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Originally Posted by ken0042
Would some kind of temporary platform be put into place while Chinook is being done? Like maybe just south of the station? Or would that be too costly?
Of course- I'm also assuming there is room between the LRT and CP tracks.
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It wouldn't be between the LRT and CP tracks, but between the LRT tracks and the CP right of way, since there's no way from both a legal and practical sense to infringe on the CP right of way, even if only for a few weeks, without CP being willing to reducing their operations along the line and jumping through the hoops to do so, which they wouldn't. Either that or somehow put it on the west side of the LRT tracks.
Honestly I don't think it would be possible to erect any sort of temporary platform that would be safe enough for lots of people to use and access for a few weeks. There are a couple of small, thin metal platforms along the system that operators use to switch directions of travel. There's one just south of the Haysboro storage facility in the middle of the tracks, you can see it if you know what you're looking for as you speed by on the train. Trains come out of storage southbound, they stop at the little platform, and there is an operator waiting there, he gets on the north end of the consist, and then it heads into service northbound. Anyway, something like that platform would be easy enough to set up, but it just wouldn't be safe to use for large numbers of the general public.
Maybe if the closure were going to be 6 months or something, and that was going to be happening at most stations, they could justify building something a little more robust, then transfer it between the various stations as they close for work. But there's only a couple or three stations needing closures of a few weeks.