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In fact, it was as hard-fought as any bike-infrastructure victory in Seattle, complete with die-hard car advocates, business owners who said eliminating space for cars would put them out of business, and naysayers who claimed building grade-separated infrastructure for bikes would cost too much and take away too much space from cars.

Dragging Seattle Into The Transportation Future « PubliCola 2010

What we were originally aiming for was a fixed crossing, and we were seeking features such as the grade-separated pedestrian/bicycle crossing at the UW rail station, which is now in the plan.

Neighborhood Activists Still Oppose State’s 520 Option « PubliCola 2010

In my opinion, the vision wherever HSR is built has to be for dedicated (and completely grade-separated) tracks with an average speed target of 150 mph or so.

Matthew Yglesias » Where to Build HSR 2010

Having grade-separated bikes routes would be ideal.

Ballard Businesses Propose Missing Link Alternative « PubliCola 2010

A core national network of high-capacity, grade-separated, electrified rail corridors, providing adequate capacity and reliability for both freight and passenger service in the 79-115 mph range makes excellent sense.

Rail Investment Makes Sense, if Not High-Speed Rail 2011

A model to follow might be the Rhine-Ruhr region, which also has many centres, with grade-separated very-limited-stop regional express trains and surface light rail routes that turn into subways in the city centres.

Province pushes Evergreen Line ‘aggressively’ « Stephen Rees's blog 2010

Skytrain is just about the ideal transportation system for a number of reasons: the seamless flow into the Millennium line at Lougheed as well as the speed, automation, and reliability that comes from it being grade-separated.

Province pushes Evergreen Line ‘aggressively’ « Stephen Rees's blog 2010

To get your light rail lines, you create a straw man -fixed, grade separated transit – and say it is very expensive ignoring the cost-benefit analyses of surface compared to grade-separated rail for these routes.

Canada Line delivers a smooth ride « Stephen Rees's blog 2009

After we did all of the consultation and preliminary design, it turned out that about 40 per cent of the LRT line would have had to be grade-separated: elevated from the Lougheed Station over to North Road, the tunnel from Burquitlam to Port Moody and, due to the traffic volumes, underground at the Lougheed/Barnet/Pinetree intersection.

Mayors suggest Evergreen Line switch to save money « Stephen Rees's blog 2009

Your quarrel seems to be with any technology other than light rail, though you disguise your argument to be against grade-separated transit.

Canada Line delivers a smooth ride « Stephen Rees's blog 2009