jaybone comments on funny how that works

I don't know where you live but here the clearance on a standard overpass is 14'. This is well under the 12'8 needed for the highway, plus the height of the track base, plus the clearance for the train. So the train would have to be built 30' in the air. Might as well put it above a road instead.

If you mean "put train on ground in the middle of the highway" we can also do that the hard part is getting to stations not in the middle of a highway.

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[–] jtrek@startrek.website 2 points 3 months ago

I vaguely remember something from The Power Broker where an engineer said to Robert Moses with a slight change to the design, at no real cost, they would build the roads so trains could be put in easier at any time in the future. Moses said no. Cars only.

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[–] jumping_redditor@sh.itjust.works -1 points 3 months ago (1 child)

I don't think putting at grade trains on freeways is a good idea, unless they had a reliable way of warning people minutes before a train comes through

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[–] LodeMike@lemmy.today 1 point 2 months ago

Chicago has a system like this. The main problem is the stations in the literal middle of the highway.

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[–] JillyB@beehaw.org 1 point 2 months ago

I've wondered how impactful it would be to pass a law allowing all interstates to also count as passenger train right-of-ways. Obviously there would have to be some engineering and modifications to turn a highway median into a train line but it would simplify the land rights probably.

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[–] The_v@lemmy.world 1 point 3 months ago (1 child)

But what about the cars?

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[–] LordKitsuna@lemmy.world 9 points 3 months ago