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unusual facts about underpass



Constantine tramway

The works include 11 stations, three of which are multinodal (tram-bus-taxi), two viaducts stretching 465 and 114 metres, an underpass for urban traffic (with an open cutting at 70 metres at the Emir Abdelkader Mosque), 12 supporting walls having an overall length of 1,885 metres, a ground level depot (65,000 sq. m.) that guarantees the maintenance and parking of 27+20 trains.

Croydon Underpass

The Nestlé Tower, a landmark in Croydon, is located on top of the underpass, along with the Fairfield Halls and Croydon Clocktower.

Esplanade MRT Station

The underpass linking CityLink Mall and Suntec City Mall had been closed since 2003 to facilitate the construction of the station and pedestrians had to use a temporary covered overhead bridge to cross Raffles Boulevard.

Five Ways, Birmingham

It takes its name from a major road junction, now a busy roundabout (with pedestrian subways through a traffic island) to the south-west of the city centre which lies at the outward end of Broad Street, where the Birmingham Middle ring road crosses the start of the A456 (Hagley Road).

Frankfurt Zeilsheim station

A pedestrian underpass was built to provide a western entrance connecting to the Ferdinand-Hofmann estate and the Internationale Schule Frankfurt Rhein-Main in Sindlingen.

Grand Rapids Medical Corridor North Pedestrian Tunnel

The Grand Rapids Medical Corridor North Pedestrian Tunnel is a tunnel in Grand Rapids, Michigan connecting the Lemmen Holton Oncology Center with Butterworth Hospital and Helen DeVos Children's Hospital.

Hellbent Games

The company's name was taken from graffiti sprayed on an underpass below Bridge Street, near the London Eye,in the United Kingdom.

Kastellokampos

It is connected with the road connecting the GR-8/E55 (Athens - Corinth - Patras) and Proasteio and Rio, it also connects direct with the old road via an underpass.

Kendall Drive

A similar neighborhood lies beyond the expressway underpass as SR 94 continues eastwards, though its surroundings are soon broken up by the Baptist Hospital of Miami to the road's south as it approaches Galloway Road (SR 973).

Lars Gule

Gule has explained that the DFLP proposed three targets for him: a bomb could be placed either be in a pedestrian underpass in Tel Aviv, in the President Hotel in Jerusalem or outside an apartment complex with gas containers outside in what was called a “bourgeois neighborhood”.

Los Gatos Creek Trail

On 20 October 2007, the section of trail connecting Lonus St. and Auzerais Avenue, including an underpass of Interstate 280, was opened.

Marion railway station

The underpass is proposed for the northern end of the station in order to avoid storm water infrastructure at the southern end of the station, placing it closer to Marion Road and further from nearby Westminster School.

Quiapo, Manila

In recent years, the local government of Manila, spearheaded by then Mayor Lito Atienza, launched the Buhayin ang Maynila ("Revitalize Manila") project which greatly rehabilitated Quiapo and its vicinities, most especially Plaza Miranda, the Arsenio Lacson Underpass and the University Belt.

Shellpot Branch

An additional non-electrified track which serves DuPont's Edgemoor freight siding splits off from the NEC at the Interstate 495 underpass.

Strathmore railway station

A pedestrian underpass is situated at the Craigieburn end of the station and the railway crosses Moonee Ponds Creek a short distance beyond the station.

West Paschim Vihar

In this area, the outer ring road is maintained by the MCD and has a flyover at Peera Garhi Chowk and an Underpass and roundabout at Bhera Enclave/Sunder Vihar Crossing.

Yishun MRT Station

Before the underpass link to Northpoint was completed in 1993, there was a pedestrian crossing that linked the station and bus interchange.


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