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Whatever happened to plans for an interchange at Heritage and Macleod? It would have fixed the awkward Horton Road connection but potentially impose a pedestrian barrier to getting across Heritage as the interchange would need to transition the grade west of crossing over the LRT and CP tracks.
Plan was completed in April 2010, still awaits capital funding:
 

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Unfortunately TODs weren't on the mind of planners when they first built the LRT lines. Most were run in ways that were the most economical - down the middle of Crowchild or Memorial, or along the CP tracks. In many cases the success of the TOD is limited from the get go, but still doable.. You can still get density around the stations, and that's a win. The best TOD model would be one like Sunnyside, but not many opportunities for ones like that..

The whole area could be a good candidate for TOD if they were to come up with a master plan, and maybe do some better alignments. The east side of the station will never be 'great' due to the CP tracks cutting off any grade crossing, and Macleod killing any other vibrancy on the other side. .....but the west side could potentially be something good with some forethought. It would be nice to see a master plan for pedestrian\cycle access from Heritage station through to Chinook.
 
Took a look at the updated rendering. Not much has changed, only the color scheme, with the burgundy being replaced with gray. The towers three main materials are white, grayish blue, and gray. Metal paneling.
Also, sounds like the rendering shown isn't the final rendering, so maybe we'll luck out and there will be an upgrade.
 

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Coming to downtown Edmonton in 2010!


Oh... wait. ?
 

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