Famed Durham NC bridge will no longer kill as many ACs

wnjj wrote:

dodge guy wrote:

zcookiemonstar wrote:
Well I am pretty sure if the railroad could raise it higher they would. If you read the article it says they can't because of the train station. The city could dig the street lower and get some more height that way.

I agree. For some reason the city doesn’t want to go out of its way to help the driving public. They could lower the road at least a foot!

I’ve read that they can’t do that because of several utilities that run under the street.

I am actually surprised they got the railroad to make the change. A lot of the time the existence of the railroad predates the existence of surrounding surface streets. They railroad can say 'it's not our fault you built the road at the wrong level'.

But yeah, when we are talking inches here, removing a couple layers of old pavement can go a long way. And I cannot believe any buried utilities are that close to the surface that the road can't be lowered a bit.