Re: Road-Rail Grade Separations
Author: mook
Date: 03-04-2015 - 21:03

When you're adding grade separations in an urban area, they have to be a "one-off." The "best" combination of features will be different at each site. Some paperwork streamlining is available, but ultimately each site needs special attention, and that costs money.

In rural areas, where land is cheaper and less interference from existing development exists, it should be possible to use a more or less standard design for several grade separations and cut cost a bit. Unfortunately, most rural counties and communities don't even have enough money for one, let alone several, so the potential scale economies are lost. They usually end up waiting for some big highway (or HSR?) project that adds grade separations as an incidental item.



Subject Written By Date/Time (PST)
  Road-Rail Grade Separations mook 03-03-2015 - 23:15
  Re: Road-Rail Grade Separations Margaret (SP fan) 03-04-2015 - 00:01
  Re: Road-Rail Grade Separations Max Wyss 03-04-2015 - 02:18
  Re: Road-Rail Grade Separations BOB2 03-04-2015 - 01:15
  Re: Road-Rail Grade Separations mook 03-04-2015 - 20:51
  Re: Road-Rail Grade Separations Max Wyss 03-04-2015 - 02:13
  Re: Road-Rail Grade Separations Taxpayer 03-04-2015 - 07:15
  Re: Road-Rail Grade Separations mok 03-04-2015 - 09:03
  Re: Do you actually know? BOB2 03-04-2015 - 10:24
  Re: Do you actually know? mook 03-04-2015 - 10:52
  Re: Do you actually know? DRD 03-04-2015 - 13:21
  Re: Road-Rail Grade Separations Max Wyss 03-04-2015 - 10:03
  Re: You make sense Max-what's wrong with you? BOB2 03-04-2015 - 10:40
  Re: You make sense Max-what's wrong with you? mook 03-04-2015 - 11:09
  "and would save us many billions in fuel and congestion costs alone" Taxpayer 03-04-2015 - 14:25
  Re: You make sense Max-what's wrong with you? Max Wyss 03-05-2015 - 02:20
  Re: Road-Rail Grade Separations SP3878 03-04-2015 - 15:19
  Re: Road-Rail Grade Separations mook 03-04-2015 - 21:03
  Re: Road-Rail Grade Separations SP3878 03-05-2015 - 12:04
  Re: Road-Rail Grade Separations mook 03-05-2015 - 12:26


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