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Looks like Phase 3 might not be too far off, a 12 storey building is shown in the DTR1 for the main towers

Good news everyone, the DP has been reapplied for and is now in circulation: DMAP

I would rather the city save money and build a cheaper active modes underpass, and the park thing can be up for debate. There's no need to spend nearly $100M on a connection cars don't even use that often relative to other roads. From 1996 to 2019 Calgary gained 500k population but vehicle count...

I doubt it, they wouldn't have gone so far as to plan an entire building and submit a DP for it if they were trying to do that

Also keep in mind that AECOM has only done the basic elevated report and their own internal design for Grand Central (Prairie Link). It could very well go to any other firm especially considering the province went with CPCS for the Passenger Rail Master Plan.

Yes it's still BTC, at least for the suburban segment

Theres also a secondary alignment where 50th dodges around and crosses on a new bridge while Deerfoot stays as is. That first option would be great for smoothing out those racetrack curves

I believe so yes. IIRC crosses the river in the Deerfoot master plan but no connection to deerfoot itself

Tbf there's still a roundabout and intersections between the couplet and the freeway

CABRs latest releases have asked the province to save 3 trains per hour on their airport line for their Banff through running trains, but yes in things like the Bow Valley rail study have frequencies around that range Of course, CABR doesn't have much to do with how often the province thinks...

I have a feeling the province wants to be much more ambitious with service levels, and I hope they are. CABR people although unrelated were touting 20 minute headways to Banff!! Based on the messaging I get the feeling the intention is not just to run a barebones service but build something...

60 years is based on population growth and demand, it wouldn't physically take 60 years to construct the same way it didn't take 40 years of construction to build the CTrain to its current extent

The idea is to start with the end in mind and distill the long term vision to a 15-year delivery plan. If they see big success alongside continuing population growth there's no reason they can't accelerate the buildout. If anything, the fact that the province is drawing lines to cities with...

Dang... it really sucks that Alberta isn't matching the ambition and construction capacity of a country with 50x the GDP and 300x the population... 😢

New 60 year network:

They have the same U2 model as Calgary. In fact, a good number of them are older than ours since their system opened 3 years before the CTrain

Small floorplate, no parkade I'll take 10,000 please