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From page 142... ... 142 Case Study A: Review of Sound Wall Context In accordance with NEPA, the West Rail Line in Denver, Colorado, received an ROD in April 2004 and a Revised EA/FONSI in November 2007. Due to noise impacts along the alignment and at at-grade crossings, mitigation commitments by the Regional Transportation District (RTD) Read the entire page →
From page 143... ... Case Studies 143 Source: Google Earth Figure 141. Plan view of the crossing. Read the entire page →
From page 144... ... 144 Guidebook on Pedestrian Crossings of Public Transit Rail Services Source: Pitts Figure 143. A swing gate, along with quad gate improvements, at the crossing of Independence Street. Read the entire page →
From page 145... ... Case Studies 145 Case Study B: Location of Station Entrance Context For the Los Angeles Little Tokyo community, the location of the light-rail station is between the tracks on one side of the street and on one side of the intersection (in other words, the platform is not a split or staggered platform) Read the entire page →
From page 146... ... 146 Guidebook on Pedestrian Crossings of Public Transit Rail Services Source: Texas A&M Transportation Institute Figure 148. Illustration of the revised patron path to access the station. Read the entire page →
From page 147... ... Case Studies 147 Source: Fitzpatrick Figure 150. New southern entrance to the platform (highlighted on photo with a circle) Read the entire page →
From page 148... ... 148 Guidebook on Pedestrian Crossings of Public Transit Rail Services An example of the sign used at the station entrance is shown in Figure 153, and Figure 154 shows the signs presented to patrons exiting the station at the southern end. These signs are on a post embedded in a raised median. Read the entire page →
From page 149... ... Case Studies 149 intersection shown in Figure 156 needs an indication of when to turn left (as opposed to right or forward) to enter the station. Read the entire page →
From page 150... ... 150 Guidebook on Pedestrian Crossings of Public Transit Rail Services to pedestrians who are blind. Pedestrians who are blind do not receive orientation to every station that they might use, and they may not realize that they are at a center platform station and must turn and cross the street or rail lines upon exiting the station. Read the entire page →
From page 151... ... Source: Fitzpatrick Figure 159. Raised island used to mark the edge of the crossing. Read the entire page →
From page 152... ... 152 Guidebook on Pedestrian Crossings of Public Transit Rail Services ways. They are properly installed in pairs to indicate the beginning and end of travel within a hazardous area. Read the entire page →
From page 153... ... Case Studies 153 Source: Texas A&M Transportation Institute Figure 164. Illustration showing where a detectable warning should not be located (at the bottom of a ramp leading from a raised median platform) Read the entire page →
From page 154... ... 154 Guidebook on Pedestrian Crossings of Public Transit Rail Services If there is no platform or station entry within the crossing, there is no need to indicate the track crossing separately from the roadway, as noted in the Proposed PROWAG (58) Read the entire page →
From page 155... ... Case Studies 155 to force users to slow and face oncoming trains before entering tracks. In order to ensure designed elements would work as planned, Tri-Met instituted a pedestrian channeling test project, in which temporary barriers simulated the designed barriers. Read the entire page →
From page 156... ... 156 Guidebook on Pedestrian Crossings of Public Transit Rail Services Source: Texas A&M Transportation Institute Figure 168. Illustration of pedestrian flows before installation of barriers. Read the entire page →
From page 157... ... Case Studies 157 show how pedestrian flows changed with the addition of barriers at the crossing approach. As illustrated in Figure 168, the pedestrian may be looking away from the oncoming train. Read the entire page →
From page 158... ... Source: Wilkinson Figure 172. Before south multi-use path crossing improvements. Read the entire page →

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... 142 Case Study A: Review of Sound Wall Context In accordance with NEPA, the West Rail Line in Denver, Colorado, received an ROD in April 2004 and a Revised EA/FONSI in November 2007. Due to noise impacts along the alignment and at at-grade crossings, mitigation commitments by the Regional Transportation District (RTD)