Markster
Senior Member
I think that's just a factor of poor labeling. It's pretty much assured that any in-road sections are going to be paved with concrete, to allow emergency services access.Edit: Hold on a minute, I'm analyzing the ROW profiles here (scroll down a few pages), and it seems like the tracks are in a separate little "basin" created by the curb of the road. I guess this means they could add the track after paving the road.
BUT, the surface of those track "basins" seem to be loose gravel. Are they not going to be using the same cement that they've been using for the road crossings? It's seriously going to be just loose gravel like the CN spur lines that they've been realigning the tracks to? That's kind of gross looking for the middle of the city.
If you go to page 28, you can see what a cross-section looks like when its ballasted track adjacent to a road: sub-ballast, ballast, and then rail ties.
In contrast, the in-road sections always have four layers, which seems like it matches up with the pictures I've seen of TTC streetcar track rebuilds: ballast, base concrete layer, track foundation layer, then in-laid track layer. It's probably a different texture in the diagram because it's a different kind of concrete than the curbs and sidewalks.