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passive provision en · NOUN
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(uncountable) Empty or currently unused features of infrastructure, deliberately planned during construction in order to facilitate later upgrades.
At the Isle of Dogs there will be passive provision for a second ticket hall.
2007 November 14, Great Britain: Parliament: Select Committee on the Crossrail Bill, Crossrail Bill: first special report, session 2006-07, Vol. 2: Oral evidence, 17 January to 23 March 2006, The Stationery Office, →ISBN, page 7:[…]work to install a new flyover at Hitchin, which takes Cambridge-bound trains over the East Coast Main Line (ECML), included passive provision for the central section of East-West Rail to link into the ECML.
2017 September 30, Gareth David, Railway Renaissance: Britain's Railways After Beeching, Pen and Sword, →ISBN:On occasions such emergency escape infrastructure may be used for peak period traffic, or may incorporate passive provision for later conversion to regular use should rising traffic levels warrant this.
2000, Julian Ross, Railway Stations: Planning, Design and Management, Architectual Press: