Thanks Yuri and Matthew.  I stand corrected and enlightened.

Regards

Dudley

On 1/09/2021 4:10 pm, Matthew Geier wrote:
> On 1/9/21 3:54 pm, Dudley Horscroft wrote:

>> How can the lifeguards flatten out at CQ?  It is dead flat there!

> The station is, but then the land rises to the west. The crossovers are

> on a grade and many cars scape their life guards as the grade changes

> from the flat of the station to the climb up to George Street. Usually

> approaching the station, but some do it leaving too - probably depends

> on the loading of the car.

>

> Pretty sure if I hunt though all the video snippets I have of the CESLR

> I'll have something here you can hear the lifeguard touch the road.

>

> The life guard gates actually have rollers on them so they don't get

> wreaked by a causal tap on the road.

>

>> Dudley

>>

>> On 1/09/2021 1:05 pm, Matthew Geier wrote:

>>> On 31/8/21 12:29 pm, TP wrote:

>>>> The issue is Australia is not being on a gradient per se, but whether

>>>> the gradient is compliant with the maximum allowed under DDA

>>>> regulations. Wheelchair users can have difficulties if the gradient is

>>>> too much. I recall that this is cited as the reason from not having

>>>> the stop in George St near Liverpool St - whether true or not or just

>>>> an excuse I don't know. But I do recall at one stage they were

>>>> considering excavating at the upper end of the stop and filling at the

>>>> lower end in  order to bring the grade into compliance and perhaps

>>>> they gave it up as too hard/costly.

>>>>

>>> Rate of change of grade would have been too much. They already have it

>>> wrong in two places with the life guards bottoming out at Chinatown and

>>> Circular Quay.

>>>

>>>