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    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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  • [–] 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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