Recent content by accord1999

The name change annoyed me as well when trying to match the old plan with the current naming system. After a bit of searching, 196th turns out to be Seton Boulevard. At a high level, it seems to be a possible ROW. But looking at recent Google Earth imagery, they made it harder on themselves by...

In the old plans like the Area Structure Plan or the 2017 Green Line alignment and stations report, it was supposed to angle back eastwards after the station. But the road network and land usage in the immediate surrounding area has changed a lot since then, looking at the Seton lot map it...

The NC BRT study noted the problems with the DT as well, and has some details about possible DT improvements including a bus only lane and change in routing to improve it. https://pub-calgary.escribemeetings.com/filestream.ashx?DocumentId=162697 However one thing that I don't see discussed is...

That page is from the 2002 APTA Fact Book you can get here: https://www.apta.com/wp-content/uploads/Resources/resources/statistics/Documents/FactBook/APTA-2002-Fact-Book.pdf I took a quick read through their 2024 Fact Book to see if they had any updated value for the ratio but I couldn't find...

My guess is that the only practical way for a system like CT is to do sampling of representative routes and time to figure out the ratio of boardings per start-to-end trip and use that to estimate the number of actual riders for the entire system. At least with Calgary, you don't have to deal...

May be diesel heaters, that's what TTC is using for their New Flyers and Novas. https://www.toronto.ca/legdocs/mmis/2025/ttc/bgrd/backgroundfile-257225.pdf

I hope that these stations are easily expandable so they can run 3-car trains if the Green Line ever reaches its original extent.

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...