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Go Elevated or try for Underground?

  • Work with the province and go with the Elevated option

    Votes: 39 81.3%

  • Try another approach and go for Underground option

    Votes: 6 12.5%

  • Cancel it altogether

    Votes: 1 2.1%

  • Go with a BRT solution

    Votes: 2 4.2%
  • Total voters
    48
darwink said:
Gondek didn't really help along the way though - at one point she even suggested reverting the entire project back to BRT, which I am sure helped greatly to build provincial confidence. This project has barely moved over the life of this council - the only positive steps seem to be when they finally adopted best practices and took control out of council's hands and into an appointed board, something that should have happened much longer ago.
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Didn't she also suggest have the north part of the green Line go through Nose Creek valley instead? Or am I thinking of someone else?
 
Beltline_B said:
Didn't she also suggest have the north part of the green Line go through Nose Creek valley instead? Or am I thinking of someone else?
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I don't know how hard she pushed for the Nose Creek option, but it was somethign she was considering.

From a tweet a couple of years ago.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1150098849442041856
4/ #greenlineyyc alignment east of Centre Street still allows for the right-of-ways along Harvest Hills Blvd to be used for LRT, from 144th to 96th. Moving east at that point allows for a future airport connector option & stations as the line heads south parallel to Deerfoot.
 
The City of Calgary has announced that PCL Construction will lead the downtown utilities relocation work for Green Line with construction to begin this fall. I believe this is almost $200 million in work that is seen as being an important factor in lowering project risk for the main construction contract.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1397237546594209796
 
darwink said:
Big green line days today and tomorrow.
Today:

Tomorrow:
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Are there maps with this level of detail (or more) for other parts of the line, specifically in Ogden? I'm thinking diagrams that show sidewalks, tracks, ramps, etc.

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JoeUrban said:
Are there maps with this level of detail (or more) for other parts of the line, specifically in Ogden? I'm thinking diagrams that show sidewalks, tracks, ramps, etc.
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Check the Green Line presentation for the Transportation and Transit Committee meeting from June 2017, specifically attachments #1 and #3.

SPC on Transportation and Transit - June 21, 2017

pub-calgary.escribemeetings.com pub-calgary.escribemeetings.com

They are big and CPU intensive files though, especially attachment #3 which contains drawings for the entire line. I suspect there are many changes for the DT and North after three years but the SE line doesn't sound like it should be very different. Here's the 2017 plan for the area around the Ogden section:

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The Green Line Board approved the new Stage 1 business case on Friday afternoon. Next step now is for approval at the provincial level and then finally at the federal level before procurement can resume. Hopefully the province doesn't drag their feet on this.
 
GoVertical said:
livewirecalgary.com

Calgary's Green Line to go ahead with a two-phased construction process - LiveWire Calgary

Calgary’s Green Line project will inch ahead in a two-phased strategy, following the conclusion of a provincial review, the city has said. According to the city, the $5.5 billion project will now be done through a revised procurement process. The first phase will be built from Shepard to Eau...
livewirecalgary.com livewirecalgary.com
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I assume the city's previous approach was designed to ensure that Ramsay to Shepard gets built for sure, and then if/when costs go up on the downtown portion, they can come back to the Province and the Feds and ask for more money to finish the line.

The Province is basically saying, we are not going to play that game, and if there isn't credible engineering and procurement work on the downtown section, you can't start building the line in the suburbs.

I suppose the Honolulu experience indicates how the City's proposed model of building from the maintenance yard to the edge of downtown can be pretty painful.

One side effect of this choice seems to be that it will take a while to finish the engineering and procurement work downtown, so nothing is going to be built until just after the 2023 election, which seems to have been the UCP preference all along.
 
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