.e. allow workers space under the deck to work while the road is deconstructed and to provide excavation access.

Perhaps the engineering is different than I'd assumed.

This photo might do a better job of explaining things.