mook Wrote:
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> The pictures I've seen of the lower deck (in a
> couple of Key System books) show an off-balance
> setup. Tracks are on one side (the north?). 3-lane
> road is on the other side. 3-lane because that's
> how passing was done Back Then - suicide lane.
> Tracks were *not* in the middle of the road.
>
> I was barely noticing things when the tracks were
> removed and the bridge converted to 5 lanes each
> way - I'm thinking 1958-9-60? Do remember the
> "Hump" when the deck was being lowered through the
> tunnel so there would be clearance on the upper
> deck for trucks - given the panic caused by a
> simple slow-order S-curve in the East Span
> construction, I could just imagine what the
> lawyers now (and the zoned-out drivers) would do
> with a "hump" like we had back then. Lower deck of
> the western span still has the excess height
> needed for the overhead for the trains.

Ol' Mook had this to say... "I was barely noticing things when the tracks were
> removed and the bridge converted to 5 lanes each
> way - I'm thinking 1958-9-60?"

Not correct, Sir.. After the trains quit running on April 20, 1958, those tracks on the bridge lower deck stayed in place for almost THREE additional years. BART had even looked into the possibility of using them. Too bad, too, because some $ 300 million plus dollars could have been saved by NOT building an underwater tube.

KRK