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I wonder if 4th-Shepard is enough to unlock the federal funding?

Yes I understand the plan. I just don't understand why it will suddenly start working out 1. One bus is cheaper to run that one train. The train wasn't going to be terribly frequent. If we get to the point of needing more bus frequency, that's a success! One fairly full bus every 5 minutes is...

Agree to disagree I guess. I don't doubt that it would eventually be added on to - at the expense of all other priorities. I just don't see how that process will become any smoother. Even with an NDP gov't (hope), I don't think we can count on this being an immediate/top priority for them...

Ooph. That would mean a three seat ride for the foreseeable future, and four seats if transferring to 7th! Fully agreed on the DT bus plan, but I think it would be incredibly foolish to build any kind of 'foundation' that is so heavily reliant on future expansion at this point. We are on the...

...and then what? Hope is not a plan, and I can't conceive any plan for the next steps that don't start with the word hope...

At this point I think you have to consider the provincial funding dead and do what you can to secure as much of the federal funding as you can and build anything productive. Which means BRT, because it would be incredibly foolish to build an LRT entirely predicated on future extensions in this...

Ooph. This doesn't make me feel any better about the city's stub line, either. So...how does Eau Claire-Shepard with a tunnel cost $300M less than 7th-Shepard elevated? WTF?

Sunk cost fallacy. Pay cancellation fee. Or re-sell them. Or take delivery and get your ass in gear for the north. We know we've spent about $2B. There is $3B funding to be unlocked, but we can only count on half of that. If you can get the feds on board, this is actually the best Fuck-you...

I'm still on team busway, too. I think you just figure out a full BRT solution for the heart of downtown that also serves yellow/purple/301/etc. Tons of options for that, but I'd look at 1st SW as transit only N-S connection and then 6th and probably 9th. Or maybe its 6th and 10th/11th And of...

Press conference from Gondek (and other councillors?) on Green Line: https://calgary.ctvnews.ca/video?clipId=375756

This goes back to my concern that elevated was never given a serious second look, even in the midst of absurd truncation. I get that the city is in a weird place here on messaging, but it doesn't sit right for them to say "there are too many unanswered questions". If they didn't already have the...

This doesn't clear CPKC by enough and would mean going through like seven +15s. Easier to just go over (but ideally through the one +30)

Obligatory the UCP are monstrous idiots. But the city undercuts its claims of having done rigorous study and decision making in selecting the tunnel by now suggesting they have no idea how elevated will actually work. Did they ever give it a fair shake, or not? A while ago I dug into the '5...

Random question: who "owns" a +15? The answer seems to be the City of Calgary (here is the policy document) , but I'm sure some of you folks have interesting insights into how this could all play out. My sense from a very quick skim of this document is that the city should have authority to do...

Yup, ultimately it's not that big of a deal, but it eliminated some creative options as these costs erupted. I wish they pivoted to doing the 8 Ave subway for red line, and ran the SE as HF trains down 7th (after interlining with red line under the CPKC tracks). Timing would have even lined up...

Obviously it's much better than 47' above the ground!

It'll be at +45 level, so above all of the walkways. But I hope it will drop to +30 level north of 9th ave so the station replaces the +30 between Core and Scotia Centre. Either way, I think that's the only walkway that should be significantly affected

Great point. I haven't thought too much about north of the Bow - my bias is wanting to avoid unnecessary (and expensive) impacts through PIP/river, but just shooting through elevated the whole time would probably be the best way to mitigate it with this alignment. Of course we'd also lose out...

Trudeau's Dad is still a boogeyman here, so I think we've got at least another 5 decades of hearing about Trudeau Jr.

I'm hopeful that this keeps options open to get to grade just north of 4th and run straight up Centre, but unlikely since they've insisted on the N-S street with the most +15s