Rating of the development

  • 1 Really Good

    Votes: 12 23.5%
  • 2 Not Bad

    Votes: 11 21.6%
  • 3 So So

    Votes: 16 31.4%
  • 4 Not Good

    Votes: 9 17.6%
  • 5 Terrible

    Votes: 3 5.9%

  • Total voters
    51
It was another element added to the project without accounting for cost. That being said, the cost would be minimal. But I doubt the bridge as conceptualized will be built, the entire north of Eau Claire porition has compromises in it that if revisited get reversed. That we nickle and dimed the section while adding $200 million of stations in the Beltline astounds me.
 
Just put separated bike lanes on the Centre St Bridge.
Whether the first part of the north segment is built now or later, it'll be a massive transport capacity increase that would negate much of the need for lanes on Centre Street Bridge (and all of Centre Street for that matter).

Would be a easy to descope the cycling and pedestrian portion of that bridge and make the change to Centre Street (no idea if that's a real money saver though, bridges are just really expensive).
 
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An interesting piece of info from the article:
Another iteration of Harvard's retail and condo plan will emerge to accommodate the LRT line, the company's Rosanne Hill Blaisdell told the Calgary Eyeopener.
So does the LRT station come first, then Harvard's development? If so, that pushes the whole Eau Claire redo out several years. That's too bad given the all the improvements on the pathway and west of Prince's Island. It is going to be one continuous construction site in that area ☹️
 
The Eau Claire redevelopment wasn’t going to be happening any time soon anyways so not much of a loss.
 
What would you people think if the city bought the north half of the Harvard's Eau Claire property adjacent to the Green Line station and built an aquatic centre and library there to replace the beltline and Inglewood aquatic centres?
Why does downtown need another library?

Why not operate... the ummmm ... aquatic centre that already exists.
 

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