Best direction for the Green line at this point?

  • Go ahead with the current option of Eau Claire to Lynbrook and phase in extensions.

    Votes: 41 61.2%
  • Re-design the whole system

    Votes: 21 31.3%
  • Cancel it altogether

    Votes: 5 7.5%

  • Total voters
    67
The tweet I saw says $1.2B spending on Calgary but split over a number of areas and for the Green Line primarily just for land acquisition.
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The tweet I saw says $1.2B spending on Calgary but split over a number of areas and for the Green Line primarily just for land acquisition.
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Well they have now identified that the site for the North Calgary/Airdrie hospital won’t be equidistant between the two communities, but indeed in North Calgary so might as well stop saying it’s an Airdrie hospital. I wonder if it’s on that large site north of Stoney Trail off of Centre Street identified in the Livingston NSP? Would make sense given the Green Line is right there.

Edit: whoops a little bit off topic, sorry!
 
Well they have now identified that the site for the North Calgary/Airdrie hospital won’t be equidistant between the two communities, but indeed in North Calgary so might as well stop saying it’s an Airdrie hospital. I wonder if it’s on that large site north of Stoney Trail off of Centre Street identified in the Livingston NSP? Would make sense given the Green Line is right there.
Yeah, most likely that piece of land in Livingston, that was what Brookfield reserved it for. It isn't too far from Airdrie, 15-20 minutes by car and probably less with the improvements they want to make to Airdrie-Calgary road connections.
 
Yeah, most likely that piece of land in Livingston, that was what Brookfield reserved it for. It isn't too far from Airdrie, 15-20 minutes by car and probably less with the improvements they want to make to Airdrie-Calgary road connections.
Probably will be closer/faster for Airdrie residents than is the PLH.
 
Well they have now identified that the site for the North Calgary/Airdrie hospital won’t be equidistant between the two communities, but indeed in North Calgary so might as well stop saying it’s an Airdrie hospital. I wonder if it’s on that large site north of Stoney Trail off of Centre Street identified in the Livingston NSP? Would make sense given the Green Line is right there.
Here is the map including the institutional site where the hospital would likely be:
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It'll be cool when this is done but let's not kid ourselves here - Greenline to 160 Avenue is many decades away. Further, any north hospital here is repeating the mistakes of the South Health Centre - it's facility sprawl.

Even moving the health centre a few kilometres further south (e.g. towards 96 Avenue N for example) it would likely connect transit to the hospital a decade or more sooner, as well as integrate into the overall airport connection, other regional rail investments that are possible over that timeframe, still decades away.

Don't repeat the South Health Campus. It's so far away it's likely 1 or 2 further phases from the existing planned Greenline, which itself is only planned to reach Shepard in 2028 - 2030. The South Health Campus will be 20 - 30 years old by the time the LRT reaches it. While part of the issues is that LRT build timelines are painfully slow, the bigger problem is that we are making the destinations the LRT is hoping to serve about as spread out and far apart as possible. Any new major facility as important as a hospital should have as a prerequisite a site accessible by high-quality transit today, not 30-50 years from now.
 
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96 Ave also has better crosstown transit opportunities to other destinations like the commercial area around Harvest Hills T&T
That commercial area, Aurora Business Park, is really the only area with the available space. But the City of Calgary has lofty mixed development plans for it and hasn't been keen on giving up its land there for other purposes, it didn't consider it for the maintenance yard for the Green Line for example.
 
That commercial area, Aurora Business Park, is really the only area with the available space. But the City of Calgary has lofty mixed development plans for it and hasn't been keen on giving up its land there for other purposes, it didn't consider it for the maintenance yard for the Green Line for example.
Yet, except for the small retail/office area immediately adjacent to 96 Ave, the rest of the land remains undeveloped with no imminent construction.
 

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