Chinese_T
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Are those Texas donuts? wow. I guess it is sorta swampy.
lol, I thought that at first but at closer inspection they're just couches in an amenity area, thankfully.
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Are those Texas donuts? wow. I guess it is sorta swampy.
Access to the maintenance facility to be built on the east side of the stationWhy do the tracks take a 90 degree turn after the stop?
If I recall they were pitched as kind of like Barcelona super blocks. That outline plan / concept won some Mayors Urban Design Awards I think. Let's hope it turns out as envisioned. So far, no construction yet in that area.Are those Texas donuts? wow. I guess it is sorta swampy.
Loved staying in the old Olympic Village ones in Barcelona. We had a pool in our courtyard. So much street lifeIf I recall they were pitched as kind of like Barcelona super blocks. That outline plan / concept won some Mayors Urban Design Awards I think. Let's hope it turns out as envisioned. So far, no construction yet in that area.
Grade Separation... interesting. I assume they can't do something simple like they have at 42 Ave because of the freight (future passenger ) tracks.50th Ave Functional Planning Study
The City is creating a functional plan to improve connections in the area and meet mobility & growth needs.engage.calgary.ca
These engagements like the 50th Avenue Study are always kind of funny to me - isn't it really only about cost? Grade-separation is always preferred by all users, but super expensive and probably differently expensive between an underpass v. overpass to the point that we should pick the cheaper option of the two. So asking the public for their preference is nice, but don't know what it would add here.Grade Separation... interesting. I assume they can't do something simple like they have at 42 Ave because of the freight (future passenger ) tracks.
There's been a half-century push to figure out better arterial access across the inner city, most of which as part of the highway-building post-war era. You can go back to older city plans and reports from 1960s, 70s and 80s that were all trying to figure out better east-west access for vehicles. Usually - and usually for the better - they were all unsuccessful or got about half-way through an implementation and a particularly corridor was half-built before fading from popularity and never being finished.I remember reading about that, but it was really more of an alternative idea for what would eventually become Glenmore Trail. Glenmore even lines up with 50 Ave near 37 St SW.
This is encouraging - lets get rid of the traffic lights on McLeod south of Anderson.Funding approved todayA promise to look at funding this in the spring was approved today:
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