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It wasn't dragging out the process that caused, it was the Green Line team massively under-estimating costs and over-promising how ready it was. The original plan was to start construction in 2018 and finish all 40 km in 2024. What dragged it out was the Green Line team having to revise things...

People in North America often say that but most of the new LRT lines in the US haven't grown overall transit ridership. In some cases, the cannibalization of bus services (due to needing to pay for the expensive trains) or re-routing them to feed train stations means overall ridership went down...

Speaking of Shepard, there's an article today in the Herald again questioning the value of the Green Line Stage 1 given its current costs and terminal points with comments from Jim Gray and Neil McKendrick. McKendrick has some harsh words concerning ridership: The article also throws in a...

The Route Ahead update documents have been published on the City website. For the first time, they've scored and ranked Green Line extensions. https://pub-calgary.escribemeetings.com/Meeting.aspx?Id=8873da23-c7d4-4882-9639-7027ec4fb48a&Agenda=Agenda&lang=English&Item=21&Tab=attachments

I'm assuming that only the mockup is using wood (and probably cheaper grades of steel) since it's only intended to show what a real LRV would look like and will never be used operation and need to handle that stress.

There's an old study from 2006 that claims 7th Avenue could theoretically handle a peak of 36 trains per hour in one direction. But that was back when they wanted to connect both the NC and SE LRT to 7th Avenue from the East. It could be a case of "Situating the appreciation", assuming factors...

Is the 8th Avenue tunnel still on the table? Reading from the November 2020 RouteAhead report it seems like it won't be in consideration for 20-30 years with the expectation that the Green Line will reduce need in the interim...

The challenge and cost of going up Centre Street N is why I think the next extension must be laser-focused on going to 64th only. I don't want a replay of 2017, where they supposedly get enough money to go in both directions but future circumstances changes that and the Green Line team gets to...

But the only real possible extension at such a point, given the uncertainty of whether Stage 1 even crosses the Bow, is for it to continue further south. A bitter pill for NC Calgary to swallow given how the NC LRT was essentially cut in Stage 1. Unlike the Green Line, Valley Line SE only only...

Yeah, I could be too pessimistic. The new Green Line governance and management team hopefully will allow the project to progress better then before and the high oil prices give Alberta the financial resources to extend the Green Line (and hopefully not just to pay for Stage 1 overruns). But I...

In the "Updated Segment 2 Alignment Concept Plan GC2020-0583", it does state that buses would be able to go on the LRT guideway. In ideal conditions, it would be beneficial to the limited stop buses that don't need to stop between 16th Ave and the Centre Street Bridge, but accidents and winter...

At least for the 2017 version, it being underground up to 16th Ave meant that bus and vehicle traffic wouldn't be impacted until money was available to go to 64th. And once construction could start, it would just be a few years of pain until buses could offload riders. But with at-grade from...

I suspect that current planners only really care about reaching 16th Ave in any fashion and will let somebody else in the future deal with the consequences. As it is, just to have any hope of getting to 16th within budget requires them to use the Option E that was rated poorly and rejected back...

I guess the planners of the mid-2000s didn't expect the planners of the mid-2010s to go hog wild with tunnels and plan a 4 km tunnel for the first version of the Green Line.

The North Calgary Regional Transportation Study prioritized improved links between Airdrie and North Calgary. So in the 2028 timeframe, the goal is to upgrade most of Range Road 11 between 40 Ave (Airdrie) to 144 Ave (Calgary) and connect it to the new 11st Interchange to allow for another...

The Route Ahead update from 2020 provided some additional details. It is ranked #3 in terms of benefits behind the 52 St BRT and 301 improvements. https://pub-calgary.escribemeetings.com/Meeting.aspx?Id=28340ee4-3a29-4ccd-bb0f-2182a6c2b00d&Agenda=PostMinutes&lang=English&Item=20&Tab=attachments

That Crowchild project isn't funded though. As it is, the Green Line already accounts for more than 50% of Calgary's allocated capital spending, 9X more than streets and roads.

At today's Green Line Board meeting presentation, they presented a timeline of future work, with real construction not starting until 2024.

If you look at the example overhead view of the future Centre Street/16th Ave intersection at post #999 and Attachment 4 from GC2020-0583 (https://pub-calgary.escribemeetings.com/filestream.ashx?DocumentId=131771), they are planning to block off intersections from the start. Only 7th, 9th...

Even without any delays from the UCP government, I'm not sure any real construction could have started earlier given the leadership changes that were being made. The last managing director, Allan Neill, left in September 2020, a new Green Line board was formed over the new year to have better...