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Sort of unrelated question but it's across the street and caught my interest... What on earth is this red circled area for?

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The city's evolution into a proper major city has meant our LRT stations are being looked at more as something to live near versus something to drive to and then train. We've yet to do proper TOD (here's looking at you Franklin, Westbrook, Anderson, etc.) but we're on step closer.
 
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CalgaryTiger said:
The city's evolution into a proper major city has meant our LRT stations are being looked at more as something to live near versus something to drive to and then train. We've to do proper TOD (here's looking at you Franklin, Westbrook, Anderson, etc.) but we're on step closer.
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We're definitely getting there. It's slower than I'd like to see, but at least there has been some movement. I just wish the city was more proactive on using their land towards these kinds of developments.
 
ahuch said:
Sort of unrelated question but it's across the street and caught my interest... What on earth is this red circled area for?

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Heritage has got to be one of the wilder bus loop designs we have - it's clearly been reorganized a few times and and has lost a ton of it's coherence about what is going on, at least visually. I had to look up the map to guess what all the loops and roads were supposed to be for:
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That whole short-turn route about 25% of the area is just for Route 149 to Point Trottier Industrial, which is about 25 to 30 headways max all week. The kiss-and-ride loop is also egregiously large, especially because I doubt people know it exists given the public parking lot is not accessible from here.

I feel we could condense the bus loop down about 50% while improving wayfinding, reducing wild crosswalk angles and generally just improving transit access. For the 50% of land we don't need we could build another of this type of development.
 
CBBarnett said:
Heritage has got to be one of the wilder bus loop designs we have - it's clearly been reorganized a few times and and has lost a ton of it's coherence about what is going on, at least visually. I had to look up the map to guess what all the loops and roads were supposed to be for:
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That whole short-turn route about 25% of the area is just for Route 149 to Point Trottier Industrial, which is about 25 to 30 headways max all week. The kiss-and-ride loop is also egregiously large, especially because I doubt people know it exists given the public parking lot is not accessible from here.

I feel we could condense the bus loop down about 50% while improving wayfinding, reducing wild crosswalk angles and generally just improving transit access. For the 50% of land we don't need we could build another of this type of development.
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Email the councilor that's elected next week.
 
MichaelS said:
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Up until 2008 there was a building there. Unforutnately Streetview and my memory doesn't go back far enough to show what it was.
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I believe it was a community medical centre back in the day. The kind of place you take your young kids to get vaccines. Perhaps in the era of Joe Rogan fans, there’s less demand for this sort of thing.
 
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