Sentence examples for elevated structures from inspiring English sources
The Transport Workers Union and Public Advocate Betsy Gotbaum yesterday criticized a decision by New York City Transit to reassign 177 maintenance workers from elevated structures to track cleaning, saying that many of the stations still need repairs.
They are used on exclusive guideways, often in tunnels or on elevated structures, and their average speeds (including station stops) may approach 30 mile/h.
These factors make MagLev-Cobra ideal to run on elevated structures inside cities.
All development to date has been built without underground facilities, such that even the parking garages are in elevated structures above the street-level commercial floors.
Transit vehicles at high speeds where propulsion system noise dominates are 7 dB(A) noisier at 50 ft on concrete elevated structures than on at-grade on tie and ballast.
The prediction of wind driven snowdrift development around complex surface obstacles and elevated structures presently relies heavily on experience and experimental and numerical flow field analyses using, for example, boundary layer wind tunnels, cryospheric wind tunnels, water flumes and computational fluid dynamics (CFD).
In the 1990s, as the line lay unused and in disrepair (despite the fact that the riveted-steel elevated structure was structurally sound) it became known to a few urban explorers and local residents for the tough, drought-tolerant wild grasses, shrubs, and rugged trees such as sumac that had sprung up in the gravel along the abandoned railway.
"With a hulking elevated structure covering half the neighborhood," said Mr. Schechter, the block in question is "not so residential".
It faces the intensely active East River, and it is tucked under and beside the elevated structure of the F.D.R. Drive.
About that time, the elevated structure for what is now the F train went up, erasing any rural atmosphere that had survived.
Although the Harlem River Drive was later threaded under the 155th Street Viaduct, the elevated structure survived without major changes until the 1960's, when most of the railings and lampposts were replaced with modern equivalents, or simply removed.
