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Re: West Seventh Street grade separation project
Author: OPRRMS
Date: 04-16-2008 - 23:47
Key Route Ken Wrote:
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> So, you drive West on 7th St from Broadway, duck
> under the old SP WYE thru the Subway, as though
> you are on your way to Oakland Pier, and come
> face-to-face with a track(s) that cross 7th St "AT
> GRADE" , that weren't there years ago !! RIGHT ??
No. The tracks run parallel to West Seventh Street on the south side, same as they always did. The intersection with Middle Harbor Road is about 1/4-mile west of the ex-SP subways you're familiar with (of which there are now two; the original one is now for westbound traffic and a new one was constructed for eastbound traffic as part of the I-880 / Cypress Freeway project).
> One minor item I might point out is the general
> date(s) of re-developing the area where the Mole
> used to be. The MOLE did not fully disappear from
> the area until 1966. So the building of the
> Seventh Street Container Terminal must have
> started after that date.
Right. The OIG itself and all the related track changes it spawned wasn't started til the very late 1990s. Someone here will probably know the exact dates.
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> So, you drive West on 7th St from Broadway, duck
> under the old SP WYE thru the Subway, as though
> you are on your way to Oakland Pier, and come
> face-to-face with a track(s) that cross 7th St "AT
> GRADE" , that weren't there years ago !! RIGHT ??
No. The tracks run parallel to West Seventh Street on the south side, same as they always did. The intersection with Middle Harbor Road is about 1/4-mile west of the ex-SP subways you're familiar with (of which there are now two; the original one is now for westbound traffic and a new one was constructed for eastbound traffic as part of the I-880 / Cypress Freeway project).
> One minor item I might point out is the general
> date(s) of re-developing the area where the Mole
> used to be. The MOLE did not fully disappear from
> the area until 1966. So the building of the
> Seventh Street Container Terminal must have
> started after that date.
Right. The OIG itself and all the related track changes it spawned wasn't started til the very late 1990s. Someone here will probably know the exact dates.
