CalgaryTiger
Senior Member
Thank to @whatchyyc I see the bus barn is meant to be closer to Macleod. Quite the city presence as it also includes City offices.
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darwink
Senior Member
You don't save money by mashing two unrelated facilities together, when both are large enough on their own to begin with.
As for why it has been planned to be mostly institutional uses, that slough does dry up occasionally. And when that happens they stink for a while, and create dust.
Here is 1995:
whatchyyc
Active Member
There's a reason Anderson was the first and last combo garage, and there are few (zero) sites massive enough that also happen to be along ctrain lines to host a bus garage in addition to an LRT MSF. The Shepard site is nearly 70 acres and they're using the entire space for LRT
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lemongrab
Active Member
Speak of the devil...I think we just got the google maps update in the last few days! West Ring Road is now current instead of just dirt (pretty sure it had been an image from '22 or '23 until very recently).
I think the google maps for this area in the south must be ~June 2024, as all the brown in your image is bright green and everything else is about the same (but that layer won't actually load on Google Earth). The city's historical map still has 2023 as the latest
Joborule
Active Member
Don't think you'll ever see the MAX Purple extend west of downtown. I'm under the impression that the West Bow BRT will be it's own separate line. Most likely due to MP possibly getting LRT conversion long down the road.
lemongrab
Active Member
I suspect the idea is probably about upgrading the 305 to MAX status at some point
It will be interesting to see what bus prioritization looks like for this route. Kensington Rd has already been put on a bit of a road diet, but they've smartly used temporary bollards/planters, which can be easily removed to make a bus only lane. They could do similar with Parkdale Blvd, but most of Bowness Rd is now too tight (though probably doesn't need a dedicated lane as badly)
Joborule
Active Member
Yeah, essentially that I'd figure. They might explore routing it a little bit different.
FYI, the map on the website is extremely outdated. Route 305 currently isn't in service.
FYI, the map on the website is extremely outdated. Route 305 currently isn't in service.
lemongrab
Active Member
Yup, System Map from 2023 is the latest thing you can get from the Calgary Transit site
It's really more about Route #1, which I believe still runs along with Max purple in the east
Red Star
Active Member
With all the new BRT improvements going on, I thought that I'd do a crayoning exercise. Instead of a Gondola, I'd like to see the MAX Teal extended North to Foothills Hospital, UofC and Brentwood station. A new bridge would have to be built over the Bow River.
Black circles are stations. Forgive the low-quality sketch.
Black circles are stations. Forgive the low-quality sketch.
Gazyyc
New Member
The Teal does seem to be the best option for that NW/SW link but I wouldn't want something cutting through the wooded area on the south side of the bow unless it was something truly integrated with the park/river scape but that would likely cost $$$.
I'd be between two choices on a terminal, do you go to Brentwood or up to Tuscany/Crowfoot.
Brentwood, cut down Bow and Crowchild to Memorial then do you follow your routing through the U of C or follow the Orange from Foothills up and around through UD.
Tuscany/Crowfoot, supplement or replace the 29 hitting Trinity Hills, Bowness (route 1 link)but then do you go up Nosehill to Crowfoot for the 'central' NW station or through Tuscany for links out to Sage Hill, Evanston etc.
For the initial phase of the Teal, Westbrook made sense but now it's somewhat established, it could be used as a base for a solid N/S link on the Westside.
Urban_Views
New Member
In this scenario, where there's a new transit bridge, you would also be able to integrate a new pedestrian connection across the river. After a bike ride on Sunday, you really do have to commit when doing a loop along the river between Crowchild and the Harry Boothman bridge at Angles Cafe.
Transit Apologist
New Member
Brentwood is a much busier destination, because of the university ridership (already proven by route 9). If the Teal were extended north you could shorten the 9 to end at Westbrook, because local service north of the river is already covered by routes 90 and 104. Moving NW routing from the 9 to the Teal would actually be a good thing IMO, because right now the Teal tends to play second-fiddle to the 9 when really it should be the other way around.
pdubs015
New Member
whatchyyc
Active Member
They have the same U2 model as Calgary. In fact, a good number of them are older than ours since their system opened 3 years before the CTrain
darwink
Senior Member
Edmonton's went through a deep rebuild in the 2000s at Bombardier. They look like U2s, but I don't know how much commonality they have anymore.