 |
Re: 501 crash info.-Bridge Realignment? Thanks, I thought I'd heard or seen that....
Author: LAS
Date: 12-23-2017 - 09:35
BOB2 Wrote:
-------------------------------------------------------
> I too, seem to recall reading somewhere that in
> the future, this segment of I-5 would be widened
> and modernized, like is being completed north of
> here on I-5, and that then this bridge complex
> would then be rebuilt, and this curve realigned.
>
The only way to fix the problem would to completely eliminate the current bridge and build a longer bridge that would cross I-5 in a more southerly direction greatly reducing the curvature. The speed would still need to be reduced as the line re-enters the BNSF mainline within a short distance. There is also another curve right reentering the BNSF mainline which could only be straightened with great expense and moving Nisqually Rd SW. I still have great doubts of the benefits of this line for Amtrak, especially without solving these problems.
-------------------------------------------------------
> I too, seem to recall reading somewhere that in
> the future, this segment of I-5 would be widened
> and modernized, like is being completed north of
> here on I-5, and that then this bridge complex
> would then be rebuilt, and this curve realigned.
>
The only way to fix the problem would to completely eliminate the current bridge and build a longer bridge that would cross I-5 in a more southerly direction greatly reducing the curvature. The speed would still need to be reduced as the line re-enters the BNSF mainline within a short distance. There is also another curve right reentering the BNSF mainline which could only be straightened with great expense and moving Nisqually Rd SW. I still have great doubts of the benefits of this line for Amtrak, especially without solving these problems.
