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Issue with a bridge is what is it connecting to on the south side of 6th? This Contemporary Calgary thing? A sidewalk?

You cannot just do a bridge, you would need a little Greenlane down to 9th and connect it to the 11 Street underpass. I say Greenlane because you don't need a whole street but just a connector where people can walk and ride. Then you're connecting the Beltline, Millennium Park, Contemporary Calgary, Riverwalk and the river. the Bridge could also be a gateway for whatever happens with the mess that is west of here.
 
thecivilengineer said:
They can connect the river area with elevated bridge/garden structure, need something wide though.
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Thats exactly what I was thinking. Why not connect this with the proposed Riverwalk West development? A bridged garden/green space would fit perfectly with the proposal as released so far.
 
Mountain Man said:
Not sure there will ever be a meaningful connection between this area and the river sadly, Bow Tr. isn't going anywhere, unless they bury it and I think that's a non started based on cost and flood risk. If they can make sure this connects well to the west end at least, then I'm happy with that. Once West Village becomes a thing, a good connection there is critical, but the clusterfuck interchange at 14th will need some though.
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I doubt this will ever rise to the top of the priority list, but I would be really interested in a complete overhaul on the 14th/Bow/6th/9th interchange one day. It's one of the first of Calgary's bizarre one-off interchanges, the grandfather to all our bizarre and unpredictable intersections citywide. So much land consumed in a prime area, eventually it will be time to revisit it.

I'd imagine it's very dependent on if we continue with our downtown one-way philosophy, if 9th or 6th converted to 2 ways and the major Bow connection was shifted to a single 9th Ave alignment instead of along the riverbank, it would open up a long better connections and future development (once people wrap their head around the West Village creosote thing).
 
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Mountain Man said:
Not sure there will ever be a meaningful connection between this area and the river sadly, Bow Tr. isn't going anywhere, unless they bury it and I think that's a non started based on cost and flood risk. If they can make sure this connects well to the west end at least, then I'm happy with that. Once West Village becomes a thing, a good connection there is critical, but the clusterfuck interchange at 14th will need some though.
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Excuse the crude drawing, but it seems remarkably straight forward to me.

The issue would be the 14th street intersection as it currently runs under the CP tracks, but there's enough underpass examples downtown that it doesn't seem like a non-starter.
 
MissingMiddle said:
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Excuse the crude drawing, but it seems remarkably straight forward to me.

The issue would be the 14th street intersection as it currently runs under the CP tracks, but there's enough underpass examples downtown that it doesn't seem like a non-starter.
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With the amount of traffic volume going west out of downtown on 6th Ave at 4:30, I don't see how you funnel that traffic to 9th Ave without reworking the whole of downtown traffic flow. The big issue is most of the streets are narrow and the blocks are short. I don't think there's a way to eliminate 6th Ave, maybe run it along the blue line to meet up with 9th Ave? That gives you more riverside park space, including the opportunity to run pathways under 14th using the old 6th Ave lane space, and completely opens up the area west of 14th Ave. Could still do a green lane down 11th Street and bridge over 6th Ave. Not much new work required: A new 6th Ave bridge over 14th Street, a new bridge over the connection from 14th Street northbound to 9th Ave, and a new bridge over the connection from 14th Street southbound to 9th Ave.

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darwink said:
Nothing impossible about this:


I think it is entirely possible to turn this into a park.

The only question is how much it is worth to do it versus the opportunity cost of not doing a neighbourhood of some sort.
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Maybe a park with a bit of development on the west side of it :) ...and possibly a pedestrian bridge connecting over to 19th street.

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Surrealplaces said:
Maybe a park with a bit of development on the west side of it :) ...and possibly a pedestrian bridge connecting over to 19th street.
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You've had a soft spot for canals for decades. The unfortunate thing is that canals would require a lot of remediation.
 
darwink said:
You've had a soft spot for canals for decades. The unfortunate thing is that canals would require a lot of remediation.
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The canals have always been a pipe dream, at least for that location. Maybe somewhere in another part of the city.

If I had a magic wand, my all time pipe dream would be to move the CPR tracks and replace with a canal running from Crowchild area to to the confluence.
For those who haven't seen it before, it would look something like this. Alas, it'll never happen, but fun to think about.
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Surrealplaces said:
The canals have always been a pipe dream, at least for that location. Maybe somewhere in another part of the city.

If I had a magic wand, my all time pipe dream would be to move the CPR tracks and replace with a canal running from Crowchild area to to the confluence.
For those who haven't seen it before, it would look something like this. Alas, it'll never happen, but fun to think about.
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A single project like that would be an epic transformation for Calgary and I would love to see that happen, but,
Even with the CPR tracks moved and if we didn’t have to worry about remediation, there aren’t enough Calgarian’s who think outside of the box to see a vision like that come to fruition.
 
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