Likely cheaper to elevate the train than to dig out 22,000+ cubic metres of dirt, plus you know, utility relocations! Including figuring out how you're going to continuously pump out ground water plus bringing the entire thing to modern storm resiliency standards.

The land at Westbrook had land economics problems. After the city recent city purchase, it will likely now be subdivided and the city will try to sell it for a cost recovery price, and the lots will fail to sell because the price is too high.

where is the ridership by station from?

A city hall hub is short sighted. Not protecting enough on centre st would also be a mistake. but if you're willing to insure the wrath of NIMBYs' 60 km/h works just fine on the design. I think elevated would also work just fine on Centre St. But people seem to care more about aesthetics...

The Premier as always has some interesting ideas. Policy wishes, as they were. Anyways, I think the Premier has even odds on not being Premier by the time the next budget roles around. Things are WAY worse internally in the party, and in the government, than is filtering out into the media.

Yes. The 302 continues west to 5th St SW (4 buses an hour peak). Max Purple to 1st St SW (3 buses an hour peak). Both are negligible contributors to LRT demand westbound in the core between city hall and 1st st SW. These are not difficult issues in comparison to forcing a huge number of...

Okay. Get ready for some math. We all love math right? HAHA This might be hard to follow on your phone due to tables. So this is old (2005 ish), for the 1.5 million population horizon. Lets accept it as true. It is: "Projected AM Peak Hour / Peak Direction LRT Ridership and Train Requirements...

I think the remediation for asbestos is done?

Yes. Would it slow down the service? Also yes. from: https://www.calgarytransit.com/content/dam/transit/about-calgary-transit/reports/lrt/downtown_final_report.pdf

We had the full floor plans of the last one, no?

I chatted with them a couple years ago. It is literally them 'giving back', using their skills and influence to bring together a project that should exist that doesn't because it is hard work that requires a long time to align all the different players. I also think once it is done, there will...

Edit: According to Waterous: Project development agreement next year, construction 2027, open 2029.

The below by my estimation includes the potential break fee for the LRV order, as committed cost did not jump a huge amount with the CAF order was signed. From June: Owner’s Costs: Include City of Calgary Staff Time, Communications, Software, and General Corporate Overheads and Inter-...

Is it $200 million + of utility though? You draw 600m walk sheds, and you only add a maybe 5 blocks of area (the green area) within 600m of a stop? I get that it feels like a big change. Which is why we draw to see if our feelings match what would be on the ground. It's like how a lot of...

The city in replacing the U2s, retired them faster than replacements arrived I believe, due to the office ridership slump, then the COVID slump. 4 car trains will be back. 4 car trains slightly reduced the trains per hour iirc, but of course raised the people per hour.

Not at the level of service Calgarians expect for the red line south.

Almost like the project was out of control for a long long time. It just didn't seem blatantly obvious since decisions were all in service of delivering the project as conceived between 2003 and 2006.

What an analysis like ^this^ lacked is a few more lines: estimated cost and $ per 'point'. With operating and maintenance estimates, you can combined cost into an npv. then you can use ridership estimates to get npv per incremental rider. Also, the financial section for some reason negatively...

The travel time savings listed here also aren't accurate anymore, due to road upgrades in the mean time, including the ogden road, Glenmore interchange, the twinning of 24th st SE between Glenmore and Douglas dale, connecting ogden road to 24th. The cost would also be off, due too everything.

I’d ballpark at 1/5th the cost - more if still trying to get a fixed price.