Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1910-10-07
FORMAL ORDER MADE
Grade Crossing on Depot Street
Must Be Abolished
Passenger Station, Highway and over
pass Not Published Until Now.

Some Details Concerning Proposed New
Passenger Station, Highway and over
pass Not Published Until Now.
Pursuant to an agreement between the
selectmen of Brattleboro, the village of
Brattleboro and the Central Vermont
Railway company that an order for the
adjustment OF the Central Vermont
crossing on Bridge street and the cree
tion of a new passenger station be is
sued the public service commission has
issued such order in a formal way this
week. stating that the grade crossing is
one of the most dangerous on the Cen
trail Vermont road in Vermont.
The main features of the changes
which will be necessitated in abolishing
the crossing, such as building a new sta
ton, grading Vernon street and building
a bridge over the tracks in order to reach
the Connecticut river bridge, have been
described in general in The Phoenix, but
some details are specified in the order
which have not been published. Refer
ences to a plan" are to the blue print
of the proposed changes submitted to the
commission.
After giving the boundaries of Vernon
street as they will be when the changes
are made the order continues:
The above highway shall be graded to
the width indicated on said plan, prop
erly drained, crowned and covered with
six inches of good gravel.
said highway shall be carried by
steel bridge over the tracks and yard of
the Central Vermont railway on level
grade and at such an elevation as will
give a clear distance between the under
side Of said bridge and the top of rail of
the Central Vermont tracks of at least
% feet.
said bridge shall be lis feet long, and
of such width as to provide a driveway %
feet wide with a sidewalk four feet wide
on the north side thereof. The sidewalk
shall be protected by suitable ratings.
Said bridge shall be designed to carry,
in addition to it's own weight, live load
Of one hundred pounds per square foot
of driveway and sidewalk, and a concen-
trated load on the driveway Of 20 tons on
four wheels, spaced five feet by ten, and
shall be supported by suitable abutments
of concrete masonry.
Where said bridge joins the highway
on either side, suitable curved approaches
shall be made, as indicated on said plan.
There shall be constructed an in
clined plane or ramp, extending from the
east end of said bridge northward 416
feet to connect with Bridge street.
This ramp shall be constructed by
building two side walls of Portland ce-
ment masonry, designed for retaining
walls, providing for drainage, and filling
the space between with earth or rock;
finishing the top surface for a driveway
and covering this with six inches of
gravel
This ramp shall be made wide enough
to provide for a driveway % feet wide
and one sidewalk four feet wide. The
grade of said driveway to be not over six
per cent. A suitable guard railing shall
be built on the top of the walls on each
side of this ramp.
There shall also be a new highway laid
out, attending from the west end OF said
bridge southwark to connect with Vernon
street at a point about 275 feet south of
the Central Vermont freight house"
Then follows a statement of the bound
aries of the new highway which must be
three rods wide, graded to a full width of
25 feet, exclusive of bitches, crowned,
drained and covered with gravel, with no
grade exceeding six per cent. After di-
recting that new station be built the or
der says;
shall be built and maintained along the
westerly portion of Vernon street and eX-
tending from Hudson street southerly to
the point where the new highway con-
meets with the old highway about 275 feet
south of the Central Vermont freight
house.
In the construction of the new high
way, side slopes shall be made on the
westerly side thereof, using as far as
necessary present Vernon street as far
back as the easterly line of the ~ foot
driveway above described. And no more
retaining wall shall be built on the west
side of said road than is necessary with
said slopes. The side slopes to be finish
ed neatly, and in the immediate vicinity
of the proposed station to be faced with
concrete if found necessary
Upon the completion of the work
herein ordered, Vernon street, from the
northerly line of Central Vermont prop
erty occupied by Ryan to southerly line
of Central Vermont property occupied by
Devine, shall be discontinued, and sc
much thereof as lies west of the IL foot
driveway, heretofore described, to re-
vert to the Central Vermont Railway
company
upon the completion of the work
herein ordered Bridge street where II
crosses the Central Vermont tracks, from
the west line of the new platform, east
erly to line made by extending south
erly the west line of the Crosby building
shall forever thereafter be discontinued
and the Central Vermont railway COM
pany and its successors in the operation
of said railroad are hereby ordered for
ever thereafter to fence and bar said
Bridge street crossing from public travel
THE work herein ordered shall be com
menced forthwith, and shall be com
peted on or before December 10, 1911, and
shall be done to the satisfaction of thi!
commission.
within three weeks after the compile
ton of the work herein ordered, the Cen
trail Vermont Railway company shall fill
with this commission in triplicate, anC
with vouchers, an itemized sworn state
ment of the expense thereby Incurred.
"All the expense properly incurred II
fulfilling this order, including the pay
ment Of any land damages, shall be born
by the state of Vermont, the town o
Brattleboro and the Central Vermont rail
way company, in the following proper
tons: The town of Brattleboro, 10 pc
cent; the state of Vermont, 20 per cent
but in no event more than $12,500, ant
the Central Vermont Railway compan
the remainder of said expense"