re: Train hits car on Metairie Road

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It is built over an existing public road. No buildings/houses would need to come down. You could do something like this:

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Okay, the minimum clearance over top of rail for freight lines is 23 feet 4 inches.

So how exactly does that, with the appropriate rise over run to meet that requirement, work with the roads, parking lots entrances, trees, and power lines?

Assuming they can keep those parking lots for all those businesses open, it will create sightline problems so that the train accidents will likely be replaced with car accidents.

And if they go under it, you still have all sorts of issues with roads, the entrances and then add in potential flooding of the underpass.