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I'm not paying attention enough these days. I missed the part where they decided to make 16th Ave above ground. I know it's costly to have it underground, but it seems like a recipe for disaster traffic-wise.The decision to go to an above ground station at 16th Avenue highlights just how little financial room they have left. All of the previous options had always had it underground.
A certain Mayoral candidate tried to make it an issue. But the press didn't care about issues this election.I'm not paying attention enough these days. I missed the part where they decided to make 16th Ave above ground. I know it's costly to have it underground, but it seems like a recipe for disaster traffic-wise.
On the other hand this might help kill 16th ave as a major thoroughfare through the city, and the city can look at trying to re-invent 16th ave into something nice.
The city will have enough money to do this sooner rather than later. Can go north to 64th and south to McKenzie within reasonably known grant amounts by 2030, 2032.The 16th Ave station can always be re-aligned underground whenever the north leg is extended. There's plenty of time for the line to be moved with future funding sources and we're talking about something that likely won't happen until the early 2030s
At today's Green Line Board meeting presentation, they presented a timeline of future work, with real construction not starting until 2024.
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Idk, little appreciated but theres actually a compatible model from Frankfurt - the origin of the Edmonton and Calgary stock referenced by RMTransit in one of his videos that combines two 25m cars into one, even longer than those for the Green Line - called the U5-50I crap on Calgary Transit often enough that I feel it's important to note when they do something right, and for my money, longer paired cars like this design are the best balance of flexibility and capacity rather than the existing 25m stock we've been using.
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Its the city's largest infrastructure project ever. I just assumed it would take courage to get the full stage 1 done. I predict Shepard to Ramsay will go ahead, there will be a delay on the tunnel portion to Eau Claire but it too will get done; using the cut and cover method. The herald put out an article not long ago with the gentleman running the project pretty much buttering us up for today's news. I saw some on council asking for third-party oversight, isn't that what got us to this point, administrative delay after administrative delay? I wonder what-if we just could've pressed ahead all those years ago. Everyone talks about a can-do Calgary attitude, I've personally never seen it and I've lived here since 1997. Maybe that mentality existing in the 70's and 80's and I think people attribute the '88 Olympics to that attitude but in my opinion that attitude hasn't been here for a long time. When Oil prices rose so did people's ambitions, or at least they use to. Now our property is valued because of its relatively low cost compared to other major markets. Wasn't that what was always going to bring people and business here? We're a major city without the major (relative) barrier to entry.Green Line full Stage 1 in peril as cost escalations could take bite out of budget - LiveWire Calgary
Green Line cost escalation due to market volatility could pose “a serious risk” to the $5.5 billion transit line, but mitigation measures are in place, said the project CEO. Calgary’s Executive Committee got a Green Line Q1 board update Tuesday and heard from both the Green Line board chair Don...
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