Re: All of the above ignore easements . . . 
| November 01, 2017 08:46AM |
Russo Loco Wrote:
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> legal kind of easement, not the engineering kind
> of easing into a curve and/or superelevation .
> . .
>
IIRC, those are known as Transition Spirals by Civil Engineer types.
Side note: When I was a tad (14 or so) I considered Civil Engineering as a career but I found out that mostly it was building Highways those days (ca '75), yuck. Now I hear there is a shortage...
hank
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> legal kind of easement, not the engineering kind
> of easing into a curve and/or superelevation .
> . .
>
IIRC, those are known as Transition Spirals by Civil Engineer types.
Side note: When I was a tad (14 or so) I considered Civil Engineering as a career but I found out that mostly it was building Highways those days (ca '75), yuck. Now I hear there is a shortage...
hank
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