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Created these for the submission to Designs Talks Movement Call for Ideas with the help of hollahollaholla. Interested in comments and feedback.

A slight redesign of the existing station facility at the base of the Calgary Tower, creating a 3-line freight by-pass in one zone and a 2 line island platform in the other. Using low-floor platforms and low-floor CFR compliant trains would allow intermixing of freight and passenger service...

Airdrie operates approximately 13 buses on 5 routes, according to the Airdrie Transportation Master Plan, at a population of 65,000 Airdrie Transit should be operating 40 buses with 2 Park & Ride lots. The population of Airdrie in the 2018 census was 68,091. The ICE buses crawl along in the...

The FRA has finally updated 49 CFR parts 229, 231, 236, and 238. Effectively they have created a new Tier 3 for high speed trains, also they have finally acknowledged that Crash Energy Management and Crash Prevention Measures are better than building high-velocity bank vaults. Under the new...

http://www.calgary.ca/Transportation/TP/Documents/Planning/Forecasting/forecasting-toolbox-2016-update/Transit-Assumptions/PnR-capacity-2076.pdf Commuter rail is in the City of Calgary plan, just not until 2076.

Do we want to spend $17 billion creating 8 lanes on Highways 1 & 2 between Airdrie, Okotoks, Calgary and Banff, or $3 billion on enhancements to the existing railroads in order to enable an efficient and environmentally friendly passenger rail network? Studies show that rail service attracts...

Just looking at the piers, they have 38 costing about $79,000 each, these things are 9.5m high and are required to support 345 tons! The best statement in the Preliminary Basis of Design is, "Foundations are considered with good soil, with no piles." Running my own numbers just for the piers, I...

Hyperloop/Transpod will work, but will it cost CAD 6 billion? In layman's terms what is Hyperloop/Transpod? It is an object travelling at high speed in a vacuum. Why a vacuum? A vacuum has little to no air, air creates resistance (aerodynamic drag), if there is no air there is no drag and...

During the course of my research on this I have come across a wealth of information. For ridership v's car, buses will take less than 5% (generally 2-3%), trains will take more than 10% (theory 11%), varies dramatically depending upon cost, speed, distance, and viability of alternatives. I also...

The Northstar Line is 64km from Big Lake to Minneapolis using the existing BNSF Right of Way. Total cost for the project was US$317 million (2008) for track construction including the extension of the METRO Blue Line to Target Field station, and money to BNSF for a perpetual easement for track...

Brightline (Florida) began public operations on Saturday 13 January 2018, starting with commercial services between West Palm Beach and Fort Lauderdale, and extending services to Miami in a couple of months. How long until we get passenger rail services in Alberta?

The Calgary Metropolitan Region Board will be officially established in January 2018, when the new regulation comes into effect. The Mandate of the board includes the coordination of regional infrastructure investment, they are required to prepare and present a Growth Plan within 3 years...

http://amppe.org/2016/03/15/bow-valley-assessing-feasibility-of-rail-transit/ Back in 2016 the Town of Banff initiated a feasibility study to see if rail could be a viable transit option from Calgary to the Bow Valley. I wonder what the results are.

Airdrie has 2 ICE routes into downtown Calgary and another that feeds to the C-Train at Rundle station. Okotoks, and surrounding towns, have On-It that feeds to the C-Train at Somerset/Bridlewood. First Canada and Southland Transportation also operate commuter bus services from Airdrie, Okotoks...

Depends on the extent of the system, there are some routes where even now the benefit does outweigh the cost, there are others that don't meet the criteria. I have posted this elsewhere: "GO Transit was started in 1967 with the Lakeshore East and Lakeshore West lines, in 1974 the Georgetown line...

Can you email me through my website. https://www.albertaregionalrail.com/ I would be interested in knowing who you have been talking to and what their exact response was, if you are willing to help I am open to advice, ideas, and anything you are willing to offer. Regional Rail will happen, it...

This is how I would see the routing of the gondolas. Black - car parking Yellow - ARR station Blue - Norquay gondola Red - Cave&Basin and Hot Springs&Sulphur Mountain gondola https://www.albertaregionalrail.com/

The Banff Long Term Transportation Study shows that 93% of Banff's annual 3.8 million visitors arrive in a personal vehicle, traffic congestion is an issue with approximately 1,000 parking stalls required in the short term. Banff has a reputation for being one of Canada's national treasures...

Bow Valley Passenger Rail presentation https://www.albertaregionalrail.com/