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Old Nov 29, 2014, 10:05 am
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Originally Posted by penguin60
One thing puzzled me - the incline which dumps you into the TTS level at t5c. Given my understanding was that HAL had build the tunnels with t5d in mind, once the tank farm relocates, surely you would want the passageway to stay one level down from the TTS - a mirror of t5b.
That bit made me wonder too. Even if they expect C to be the maximum extent anyone would be willing to walk they'd still need the tunnels to D in case the transit broke down.

Unless as C was built after A and B they decided that it would be more user friendly to bring the walkway up to the transit level and then descends again towards D, this would also mean fewer lifts and escalators.

I believe T2 has been built with the space in place to already accommodate either an extension of the T5 TTS or its own one when T2C is built.

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