Comment 106033

By Crispy (registered) | Posted November 07, 2014 at 10:42:56 in reply to Comment 105878

I'm not an engineer but I am familiar with this area. As per the City's guidelines the maximum allowable road grade is 6%. (See page 50) The clearance of the bridge is 4.1M. Add another metre to get to the road level: 5.1M. I crunched the numbers: to create a level crossing the rise up to the road level of the bridge would have to start at a minimum 85 metres away. 85 metres from the start of the bridge, heading north takes us to the second house on the west side of Kenilworth. (222 Kenilworth). Again this is at a maximum of 6%. (minimum 85 metres) So at a minimum 226 and 222 Kenilworth would have to be expropriated and removed. The city engineer already made this point. (Along with many others.)

There isn't a politician anywhere that wants to go to two tax payers and say "We're taking your houses so we can get rid of a bridge."

The complete disrespect for the judgement of the city engineer is disappointing.

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