Go Elevated or try for Underground?

  • Work with the province and go with the Elevated option

    Votes: 42 79.2%

  • Try another approach and go for Underground option

    Votes: 7 13.2%

  • Cancel it altogether

    Votes: 1 1.9%

  • Go with a BRT solution

    Votes: 3 5.7%
  • Total voters
    53
Well, you have that, and everything else, it is just knock on effects. Drawing where the line should be without consideration. Pricing things out as designed, instead of having the authority to modify the plan. Putting it not in the median (according to policy since at least 2006) when the city has been protecting the median (presumably by also not putting utilities under it, and instead putting them under the roads). Would the costs be appreciably different in the median, or on the west side of the road instead of the east? Who knows.

What we do know is the north section's costs have rising appreciably, above where they should be for build rail in a corridor without utilities issues. Beyond the sheer scale issues and needing a second maintenance centre, it is the only explanation, unless they've found totally awful ground conditions.
 
I think this is something related to the Green Line if I'm not mistaken.
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Will the Greenline still be on 10th Ave at that location? I thought it was shifting down to 12th Ave by then.
 
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I just found out that Ric McIver is the new cabinet minister for Trans & Infrastructure. I seem to recall him being a proponent of the Green Line when he was on council. But the he was in cabinet for the SWRR. Does this appointment bode well for getting additional Green Line funding? Or am I reading too much into it
 
Social Justice said:
I think it'd be political suicide for the UCP to pull funding for the Green line at this point.
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After the last election it has become abundantly clear that Calgary is the swing constituency in Alberta. 13 of 20 cabinet ministers are from Calgary. The most likely outcome is the UCP follows the same funding approach as the NDP on the Green Line. If there is a change I think we are more likely to see further commitments rather than cutbacks to Green Line funding over the next 4 years, especially in the 2022 pre-election announcements.
 
The ucp committed to the entire ndp capital plan. In a few years funding from future years will be available. The ucp could also just sign an agreement with the city to add let’s say 10 years of funding at the same level to the current commitment, to supply more money now/in 2022 when non tunnel or bridge parts of the project will need to start going to be done by 2026.
 
Kind of falls in with the Green Line

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Airport Transit Study - Green Line to Blue Line Connector

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We are hosting two open houses to share the project recommendations for a technology, alignment and station locations for the Airport Transit Connection. These open houses will give you an opportunity to learn about the study recommendations, share your feedback and speak with the project team.
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