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EuroStar » Wed Aug 01, 2018 10:08 am
The videos may have been made to impress legislators with the importance of the projects; if they succeed in getting more money they will have been well worth it.
The software has a built in capability to record video and the ability to manipulate perspective.
Services like this are routinely included as part of an engineering and design contract or could likely be done in house.
Regardless this video is indeed very helpful.
EuroStar wrote:The FTA grants that NJT is applying for require projects to provide at least 10% capacity increase. Anything below 10% is not eligible for the grants. Given that the proposed North Portal Bridge is only two tracks, the same as the old one there are limited avenues to increase capacity. One is to increase the speed of the trains and therefore the throughput, but they cannot really do this because they cannot push more trains through the tunnels. So NJT came up with the trick of increasing capacity by bundling into the bridge project an order for more multilevel cars which are to replace the remaining single level trains. Given that multilevel cars can and do run on the existing bridge, this strikes me as likely to be against the spirit of the FTA grant requirements, if not against the legal verbiage that spells those requirements.
EuroStar wrote:Couple of interesting facts from the latest Gateway Program Development meeting:
1. There are optical cables "attached to the Portal Bridge" that are "the main lines into NYC and provide data transmission for Wall Street". Some of these cables are being relocated for by the preliminary work. That was news to me. I have to ponder where the fiber optic cables cross the Palisades and the Hudson river. If it is the existing tunnels under the river that would be just WOW!
2. 60% of the water in Jersey City is provided by an 1860 cast iron water main pipe that crosses the Northeast corridor tracks. That is definitely something that adds to the project cost as clearly they need to take all precautions possible to avoid damaging the pipe during construction given that the new approaches to the bridge will need to cross the pipe too.
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