Nyhaven: Views From Within (Nuclear City - 5/8)

[Battlecat]

Fantastic job on that park, that's a huge investment in green space, which is always great to see in a city of this size!  Great job with the layout, it really did come together nicely! 

[danielcote]

Very beautiful! I love the design and layout of the mall, fountain and parliment buildings. It's looking very open and beautiful! keep it up.

[ecoba]

I really like that new plaza, quite a nice place for a capital.

The whole winding part of the city is very beautiful. I could live there.

Hope you do well with your dinner, but no I don't think I'd enjoy that food, I'm a picky eater, it has to be good food, all cooked in a certain way, and all vegetarian.

Ethan

[just_a_guy]

Looking good! The mall looks great. It somewhat reminds me of the big open green space in between the smithsonian museums in DC. I could see lots of people layig around on the grass enjoying a sunny day at the mall.

[Earth quake]

Good update.
The park is really splendid.

[djvandrake]

Looks great.  Very fitting to connect the centers of government. 

[joelyboy911]

Very nice. Those really were some nice flags! 

But seriously - nice lotting there Zack. 

[KoV Liberty]

Nice job there Zack! Very cool.

[woodb3kmaster]

Ryan (carkid1998): Thank you, Ryan! The "foresty area" you saw is, in fact, the grounds of the royal palace, if you were wondering.

Battlecat: Thanks! I've been trying to make Kendall into more of a "green" capital, and I'm glad you like what I've done!

Daniel (danielcote): Thank you! I'm glad you approve of my layout for the city, as well as my custom lots.

Ethan (ecoba): Thanks, Ethan! I appreciate your comments, and I'm glad that you like Kendall so much that you could imagine living there. The dinner went very well; we had a packed house, as usual. I can sympathize with you, as I'm pretty picky myself when it comes to food.

just_a_guy: Thank you! If the Royal Mall reminds you of Washington, that's because I tried to make it look like the real National Mall there, so I'm glad you see the similarity!

Viven (Earth quake): Thanks! I appreciate your kind words.

djvandrake: Thank you! That's exactly what I was hoping to read, so I appreciate it very much!

Joel (joelyboy911): Thanks, Joel! I thought you might like those flags I'm glad you like the lotting, too.

Alex (Driftmaster07): Thank you! Good luck in the village competition!





The 2400's were a busy time in my career, what with all the different projects I had going on. In 2404, they got even busier. One morning, I opened up my copy of the Sentinel to find the following story at the top of the page:



A real tragedy had struck the city, and it was all because of local transportation infrastructure. Sure, there had been accidents on those rails before, but this was the worst such accident in all my time working for the city. I knew something had to be done to prevent another tragedy, so when I got to work, I set about planning a way to keep cars and trains from meeting on those railroad crossings.



The solution was really pretty obvious. The crossings had to be grade-separated, and the easiest way to do that in that part of town was to elevate the railroad tracks on their own viaducts. The plans were constrained by the locations of two very busy train stations, so the viaducts would only be about 0.3 mile long. I wanted to elevate the platforms at the more easterly station, but for the time being, I couldn't do that. As the plans stood, there would be a total of three at-grade crossings replaced by underpasses, and each of those streets was busy enough to warrant it.



In July 2405, we broke ground on the first of three parallel viaducts. The railroad company required us to keep most of the tracks open at any one time to allow passenger service to continue uninterrupted - a good idea, in my opinion, since those tracks were loaded with passenger trains almost every day. With that in mind, I decided to replace two tracks at a time. My workers started work on the northernmost of the three viaducts by tearing up the old tracks in preparing the site for construction.



Since we didn't need to grade the site because of the existing track slopes, we were able to start building the viaduct itself not long after the last rails were cleared from the site.



To speed things up, crews started building at both ends of the future viaduct and worked towards each other. The overpass over University Avenue went up pretty quickly.



The first viaduct was finished before I knew it. My crews sure worked quickly!



It didn't take long to start working on the middle viaduct. Once the workers had gotten into the swing of things, there was no stopping them!



Like with the first one, the second viaduct came together at breakneck speed. I could hardly believe that it was almost done, and it was only September 2406!



When it came time to build the southernmost viaduct, we had to do a little prep work. That pair of tracks connected to the Downtown Rail Loop, which I had built some time earlier. We couldn't simply shut the loop down while we built this final viaduct, so we had to lay a short stretch of tracks connecting it to the middle pair of tracks, since the viaduct for those rails was now open.



As the winter rains pounded Nyhaven, we kept working on the last viaduct. The finish line was in sight!





At last, in May 2407, all the viaducts were opened ceremonially, although the first two had been in use for a little while already. I had succeeded in making the city streets a little safer!

[Battlecat]

Nice job!  That's quite the project, I'm sure it was a serious disruption to the normal commute though!

[djvandrake]

Great job Zack.    I always enjoy your presentation, and that was quite a project.  Judging from the length of that train, it's a heavily used network.

[KoV Liberty]

Very good job there Zack! I love those viaducts the NAM team makes. Very realistic. Do you have any coastal ports on the Pacific? Or just inland?

[petjuh]

I really like the look of the new rail viaducts... but a viaduct instead of a tunnel in 2406? btw I love the park

[Battlecat]

I really like the look of the new rail viaducts... but a viaduct instead of a tunnel in 2406? btw I love the park

It would make a lot of sense if there's already a subway line running through this area. 

[Glowbal]

Very nice! I love the map.. and your story lines are as always, brillant

[danielcote]

Nice elevated tracks and it sounds like you needed it after that SUV crash!

[Swesim]

It has been a while since I commented on this, but I have to say that it is always interesting to lurk around in this thread to see what You and Your crew are up to.
Sorry to hear about the accident with the SUV, but it reminds me of the situation where I live where we have had several accidents lately although the crossings have been deemed safe by the authorities...

[Earth quake]

Nice work and excellent story.

[calibanX]

I like the story, and those pics of the viaducts going up are great.

Geoff

[Nanami]

I like your story a lot!