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Old Posted Oct 12, 2016, 9:35 PM
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Originally Posted by Olden Retreiver View Post
Most of the curves in the Canada Line along Cambie Street are for geological readons - to avoid the hard volcanic rock of Little Mountain (QE Park)
Also, isn't there some efficiency reasons? Like, it's better to have a station at the top of a gradient if possible, so you use gravity when you leave the station to help out acceleration and gravity when slowing down in the approach to a station.
     
     
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