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Go Elevated or try for Underground?

  • Work with the province and go with the Elevated option

    Votes: 50 79.4%

  • Try another approach and go for Underground option

    Votes: 9 14.3%

  • Cancel it altogether

    Votes: 1 1.6%

  • Go with a BRT solution

    Votes: 3 4.8%
  • Total voters
    63
outoftheice said:
www.ctvnews.ca

Demolition of Eau Claire condos begins, despite Green Line project unknowns

The demolition of nearly two dozen condos in the Eau Claire area started Wednesday morning. The properties will be flattened and filled in by next month.
www.ctvnews.ca www.ctvnews.ca
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More surface parking coming to Eau Claire, great news for those who want to drive to folk fest... Also, is the city demo'ing these as part of a deal with the land owner or does the city own these parcels (condos and the mall) now?
 
Can anyone summarize the legal liability issue with Harvard? How big could the ultimate cost really be? Could the just city expropriate and move on (though I'm sure there are many downsides to this)? Or tinfoil hat: is the city worried about certain details that would come out in the discovery process?
 
That's a lot of handwringing for what is basically 300-400 metres of elevated track downtown (from the CPR tracks to just north of 7th Ave).

I think affecting the +15 system is an opportunity, not a problem. The 7 Ave station could potentially connect directly to the +15 network.

I do share their concerns about the lack of detailed design.
 
How many metres of elevated track is being proposed through the Beltline? And does this group of concerned business owners include Beltline businesses as well?
 
badc0ffee said:
That's a lot of handwringing for what is basically 300-400 metres of elevated track downtown (from the CPR tracks to just north of 7th Ave).

I think affecting the +15 system is an opportunity, not a problem. The 7 Ave station could potentially connect directly to the +15 network.

I do share their concerns about the lack of detailed design.
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If the design of the elevated portion is decent enough I think people will come around to it quickly.

Thanks to the long history of +15, elevated would be very on-brand for Calgary, far more so than a downtown tunnel.
 
If the owners of the towers think elevated is really quite bad for them, they are more than welcome to write a $1 billion cheque (or more realistically, create a special property tax district with their towers in it to finance a billion over 30 years) to have the thing underground instead.
 
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