Posted on 07/06/2019 4:07:52 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
This group is an extreme leftist group.
possible but i doubt it... it doesn’t even start to rise till about the 2oclock position on the circle and the max elevation doesn’t need to be met till the stanchion just before the tracks
Go to any major urban area with a serious highway congestion problem, and invariably youll find the same historical pattern in the background: a state DOT using a large sum of Federal highway funding went out decades ago and built a major highway in an area that wasnt heavily populated. Everything seemed to be done right back then. Then, over time, municipal governments all along that highway corridor said: Hey, what a great highway! Now we can approve shopping centers and residential subdivisions, and people can live out here and work in that city 10 miles away. Its only a 15-minute drive from here!
That sounded like a great plan until everyone had he same idea ... and within ten years that 15-minute drive became a two-hour ordeal.
This story has been repeated endlessly across the U.S. The crux of the problem is that everyone wants to have the authority for land use decisions vested in local governments, but they want someone else to pay for the infrastructure that is needed to support the development.
Albertas Child, P.E.
Where was that photo taken? Im guessing its one of the areas along the Alameda Corridor in L.A. where a former grade crossing was eliminated to accommodate the growing rail traffic out of the Ports of L.A. and Long Beach.
Lawrenceburg Indiana built an elevated westbound U.S. 50 that looks to be steeper than what the pictured straight connector would have been.Also check out the “ramp in the sky” I-465 to east I-74 on Indianapolis southeast.
no doubt
how gentle a grade to you need in a place that never has snow or ice?
we have steeper grades than that here in the NE where we DO have snow and ice
The U.S. Interstate system is the greatest mass transit system known to man.
I can actually check this out when I'm in the office next week. Can you tell me where that photo was taken?
I’m sure that’s part of it.
It’s time to get all parties together, and get on track to build more infrastructure.
Freeways will typically be designed for a maximum grade of 5% even in mountainous areas. That means the road will need 100 feet of horizontal distance for every rise of 5 feet in the elevation. That means you need 400 feet of horizontal distance to get 20 feet up in the air, and that doesn't even include the transition curves at either end of the grade where the road flattens out.
Look at that photo closely, and you can see that it is a very tight arrangement. The vehicles are large compared to the aerials I saw of the two locations you described.
no idea... what’s the highest elevation to cross the tracks 30’ doesn’t seem that high or that steep but than again i’m no PE
For a railroad line that carries doublestack intermodal trains, a minimum vertical clearance of 23 feet is required. That’s the distance from the top of the rail to the bottom of the bridge structure.
Looks like it is staging space for vehicles entering a tunnel. The tunnel speed is slower than the road, and cars in the tunnel cause a slowdown on the road. One of the tunnels going into Manhattan NY has something similar, because they collect tolls at the opening of the tunnel.
i guess anything’s possible
The political usage of “progressive” actually started in the 1800’s was specifically meant to mean more government control.
Don’t look for any other meaning or outcome when it comes to this Leftist political label. There is NO other outcome for Leftist “progressive” than more government control.
But as with generally every Leftist term, the usage and actual experience is exactly the opposite of the term’s inherent meaning. The Left deals in lies and confusion and is the materialization of George Orwell’s 1984.
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