Transit systems in highway medians

[Blutorse4792]

In Chicago, the "L" does this in a few spots, and there were plans for the interurbans to do it as well if they hadn't been abandoned.

Which other transit systems utilize this design? I always thought it was cool.

 

[oknotsen]

You mean like here, West of Washington DC?
https://goo.gl/maps/N2Jvg

 

[RRSignal]

Part of the Market-Frankford "El" runs along the median of I-95 in Philadelphia. Specifically, around Spring Garden Station.

There has long been talk of extending the other subway, the Broad Street Subway, up into Northeast Philadelphia, running in the median of Route 1 a.k.a. Roosevelt Boulevard.

Some photos courtesy of NYCSubway.org:

http://www.nycsubway.org/perl/showp...UQV9NYXJrZXQtRnJhbmtmb3JkX0VsZXZhdGVkfG5zdGE=

 

[hauntedclipp]

In Los Angeles, one of their Metro lines and a single-track main line used by conventional heavyweight trains both run on highway medians.
Not exactly sure where either location are, except that they're in the general LA area.
Here's a Metrolink train on the single-track in the median:

Bonus! ATSF 3751 on the median:

Couldn't find any pics of Metro's median-riding line.

 

[bendorsey]

That must have been one heck of a surprise for commuters (lucky stiffs, lol).

Ben

 

[Blutorse4792]

Those are all good examples of what I'm talking about, thanks for the links.

 

[Klinger]

Denver's Light Rail does this for a few miles on I-225, the new extension will be off the the side of the Highway, and along I-25, From Broadway to Lincoln the Light rail runs at the same level as the highway (depressed into the ground) but again, off to one side.

 

[Enkidoh]

Here in Australia there's Perth's very successful Joondalup and Mandurah lines of the Transperth suburban rail system, which run within the median strips of the Mitchell and Kwinana Freeways for most of their length (although the section through central Perth city is underground).

It's basically become something of a model for other cities to follow for improving public transport in Australia.

 

[AMTRAKwannabe]

Not sure if this would count, but Amtrak trains do use these tracks so I think it does but anyways, Richmond, VA has some on Powhite Parkway
*not my photo.

 

[oknotsen]

Here is another example, north of Brussels, Belgium:
https://goo.gl/maps/l5oLc

And here we see tracks between the highway between Amsterdam and Schiphol (Amsterdam) Airport, the Netherlands:
https://goo.gl/maps/RvfT8

 

[jordon412]

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