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Impressions of Rosengarten tram
filed on: 22.01.2020 (22nd Jan 2020)
Further to yesterday's report on the Rosengartentunnel project, I am posting further pictures of the project from the Rosengartentunnel website.
Unfortunately there are no mock-ups of the top end around Milchbuck and Bucheggplatz. I understand that rather than running around the block at Milchbuck as the trolleybus presently does, trams will use Wehntalerstrasse in both directions and thus approach Milchbuck from the South side.
The first visualization is one that already appeared in the previous posting but is repeated here for completeness, with the tram that escaped from the 2000s already some way below Bucheggplatz.
The next one, a little further down, shows the junction at Lehenstrasse, which isn't really changing much apart from the tram itself. I doubt that the building in the background (presently under construction) is accurate, but we'll see when the scaffolding finally comes down.
The next one down is the lower part of Rosengartenstrasse. The beginnings of the mouth of the road tunnel cause a lot of cluttering of the space and overall asphalt space does not seem to be significantly reduced. On the right of the picture, behind those trees, Röschibachstrasse branches off. This road was once used by a tram line to Bahnhof Wipkingen. So the very short portion of the new tram line from here to Wipkingerplatz (behind us) revives a section of tram that once was.
Here is the same tunnel mouth seen from a little further away, showing how the trams will run on either side of the road that emerges from the tunnel.
The next one is not at all tram relevant, but just for completeness, here is a view of the road tunnel. This is facing Hardbrücke. The road tunnel will be four-lane between the lower end and the intermediate tunnel entrance ramp at Bucheggplatz, and just two lane onwards towards Milchbuck. At the lower end (picture), the four lanes split with one per direction going up to Hardbrücke (as seen from the outside in the previous two views) and two down to Wipkingerlatz (as seen from the outside in the view that will follow after this one).
And finally Wipkingerplatz. The tram will continue on Hardbrücke itself. This is a surprising decison seeing there are already tram tracks running under the viaduct. So there will be two tram lines running one above the other here for a distance of three stops.
To complete the overwiew, here is a map showing both the tram line along its full length and the road tunnel making its curve. The tracks between Bahnhof Hardbrücke and Hardplatz are already in place. The rest must be built.
All pictures can be enlarged by clicking on them.
source: rosengarten-zuerich.ch
This news item is from the 2020 newslog.
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