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Go Elevated or try for Underground?

  • Work with the province and go with the Elevated option

    Votes: 42 79.2%

  • Try another approach and go for Underground option

    Votes: 7 13.2%

  • Cancel it altogether

    Votes: 1 1.9%

  • Go with a BRT solution

    Votes: 3 5.7%
  • Total voters
    53
It's a word salad but reading between the lines, I see it as them saying they have recommended construction proceed with a scaled down version that will fit in the existing budget and that the scaled down version will still meet their mandate which they view as "a mandate from City Council to advance Phase 1 of the Green Line LRT Project, connecting the southeast to downtown and into the existing Red/Blue Lines". So doubtful we are getting Eau Claire to Shepard as has been proposed. What we get instead is anyone's guess until next week but it sounds like we are getting something built which to be honest, is a win. Once construction starts for real, more funding becomes a municipal and provincial election issue and I think Calgarians will reward politicians wanting to throw more money at Green Line which will help keep construction rolling beyond whatever gets approved next week.
 
Here's how I read it...

Green Line Board made recommendations to Executive Committee of Council on project design, delivery strategy, and capital funding. My guesses on those recommendations:

Project design - Something BIG is changing (fewer stations, smaller tunnel, single track to Shepard), I don't see them not going to Shepard but maybe they only build out the track and not the stations?
Delivery strategy - Maybe they've cut it up more, I mean by the time you'd be building out the stations to Shepard there's going to be another opportunity for funding so I could see them moving to additional phasing?
Capital funding - Feds and Province aren't giving more money now but can the city find more money to tie them over to the next funding opportunities?

The updates said the recommendations were based on value engineering, design optimization, and contractor negotiations. :
Value engineering - These should be barebones stations, if they can rewrite a bylaw for noise for the Event Centre, maybe rewrite your public art bylaw haha.
Design optimization - Going with the most optimum design is a no brainer. Nothing fancy on this line.
Contractor negotiations - I'm sure there was some real talk in these negotiations, these projects have become fairly risky for contractors.
 
So we have some info from the province via the city:
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And from the feds:
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So we have a major scope change coming.

Question is what that scope change looks like.
 
FFS this sounds like it will be another delay based on having to re-submit the new scope to the Federal and Provincial governments. I hope the descoping doesn't cut off the SE segment to Ogden. Shepard should be the bare minimum. Also WTF is the UCP talking about with their Grand central Station? Is it drawn on the back of a napkin or have they actually come up with a concrete proposal? Danielle Smith would be a nightmare client to deal with pushing last minute changes that completely change the scope of an agreed upon design. Hopefully the city just bites the bullet and moves forward with construction while the other levels of government work out their shit.
 
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