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Not a great angle (I was being lazy), but better than nothing.

Douglas Place apartments, across the street from the future Douglas Glen green line station.

First floor is started on one building. Should rise up pretty quick now I suspect.

I get that construction needs to happen, but that sidewalk has been closed for at least 5 years now. It's time lol

https://www.calgary.ca/green-line/construction/current-construction/construction-article-engine/geotechnical-drilling-for-the-southeast-section-of-green-line.html

Tall now!

https://www.calgary.ca/green-line/about/project-history.html

Especially when we struggle to build mass transit (e.g. Green Line)

That's the crux of this whole line in a nutshell. The business case (for the SE line, ignore the N line which probably makes more sense) exists from the central business district to the burbs in the SE. The most expensive and tricky part is around the CBD, which has hamstrung this project for...

This is actually the most insane thing to me, building a train into the 2030s that's going to have drivers when autonomous driving is getting so close (or exists in limited capacities in US cities, anyways)

The problems are less technical for elevated specifically on this project now and I'm not even sure how you quantify it, but certainly nothing we'd figure out on a web forum. What if CP doesn't play ball? What if landowners sue and win? Does a new RFP need to be issued and all the politics of...

Isn't that a sunk cost fallacy? The city is likely going to say they can't make a prudent financial decision by March, because the report they were given doesn't have enough of a reliable cost estimate that can be trusted and cost overruns are solely burdening the government with the least means...

There's been pretty steady movement around this parcel the last few months, concrete crane on site today but not sure what they're using it for.

What if we integrated green line into the +15 network? Isn't that more akin to what you see in places like Asia where you go seamlessly from transit to businesses? Then you get businesses operating past 5pm due to normalized foot traffic. Although admittedly, one station probably isn't enough to...

And who pays for the cost of rebuilding seven +15s? Not to mention the practicality that you can't just shift them up a floor as they're designed around the buildings themselves, staircases may not fit, accessibility concerns, etc. I'm all for a street level public realm, but not at the expense...

An opinion piece, no less. Ridiculous lol

It's basically an abandoned parking lot right now, so this is still a huge improvement to the area in my mind. This is one area of the city that can support mixed use pretty well without the NIMBY pushback.

https://www.calgary.ca/green-line/green-line-news/article-engine/what-we-shared-at-the-design-information-sessions.html

Its a pretty good strategy. I'm less annoyed by the thought of elevated than I was previously, although it better be a decent bargain and not just slightly cheaper after all this bull.

There's not really much point in speculating further in my mind (since it's been beaten to death at this point and we'll find out more in a few months hopefully), but it really seems like the province wants to ignore the learnings from previous transit projects and just dump people downtown onto...