Here's an update on the
Troy Transit Center from the 2/25/13
Troy-Somerset Gazette...
In his monthly update to council,
Troy’s Economic Development
Specialist Glenn Lapin reported that
construction is on schedule and on
budget. There’s just one fly in the
ointment, and that already brought
anti-Transit Center voices to the
microphone before last Monday’s
council meeting was over.
The problem? In the past two weeks Canadian
National Railroad (CN) has imposed a
new safety requirement that will
require the addition of a crash wall
between the tracks and the west
(Birmingham side) elevator tower (no
wall is needed on the Troy side). The
wall will provide added protection to
the tower structure in the event of a
train derailment. This new requirement
has caused construction to stop
as our Architectural/ Engineering
team works to design a wall that will
be acceptable to CN and meet the
American Railway Engineering and
Maintenance-of-Way Association
(AREMA) guidelines.
As
mentioned in a previous post, Troy City Councilman Henderson had good news from the Michigan Department of Transportation (MDOT)...
Late breaking news is that MDOT will be providing funding that has already been allocated to this areas rail projects to the crash barrier... we are still waiting for details of the total additional costs.
Click here to read the entire article in the
Troy-Somerset Gazette.
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