lemongrab
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What's the deal with the huge variance in estimated capital cost? And what's the relevance of distance to Douglas Glen? Was that just considered the minimum necessary terminus or something?
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What's the deal with the huge variance in estimated capital cost? And what's the relevance of distance to Douglas Glen? Was that just considered the minimum necessary terminus or something?
darwink
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YYCguy
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When Trudope made the announcement in Toronto aka “The Only Canada” aka “The Centre of the Universe” it seemed he made a “nudge nudge wink wink” to Mayor Chow for this money to be reserved for her own city’s wishlist so I doubt we will see any of that money since we don’t live in “Trudope’s Canada”.
kora
Active Member
The premier's comment to rethink the downtown tunnel stations is not helpful. We're building a Green Line for a region that will be approaching 3 million people before long. We need grade separated rail for a city that big. We're quickly falling into a rail deficit meanwhile Edmonton is quickly catching up and going through a building boom.
outoftheice
Active Member
Opinion: Green Line could be UCP’s ticket to Calgary
When it comes to the Green Line, we need leaders to show leadership by putting aside their differences to do what’s best for this city.
calgaryherald.com
AllanS
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zzkwilliamcanada
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so the project is dead or continue to work ?
Albertasaurus
Active Member
It's a giant word salad that I interpret as saying that the work is continuing.
O-tac
Active Member
I saw signs yesterday next to the Shepard maintenance facility land saying construction was beginning soon.
O-tac
Active Member
Yeah I read it the same way. I cannot imagine council not approving this next week.
outoftheice
Active Member
It's a word salad but reading between the lines, I see it as them saying they have recommended construction proceed with a scaled down version that will fit in the existing budget and that the scaled down version will still meet their mandate which they view as "a mandate from City Council to advance Phase 1 of the Green Line LRT Project, connecting the southeast to downtown and into the existing Red/Blue Lines". So doubtful we are getting Eau Claire to Shepard as has been proposed. What we get instead is anyone's guess until next week but it sounds like we are getting something built which to be honest, is a win. Once construction starts for real, more funding becomes a municipal and provincial election issue and I think Calgarians will reward politicians wanting to throw more money at Green Line which will help keep construction rolling beyond whatever gets approved next week.
YYCguy
Active Member
Which committee agenda/minutes should I look out for next week to see what is proposed/approved?
outoftheice
Active Member
Should be on the agenda for Tuesday's Council meeting.
CalgaryTiger
Senior Member
Here's how I read it...
Green Line Board made recommendations to Executive Committee of Council on project design, delivery strategy, and capital funding. My guesses on those recommendations:
Project design - Something BIG is changing (fewer stations, smaller tunnel, single track to Shepard), I don't see them not going to Shepard but maybe they only build out the track and not the stations?
Delivery strategy - Maybe they've cut it up more, I mean by the time you'd be building out the stations to Shepard there's going to be another opportunity for funding so I could see them moving to additional phasing?
Capital funding - Feds and Province aren't giving more money now but can the city find more money to tie them over to the next funding opportunities?
The updates said the recommendations were based on value engineering, design optimization, and contractor negotiations. :
Value engineering - These should be barebones stations, if they can rewrite a bylaw for noise for the Event Centre, maybe rewrite your public art bylaw haha.
Design optimization - Going with the most optimum design is a no brainer. Nothing fancy on this line.
Contractor negotiations - I'm sure there was some real talk in these negotiations, these projects have become fairly risky for contractors.
Green Line Board made recommendations to Executive Committee of Council on project design, delivery strategy, and capital funding. My guesses on those recommendations:
Project design - Something BIG is changing (fewer stations, smaller tunnel, single track to Shepard), I don't see them not going to Shepard but maybe they only build out the track and not the stations?
Delivery strategy - Maybe they've cut it up more, I mean by the time you'd be building out the stations to Shepard there's going to be another opportunity for funding so I could see them moving to additional phasing?
Capital funding - Feds and Province aren't giving more money now but can the city find more money to tie them over to the next funding opportunities?
The updates said the recommendations were based on value engineering, design optimization, and contractor negotiations. :
Value engineering - These should be barebones stations, if they can rewrite a bylaw for noise for the Event Centre, maybe rewrite your public art bylaw haha.
Design optimization - Going with the most optimum design is a no brainer. Nothing fancy on this line.
Contractor negotiations - I'm sure there was some real talk in these negotiations, these projects have become fairly risky for contractors.
YYCguy
Active Member
Thanks! It appears to be listed as a confidential item so the public will still be in the dark!