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Originally Posted by FarmerHaight
Is there any reason an events centre couldn't be built on a deck over the bus loop? Does Translink have any say in the air above that space?
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Originally Posted by mcj
Aside from disrupting the bus loop operations during construction, and probably costing slightly more to raise it by the height required for the bus loop, I don't see why not 
Would actually be pretty cool to have a modern integrated bus loop at the bottom of it. |
Maybe part of the reason Translink might not be so keen on the idea of a construction atop the bus loop (and also why they refused to relocate it when Ivanhoe wanted to do their Metro Tower IV there), might have to do with the fact that some of the buses that run through the loop are tethered and need that significant overhead overrun for the power lines.
And any new construction for an overhead events space (read : live loads) needing all that structural load transferred down without adding columns to the bus lanes below, would need significant transfer slabs or slab bands or considerably deep steel girders which might impact how much headroom they have left over for any tethered bus power lines.
Translink may not have a say in what happens in the air above the space above the slab that sits atop the loop, but I would bet they have some say on what happens to that slab in light of those lines.
I'm just speculating here.
But it would indeed be pretty cool if they were ever able to do that.
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