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Go Elevated or try for Underground?

  • Work with the province and go with the Elevated option

    Votes: 57 72.2%

  • Try another approach and go for Underground option

    Votes: 19 24.1%

  • Cancel it altogether

    Votes: 1 1.3%

  • Go with a BRT solution

    Votes: 2 2.5%
  • Total voters
    79
Each station page also has a download for the site plan
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outoftheice said:
Sort of. There are a bunch of 60% design renderings on the Green Line page. For some reason there's not an easy central page to click through all the station designs, you have to use the top right menu bar to expand a couple menus and click on each station individually.
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I hope that these stations are easily expandable so they can run 3-car trains if the Green Line ever reaches its original extent.

Ninety-metre platforms will provide ample boarding space for 2-car trains (84m long).
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accord1999 said:
I hope that these stations are easily expandable so they can run 3-car trains if the Green Line ever reaches its original extent.
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No interlining so not expected to be an issue anytime soon. Also without underground stations expansion is easy in comparison.
 
FCC1982 said:
^Is that was that new asphalt is - I assumed it was for a future ramp detour.
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That’s another possibility I had considered but they made it bump up so that it connects to the staging area where the piledriver was. I could he wrong but it seemed too deliberate. I dunno. Maybe some industry person on the forum would know better.

Either way I never realized how massive and heavy those things are. Took a mobile crane just to lift the mast and other gear into place. If it’s that big it might make sense that it needs a ramp of sorts to move down to street level even if it’s only like a meter difference 🤷‍♂️ .
 
As a public transit advocate (in this forum only haha), I really hope the green line construction goes better than this... started construction in 2011!


Went back to page 238 because I was trying to remind myself of the timeline on the segment from 4th Street SE in to the downtown. Revisited the live wire article and it is actually pretty soon.

In the below article Dreeshen’s March 19th statement read:

the City of Calgary will also begin work immediately on the planning and design development for the downtown segment,”

“This work will be based on the Government of Alberta’s plan and alignment, using 10 Avenue and 2 Street SW. The design is expected to be completed by 2026, leading to construction on the downtown segment beginning in 2027.”

livewirecalgary.com

Good news, not so good news: Green Line gets fed approval, downtown questions remain - LiveWire Calgary

Calgary Mayor Jyoti Gondek said she’s happy to see the south leg of the Green Line advancing, but there are still questions about the province’s desire to go above ground through the downtown. The mayor held a media conference outside Michael’s Pizza Restaurant on 10 Avenue SW, a backdrop to...
livewirecalgary.com livewirecalgary.com

I initially got excited thinking we were 4 four months from a completed design but I am aware at the bottom of the article the mayor said:

"the functional planning for the downtown portion of the line would take between 18 months to two years to complete. After that, it would need a review by Calgary city council and ultimately require approval to move forward."

So it seems like the minister needs a language arts lesson and should've said, "completed in 2026". Either way I'd love an update on if any of the worries that mayor had on "the alignment's feasibility, cost and long-term impacts, including property and structural impacts, including noise," were founded.

Being almost 6 months since the business case was approved, I think an update is in order.
 
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If a politician says "by 2026" I'd take it to mean "by December 31 2026 probably maybe perhaps".

I may be mistaken, but it looks like there is only one council meeting of any kind before the election and it's next Tuesday. Agenda is pretty much just dozens of land use amendments and a bit of follow up to the land-use bylaw amendments that were voted down before summer.

Then no other council meetings (and very few committee meetings) scheduled until December 15 (though another calendar shows a regular council meeting Sep 15/16; maybe it just doesn't have an agenda yet). I wouldn't hold my breath on any update!
 
I'm pretty confident in the City's ability to build LRT, there's been 40 years worth of lessons learned and the switch to a Design-Bid-Build procurement overseen directly by a city business unit and Calgary Transit directly procuring the LRVs themselves. Wrt the Green Line it's all been political meddling and the "tunnel vision", I expect construction to go pretty okay and similar to West LRT.
 
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