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Go Elevated or try for Underground?

  • Work with the province and go with the Elevated option

    Votes: 54 74.0%

  • Try another approach and go for Underground option

    Votes: 16 21.9%

  • Cancel it altogether

    Votes: 1 1.4%

  • Go with a BRT solution

    Votes: 2 2.7%
  • Total voters
    73
According to LRT on the Green Twitter account, the city of Calgary is now proposing extending the tunnelled portion of the Green Line all the way from 24 Avenue North along Centre Street, to just before Inglewood Station inside the neighbourhood of Ramsay. This extension of the tunnel will bring the tunnelled portion of the line to around 1 km longer than previously proposed and will add 2 (Centre Street South and 4th Street SE) stations to the currently approved 4 subway stations. Under this proposal, the subway will go under both of Calgary's major rivers, the Bow and Elbow. The tunnelled portion will be approximately 5.5 kilometres long with 6 stations if this newest proposed routing is approved. Ultimately, Calgary now has nearly 10 kilometres of subway proposed with 9 to 10 stations, with 5.5 km and 6 stations for the Green Line, and 4 km and 3 - 4 stations for the Red Line.

https://twitter.com/LRTontheGreen
 
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Carbon tax green infrastructure money for things like transit in today's budget:
 

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AJX said:
Thanks Darwink. Any idea how much of that would go to the green line?
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I believe the federal contribution was envisioned over a 20 year period, so probably a match to that plus a top up to match the Calgary property tax downpayment from the construction years. Makes sense to do so to try to make it harder and harder for groups that want to cut either the carbon tax, or spending in general.
 
darwink said:
I believe the federal contribution was envisioned over a 20 year period, so probably a match to that plus a top up to match the Calgary property tax downpayment from the construction years. Makes sense to do so to try to make it harder and harder for groups that want to cut either the carbon tax, or spending in general.
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Match those funds out of the 4 years shown? I totally fine with them going that route. right now it's hard to justify spending, so doing it through the carbon tax makes sense.
 
Not out of the four years shown, well for the federal match. Well, depending on how delivery is it might be different cash flow vs. accrual accounting.

These things get nailed down far after the politicians make the announcement, but extending payments to include pre-delivery is a good way to increase support without causing cash flow problems, especially as it would get some money out the door. The province for that reason might even prepay some of its match to get money out the door, since the goal is to get carbon tax money out the door.
 
That's what seems to be the plan. That's only North of 16th Ave though as it will be underground until then.
 
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