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Best direction for the Green line at this point?

  • Go ahead with the current option of Eau Claire to Lynbrook and phase in extensions.

    Votes: 41 60.3%

  • Re-design the whole system

    Votes: 22 32.4%

  • Cancel it altogether

    Votes: 5 7.4%
  • Total voters
    68
The PTN standard is just a high all-day frequency, centre street carries an obscene amount of buses as the 301 and 3 alone operate at 5 minute headways during peak hours

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whatchyyc said:
The PTN standard is just a high all-day frequency, centre street carries an obscene amount of buses as the 301 and 3 alone operate at 5 minute headways during peak hours

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Where's this graphic from? It would be super interesting to see the "bus per day" on all road segments citywide. Calgary Transit really makes it difficult to get a citywide picture of frequencies and service quality differences between routes as a network. I'd take a guess Centre Street sees about 3 - 5x the bus traffic as the next busiest non-downtown corridor? It's a wildly different corridor than most others.
 
CBBarnett said:
Where's this graphic from? It would be super interesting to see the "bus per day" on all road segments citywide. Calgary Transit really makes it difficult to get a citywide picture of frequencies and service quality differences between routes as a network. I'd take a guess Centre Street sees about 3 - 5x the bus traffic as the next busiest non-downtown corridor? It's a wildly different corridor than most others.
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This presentation: https://pub-calgary.escribemeetings.com/filestream.ashx?DocumentId=163194
and the graphic itself here: https://pub-calgary.escribemeetings.com/filestream.ashx?DocumentId=133236
 
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I would love to see a close to 1:1 copy of the Montgomery Bowness Road project. The area right in front of the station has potential, especially with the triangle lot that could have a cool flatiron style building. I hope when the time comes the city has a good vision of what to do with that area to make it nice to walk around.

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Just wondering, but why was a tunnel chosen for the downtown corridor , and not an elevated track? The costs have ballooned because of it, and if they chose elevated track, then a lot more of the Green Line would have been able to built in phase 1.
 
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Just wondering, but why was a tunnel chosen for the downtown corridor , and not an elevated track? The costs have ballooned because of it, and if they chose elevated track, then a lot more of the Green Line would have been able to built in phase 1.
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The option was dismissed entirely after the owners of towers downtown raised concerns. There are difficulties of course with elevated, the primary being the height needed to cross over the CPR (14 meters over top of rail is what the crossing at Sunalta is)
 
Hey everyone first time poster,

We are all awaiting for the June Green Line Budget Update.

I know cutting Eau Claire makes financial sense.

But is the City forced to play their hand because of the scheduled demolition?

Realistically the southeast will get extended to its real ridership bases before we see the North Central start.

I personally think the North Central line should be underground until 64th and allow for rezoning along the corridor to create our own high density north south corridor.
 
Is cutting Eau Claire Station even a possibility in this update? I haven’t heard that talked about anywhere at any point in this process. I would support it if it meant the first phase was extended clear through to Seton.

Agreed regarding the NC line.
 
I think they'll just cut the river crossing, that should free up enough money to get past McKenzie Towne (and be enough controversy for the time being). I don't think the Eau Claire station will be touched unless the tunneling costs goes disastrously over-budget.

Though the longer the NC section gets pushed back, the more likely I think it'll get cancelled altogether rather than get the significant funding increases needed to tunnel all the way to 64th. They already couldn't afford to tunnel to 16th.
 
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accord1999 said:
Though the longer the NC section gets pushed back, the more likely I think it'll get cancelled altogether rather than get the significant funding increases needed to tunnel all the way to 64th. They already couldn't afford to tunnel to 16th.
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So, right back to where our long term LRT plans were prior to Naheed Nenshi being elected, just took over a decade and a billion dollars to get there.
 
You're right that the North Central leg of the Green Line is on ice for decade(s). Although, with a Nenshi government in Edmonton the situation could change quickly.
If it is not happening, then they should make Centre street high quality, segregated BRT right away. And make the bridge an exclusive BRT transit way.
 
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