Montgomery, Edward T wrote: > What I find interesting is the planning Lackawanna put into these > bridge designs. Someone must of have been considering the increase > in automobile traffic back then. It would have been very easy to > make the Taylortown Road Bridge a one lane hole-in-the wall but they > didn't. The same goes for the road widths of the underpasses on the > Cut-off. The engineering department was looking ahead making sure > they wouldn't have to come back in 15-20 years and install a bridge > to accommodate a wider roadway. I think it is more likely that by the early 1920s New Jersey mandated that the bridge abutments had to be outside of the road Right of Way. bob gillis The Erie Lackawanna Mailing List http://EL-List.railfan.net/ To Unsubscribe: http://Lists.Railfan.net/erielackunsub.html ------------------------------
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