Mysterious Monorail Work

[Monorail Lime]

Barrier work is underway outside of the Contemporary/BLT. The steel-reinforced Jersey-style barriers are about 3 feet high and a little over a foot away from the pylons. The completed ones are filled in with dirt.

I'm not an engineer but it looks to me like these could survive just about any vehicular collision!

 

[Tom]

Barrier work is underway outside of the Contemporary/BLT. The steel-reinforced Jersey-style barriers are about 3 feet high and a little over a foot away from the pylons. The completed ones are filled in with dirt.

I'm not an engineer but it looks to me like these could survive just about any vehicular collision!

Awesome! Thank you for the pics. I was really needing closure on this one and hoped someone would come through.

Those will be fairly substantial. #4 or #5 rebar dowels at 12" on center inside presumably 3000psi or greater concrete will take quite an impact.

It sounds like they'll also become planters, so at least they'll look nice.

If you can grab any more pics of the progress and/or final products, I'd love to see them!

 

[jchargu3]

Awesome! Thank you for the pics. I was really needing closure on this one and hoped someone would come through.

Those will be fairly substantial. #4 or #5 rebar dowels at 12" on center inside presumably 3000psi or greater concrete will take quite an impact.

It sounds like they'll also become planters, so at least they'll look nice.

If you can grab any more pics of the progress and/or final products, I'd love to see them!

on the upside, they'll also create a wider footprint for those specific beams... So no sinkage worries

 

[unkadug]

on the upside, they'll also create a wider footprint for those specific beams... So no sinkage worries

I doubt that they compromised the integrity of the beam columns by tying them into the impact walls. I would see no reason for that. :shrug:

 

[Tom]

I doubt that they compromised the integrity of the beam columns by tying them into the impact walls. I would see no reason for that. :shrug:

Exactly right. These walls are likely sitting on their own little foundations. The rebar dowels sticking up from the ground are evidence of this.

If anything, the load from these walls and their foundations will put more downward forces on the pylon foundations. However, I doubt they would have put these in if they thought for a second that there would be a negative impact on the current structural integrity.

 

[Main Street USA]

Great thread, Tom...and thanks to Monorail Lime for going out to grab some pics.

 

[PhilharMagician]

Oh no I was told by a bus driver that those are just new planters. They are really putting track switches in at thos locations to split to all the resorts along with DHS and AK. More permits should be up soon for the new track prep. :lookaroun



























Good thread Tom and good job with the google pics!

 

[mp2bill]

I guess they're expanding the monorail. :lookaroun

In all seriousness, does anyone have a map of where the monorail pylons are located? If these pylons require maintenance, I wonder why these ones would be in such a state that they would require maintenance.

Ditto.