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It's a bit odd they only seem to be vertically building a portion of the apartment piece, isn't it? Pretty sure the designs showing the apartment building being much wider and covering more of the site than what is currently appearing in the photos?

They really did a nice job with the Vic Park station. It changes the whole vibe of that intersection. Get a few new mixed used buildings at the east end of 17th and it will naturally start drawing people off the train and into the heart of 17th Ave

Disappointed we lost the sports courts at the southeast plaza. I thought those were supposed to be part of the community amenities. Now we just get grass instead by the looks of it. Also, agreed that the flat roof profile takes away from the design. The bait and switches begin....

Let's also not forget there are already 3 high rise apartment towers that are 1 minute down the road to the west and they sit on higher ground than Glenmore Landing. So not sure why people can argue high rises shouldn't go here

With Bhatti's departure and the end to the Green Line Board, the project governance is back to where it was in 2020 when the Jim Gray group first arrived on the scene demanding governance that was independent of council. So we are now full circle...

This is from the DP application. The red dashed line shows the building envelope on top of the existing Olympic Plaza design. This building really is going to take away a giant chunk of the park, definitely more than I was expecting. It makes me very curious to see what the Olympic Plaza design...

The BIA and Green Line advocates are trying to get the City to ditch the Centre St lane reversals and bring in rush hour bus only lanes. Sounds like the idea will at least be studied but studies seems to be where Council tries to look like they're making changes without actually making changes...

I believe Matco also owns the Inglewood Brewery lands which they have sat on for ages as well.

Sounds like some of the downtown stakeholders are getting a bit worried the UCP will hand them a Green Line plan that resembles something they've already tried to stop back when they had a seat at the engagement table and pushed for tunnels. Also the costing math Smith references reminds me of...

Had they also used brick for the dark gray and white portions it probably would have had a cool Chinatown vibe to it. This just looks underwhelming.

This page from the 2008 Downtown LRT study says the minimum turning radius for a low floor LRV can be less than 20 metres and if you think of the low floor LRVs used in tram and streetcar systems, they frequently conduct 90⁰ turns at roadway intersections. With that in mind, I'm sure a low-speed...

Some interesting tidbits from this Rick Bell piece. I laugh at the comment about "some people" suggesting City Hall because I'm fairly certain it was the premier or Dreeshen that suggested it. ...Dreeshen confirmed once the Green Line is at the Event Centre it may not come into the downtown and...

Vic Park LRT station rebuild and 17th Ave extension are officially complete. https://www.calgarymlc.ca/articles/17-avenue-se-victoria-park-stampede-station-completion

Interesting read and relevant to the Green Line discussions we have been having on here. https://thehub.ca/2024/10/03/eric-lombardi-canada-can-no-longer-afford-to-ignore-its-soft-corruption-problem/

AECOM designed Ottawa's LRT and Edmonton's Valley Line... two projects that were absolute disasters either prior to, or after, opening day. The fact the UCP is pinning all their hopes and dreams on them and dismissing the work done by all other firms should definitely be a concern for Calgarians

The reason that Council prioritized the tunnel over the project is because, in the ironies of all ironies, they were ordered to by the UCP government. The original procurement plan was to procure from East Village to Shepard and start building right away because that alignment was ready to go...

The next chapter in the saga begins. Can't see why the province would say no to this but I never thought the province would do what they did either... Letter from the Twitter pic that doesn't display in the embedded tweet:

Good clip on the reality of the situation Council was facing. These folks recommended a wind-down despite knowing it was going to cost them their jobs. With all the political rhetoric out there on this project, the Green Line project team showed some remarkable professional character and spoke...

I'll be even more generous than that and say the time to ask for reviews of the alignment were this spring when the Green Line team began meeting with the province to describe to them the direction this was all going. Better yet, maybe the province could have just opened their wallets a bit...