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Old Posted Jul 15, 2022, 7:55 PM
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I believe thats the flyover that was originally designed to be a MSE embankment but the community feedback over the physical and psychological "barrier" that would create led to the open highway style viaduct. This viaduct could be handled better. That weird exposed girder end where the track swings out for the platform is just the definition of design incompetence. I don't totally hate the colored faux stone form-work but would have preferred either real veneer at the station or something simpler and less "ye-olde", but no doubt an "accomidation" for the community. I admittedly have a bit of an obsession with ivy (and acknowledge it's maintenance challenges), but one solution for harsh concrete infrastructure is to integrate natural plantlife like ivy cover creating a living bridge. I think that would have looked neat as hell and pretty fantastic IMO.
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