Railways located in the median of the Expressway?

[Mother of Invention 23]

BTW has anybody mentioned Chicago yet?

[GoRockGo36 0]

Originally posted by: sim_city-freak there is one on the allen expressway in toronto the advantage u get to laugh at the cars stuck in traffic while u are zipping by at 60km /h and the cars r like oh man i wish i had a right of wayquote>

 

True that

[SteveMSim 275]

A portion of the newly completed New Mexico Rail Runner Express, a commuter rail line between Albuquerque and Santa Fe, runs in the medium of Interstate 25.

[trism 0]

Originally posted by: hamsterTK

Transit rail is common in or along freeways, but I am having a hard time thing of more than 2 where freight trains are in the median.

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There's a stretch (~2.5 - 3 km) in Montreal where a freight/passenger rail line runs down the median of the highway. (Hwy 20 west of the Hwy 15 interchange.) The tacks run directly through the middle of the interchange too (photo). It's even more strange because for that portion of the highway cars drive on the left side of the median. The tracks then continue alongside the highway until they're off of the island.

[RedImperator 16]

The NJ 55 expressway (running from Deptford, NJ, a few miles from Philadelphia, to a junction with NJ 47 about 20 miles from the shore) has an extremely wide median from Deptford to Glassboro intended for a never-built branch line of the PATCO High-Speed Line (the existing line runs from Philadelphia through Camden city and then several towns in Camden County, while the branch would run through Gloucester County to the south). There's finally serious talk about building the branch line, as Gloucester County has experienced exponential growth in the last 20 years and STILL has no passenger rail service of any kind. I'd prefer actually that they'd revise another proposal, which is to grade-separate and electrify the Conrail branch line from Camden down through Gloucester City, Westville, Woodbury, and several other towns before arriving in the middle of Glassboro, but between Conrail's opposition and the bleeping NIMBYs, the NJ 55 option might be the more realistic.

[A.Aperson 0]

In Los Angeles, most of the Metro Green Line runs down the median of the 105.

[thepianist 0]

I thinks someone mentioned SF's BART Pleasanton-Dublin line runs a portion along I580.

Just wanted to add it's the same along CA24 along the Pittsburgh-Bay Point Line in Oakland.

[reedalson 0]

Here in the Detroit Area, we have none, but most of the proposed Blue Line light rail will run down the median of I-94. The run will be from Michigan Avenue in Dearborn to near Merriman Road in Romulus by Detroit Metro Airport.

[k4driver 0]

I think Pittsburgh is working on one

[Retep Molinari 68]

Can't find pics right now, but San Francisco's J Church light rail line runs through San Jose Ave, which is an extension of I-280. Also, in the East Bay BART runs down the middle of some freeways.

[Fresh Prince of Wmbg 44]

In Richmond Virginia I-195 has a railway in the median from I-95/64 Interchange to Powhite Pkwy Interchange

[iGod 6]

Well, in Germany most of the new build high-speed tracks are build next to or inbetween the Autobahn lanes. Which can sometimes be quite funny because over here you can actually have a decent race with the trains. It's quite impressive if you're going around 240 km/h and look at the people next to you in the trains.

[zombones 0]

Originally posted by: Mother of Invention

Not exactly a freeway,but CSX has a line that goes right through Lagrange,Kentuckey

(Photo credit goes to Jeff Wagoner, an online friend)quote>

wow that is damn near surreal!

How slow does it go though?

[MrWacko 0]

San Francisco's BART and MUNI rail systems use the median extensively. BART runs along the freeway medians of highways CA-24 (20 miles), I-580 (17 miles), and CA-4 (10 miles), on 3 of its 5 routes. MUNI light rail runs along the medians of many of San Francisco's avenues/boulevards, including 19th Avenue, King St/Embarcadero, 3rd Street, Junipero Serra Blvd., and probably more, but I'm to lazy to actually look up the rest. It should be noted that BART is a completely at grade metro system, while MUNI switches between automated subway and manual control on surface streets.