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Originally Posted by GenWhy?
Those two roads seem to have a similar grade as Connors Hill Road in Edmonton which runs an at-grade LRT line in its own ROW.
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Perhaps Google is tricking my eyes, but Connors Road on streetview looks much less steep than E 3rd or E Keith.
My extremely rough calculations based on topography have the E 3rd hill with a 9% average grade and the steep section of E Keith from Heywood to Cloverley with a 12% grade! The peak slope is certainly higher since those roads are definitely not linearly slopey.
I'm not sure what the steepest part of Connors Road is but it seems pretty gradual and the stretch from the footbridge up to 95th is around 4% grade on average which is pretty typical for dedicated passenger rail.
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