May 6, 2016

Daily Durning: A Tunnel for Calgary

From NextCity:

Calgary

Global Rail News reports that engineers studying five possible options for routing the line through the Calgary city center have recommended the all-underground Option D as the best choice to take the Green Line from the Beltline across the Bow River and into downtown Calgary. Option D is expected to cost $1.3 billion, roughly $500 million more than the other four options.

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  1. Going underground in this area for the Green Line is totally worth it for Calgary where I live now.

    As someone who has used the TTC often when I lived and worked there for over 15 yrs. in Toronto and the Vancouver (who still had problems swinging their head around underground options), Calgary has its problems of surface car traffic gridlock because most of its LRT line right now into the downtown core is at ground level.

    One cannot install pedestrian/cyclist activated traffic lights in Calgary’s downtown core …as a result. Believe me, a lot of wasted time as a pedestrian and cyclist when crossing very wide, one-way 4 lane, traffic road intersections downtown during off-peak hrs…. the traffic light timing kowtows to cars and LRT trains running through.

    Calgary only gets car congestion for 4 hrs. hrs. maximum each work day in downtown. Morning and afternoon. This is what I observe. That’s all. It is incredibly pale to Toronto …

    Am a downtown resident for the past 5 yrs. who does not drive/not have a car.

  2. That totally makes sense. Seventh Ave is a dead street in Calgary due to lack of street life due to C train tracks, worse than Granville in Vancouver due to too many buses.

    Hence Broadway has to be a subway. Only once you’re in the suburbs does a surface LRT make sense, but not in expensive inner city cores.

    Subways are free due to increased land values, increased commercial properties abutting it and thus vastly increased property taxes, development levies and CACs. A true no-brainer !

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