[David A]

Looking at the above photo I think the solution I'd prefer to see is to decommission the sidewalks on either side. Then level out the land where the sidewalks were so that the sidewalk routes above along the top side of the bridge. This would improve safety in the area and would encourage more pedestrian north-south movement. Vehicular traffic can maintain under the bridge.

This would actually be a very good solution to improve safety for pedestrians. Taking out the underpass will not fix the bottleneck for vehicles as the area north on 97 Street where older buildings are closer to the road is also part of it. The bottleneck is from 107 Ave to 104th.

 

[AJo]

To my mind the only legitimate reason to remove the underpass and widen the 97th street corridor is if we are installing a streetcar the length of 97th.
Running from either the Quarters or Churchilll square all the way North to Eaux Claire it would greatly expand transit options and 10X the throughput of the corridor

 

[Out of Towner]

It's hard to imagine a developer building at that location without wanting frontage or access onto 97 Street. It's much better to have a building with storefront windows fronting onto 97th rather than a blanc sterile wall that's above grade and isolated from the street.

 

[David A]

It's hard to imagine a developer building at that location without wanting frontage or access onto 97 Street. It's much better to have a building with storefront windows fronting onto 97th rather than a blanc sterile wall that's above grade and isolated from the street.

Maybe we should focus our efforts on filling all the empty storefronts here and elsewhere downtown before coming up with grand ideas for more commercial space that may just sit empty for years.

 

[IanO]

 

[fromyeg]

She gone.

(Unrelated, but went to Van Loc today for the first time since ownership changed a few years ago. Still great. Would recommend. )

 

[Pro.N]

Shot from today, with Mary Burlie Park renewal.

 

[kcantor]

^
Out of curiosity, are you shooting through the glazing or from EPCOR Tower’s exterior deck?

 

[Pro.N]

^
Out of curiosity, are you shooting through the glazing or from EPCOR Tower’s exterior deck?

Exterior deck

 

[kcantor]

Exterior deck

Always happy to see them being used!

 

[barhonda]

Is there a plan to get rid of the 97st train overpass and bring everything to grade? Seems like this would be the appropriate time to do it.

 

[buildings]

wonder why they're excavating the northern part of the park? soil remediation or something else?

 

[husky]

Is there a plan to get rid of the 97st train overpass and bring everything to grade? Seems like this would be the appropriate time to do it.

There are currently no plans to get rid of it.

 

[archited]

In the effort to repeat myself... they should sell it to Qualico so that they can put up twin residential/mixed use towers here with a direct station connection to 97th Street LRT ghost station.

 

[Out of Towner]

Is there a plan to get rid of the 97st train overpass and bring everything to grade? Seems like this would be the appropriate time to do it.

I think you would be surprised at how much support there is for keeping the 97th street overpass as is. A couple or three months ago I said the same thing on here that you just did and they brought out their pitch forks.