Recent content by KrisYYC

Crane at Elbow and Southland (The Nines) is up now

Impressive how fast a crane can go up. Yesterday only the base was in, walked by today and behold! View from the Library parking lot: About 20 mins later I caught this guy fleeing the scene on Elbow Dr:

Oh man that brings back memories! When I was a kid in the 80's we'd take VIA rail to Winnipeg every summer to visit family.

Selfishly hoping the train to Calgary International Airport is the first to get the go ahead 😁

Thanks!

Does anyone know which project this is in Kingsland? I can't find anything about it. It's on 73rd Ave SW right next to the field of what was Kingsland School (now demolished).

I live in the area so I just took a detour on one of my neighbourhood walks.

Here. I also work for an airline.

Excavation well underway now. This pic was taken on the South end of the site looking North. Elbow Dr. to my right with Southland Dr. right behind me.

Demolition of the old strip mall looks mostly complete, some excavation happening around the entire site now too. The construction fencing (out of frame) has a new Gravity Architecture banner on it now. Sorry for photo quality, it was taken from a moving car that desperately needs a wash.

Gotcha. Interesting times ahead for Calgary with regards to transit.

What about the 24,000 people who work at the airport? Lots of us would much rather take transit to work if it was served by LRT and not some "express" bus that seems more of an afterthought and is still slow as hell. I'm not saying airport staff taking transit would be enough to justify it...

Cool thanks. So a three car consist on the Green line will be much longer than a three or even four car consist of the current Red/Blue line LRV's. I seem to remember the tunneled section downtown will be under 8th Ave? Or was that an old plan?

Can those trainsets be coupled together to make a longer consist for peak demand? Forgive my laziness to back through a 100+ page thread but have they finalized all the design yet? Like how much of this will be underground? The animated renderings on YouTube are about 7 years old now.

I'm sure most on here would agree, but to do that we need to make it easier to be a pedestrian. I had to take my car to the shop today, then walk home. What a frustrating experience. A few hundred meters of sidewalk, unplowed, then it abrubtly stops for no reason and I'm walking on compacted...