Recent content by accord1999

Calgary has a community profile page where it breaks down the demographics for all its neighborhoods. It is a few years old now though as it's based on the 2021 Census. https://www.calgary.ca/communities/profiles.html At that time, the Downtown Core, Beltline, East Village and West End, and...

There's probably also a lack of desirable homes to downsize too. The popular older person home is the medium size bungalow that has everything they need on the ground floor and usable yards to garden. But that's only really found in old suburbs, they don't really exist in new communities due to...

Back in 2020, they released a document that looked at various options. If you didn't have to cross the CPR tracks and connect North and SE you could save a lot of money. For about 15% more than $4.9B estimate of the selected 2020 plan, you could have a NC line from 64th run down Centre Street to...

That really has more to do with the decline of DT for commutes due to job losses and remote work rather than transit investment. Transit ridership was also down between 2015 and 2023 while peak hour LRT capacity was reduced...

You're very kind but I likely would be not neutral enough... Based on the 2021 concepts for the 16th and 9th Ave Stations, I think these further north stations would still be pretty substantial. You need to protect the waiting riders from weather and water/snow vehicle spray...

What did the Green Line do between 2017-2024? Even if it's just a 3 month project, how are they still investigating utilities on the section that was supposed to be the most shovel-ready and reserved for a future LRT?

Given the hypothetical Stonegate station being only about 5 km from Livingston, and 6.5 km from North Pointe, they should just extend the Blue Line to one of these two locations. With the Green Line for North Calgary essentially dead, that's probably the only way Far North Calgary will ever get LRT.

With the questionable economics as pointed out by darwink, maybe it's the first step to having some permanent 2-car trains that will run all week. The article also mentions. But this leads to the question of where is the so-called transit ridership recovery? If they're able to use with 3-car...

If you have Google Earth on the desktop, often its historical imagery will allow you to select a newer image set than the default used by it or Google Maps. For that area, there is imagery from last October:

The original schedule (from 2015) was construction to start in around 2017-2018, but the massive plan change in 2017 pushed the start date back to 2020. Given the provincial economic and political issues, Alberta wasn't in a good position to offer more money (beyond the promised $1.5B) and the...

From the July 30 press conference, it was reported that deferring the Centre Street station was also going to save $400M. And I think from the way they phrase it as a "deferral", that they were still going to build the station box for it which would be still a significant expense. I wouldn't...

Here's a low-resolution overview map of the challenging area from the 2014 North Central LRT Corridor Study Appendix E

The NC corridor already has a large number of buses running through it during work days. That is where LRT should have gone.

Even in 2019, it was estimated at upwards of $1B. Basically the side effect of the joining the SE to the NC. Since the NC portion was supposed to need LRT soon as bus capacity would not be adequate for Centre Street N, the whole project skipped BRT. But then chose to prioritize the SE at...

I think they're commenting on Austin's Project Connect plan, which originally prior to 2021 was an ambitious multi-billion dollar LRT expansion with a significant downtown tunnel. However like the Green Line, construction costs skyrocketed and the downtown tunnel was effectively canceled when...