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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...

The people involved have probably become too committed to it. I'd expect if Green Line was estimated correctly at $8.5B+ for 40 km in 2015, they would have killed it then but after spending so much time and political capital on it, they just can't back away unless there's one last massive budget...

There's a bit of a cryptic statement regarding that: https://livewirecalgary.com/2021/06/02/green-line-to-go-ahead-with-a-two-phased-construction-process/

Richard White published the opinion, but it was written by Neil McKendrick who worked at Calgary Transit for many years in a number of key roles. McKendrick critiques the current Green Line on quantitative measures that have become worse and worse as the Green Line continues to go over-budget...

Check the Green Line presentation for the Transportation and Transit Committee meeting from June 2017, specifically attachments #1 and #3. https://pub-calgary.escribemeetings.com/Meeting.aspx?Id=cbf8472a-2b7f-420b-9ac7-e3a308214b1b&Agenda=PostMinutes&lang=English# They are big and CPU...

I think the Province in general over the years has supported transit projects pretty well. Even for the Green Line, the City's share of funding ($50M/year for capital, $24M/year for financing) came from education property tax room vacated by the Province. Along with the direct contribution to...

And I'm sure most councillors have transit projects in their wards that they would like to get funding for as well. But Gondek must be frustrated at the slow pace of Stage 1 and the RouteAhead team continuing to ignore the request to rank future stages of the Green Line.

You're correct. That section of Centre Street was always planned to be one lane each way. This is what they're envisioning for it: It makes sense when LRT has been built to a useful terminus and replaced many dozen buses per hour as well as car traffic. But I hate to see how it works when the...

For the part from 16th Avenue North to the original terminus in Panorama Hills. I used the $200M/km figure based on two primary sources. The May 2017 meeting when the details of Stage 1 was presented, a question was asked about costs for extensions to 96th Avenue and North Pointe. Additional...

Agreed, there's been a lot of focus on the downtown problems, but the NC section has also seen a major escalation in costs. Out of personal curiosity, I read the reports that informed the selection of Centre Street for the NC alignment and they were estimating $50M/km for an at-grade line...

The big report from December 2015 does suggest strongly that the Green Line was to be done in single stage. Note that even if the full funding wasn't available, the "core" of the Green Line was Beddington-Shepard. Nobody had considered something as short as the eventual Stage 1 because 16th Ave...

It might be politicized as of late, but ultimately the Green Line's problems comes from it going over-budget so much and predate the UCP government. If the Green Line was anywhere close to the original 40 km plan (even Beddington-Shepard) and where construction had already started by 2020 or...

No change compared to previous budget: