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The CTrain cannot have signal priority so long as it runs on the street, or else nobody would ever be allowed to cross N-S during rush hour. It wouldn't benefit a whole lot from it either since the lights are specifically timed to allow all the trains downtown to move as a unit and take...

Meanwhile in Livingston steps away from the planned green line station...

New LOC across from Chinook Centre, same proposed zone as the parcel to the south that was recently approved (MU-1f8h110) https://dmap.calgary.ca/?p=LOC2025-0189

I remember the Texas Central Railway had multiple drawn out court battles over about 6 years on whether or not it was legally a railroad and could survey and expropriate private property, a ton of landowners along the alignment hated their guts. Eventually they did get a ruling in their favour...

This version would've been VEd to oblivion into a giant gray slab

Yes

https://dmap.calgary.ca/?p=DP2025-07446

Elevator has been installed

They sent me more marketing emails yesterday so it seems like they're still trying at least

You'd want the line to continue to downtown, just with additional transfer stations in the south. If you had to dump everyone onto the red line that seems like using up capacity unnecessarily

New design by DAAS for Brava Development Corp, Carson Block https://dmap.calgary.ca/?p=DP2025-06579

I wonder if they'll put it back up or if the building is coming down, last week the wrap had a massive tear in the middle of it so maybe it's being replaced

Forgot to post but they were loading up bricks before putting the tarp up

The capacity is slightly less for the length. Each car being longer leaves less interior space lost to cabs and couplers, but the low floor layout takes some away so it nearly evens out