[CalgaryTiger]

Looks like it was published (or republished today), the timeline is now early 2025 for the full concept. There's a mention for "a municipal pool in a way that you could experience water in the river throughout the year, day and night". I assume this means an indoor pool?

Design selected for Bow River's riverwalk in southwest Calgary

The City of Calgary says work is moving ahead on a new public space along the Bow River with details of the project's design being released on Wednesday.

calgary.ctvnews.ca

Is this funded? I didn't think so but could be wrong.

 

[Calgcouver]

Is this funded? I didn't think so but could be wrong.

I hope some of the swimming ideas happen from this concept. Swimming plus accessible (portable, probably) saunas would be awesome. Something that works like Havnebadet Islands Brygge in Copenhagen would be ideal.

 

[Golfing guy]

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I hope some of the swimming ideas happen from this concept. Swimming plus accessible (portable, probably) saunas would be awesome. Something that works like Havnebadet Islands Brygge in Copenhagen would be ideal.

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except the water in the Bow is way to cold to swim in…. Any day of the year

 

[Roaring Flames]

The plan calls for a heated outdoor pool actually:​

 

[CBBarnett]

The plan calls for a heated outdoor pool actually:​

Capture some of that Banff hot springs traffic! They are famously open all winter too so there is local precedent

 

[lemongrab]

Found an update from the beginning of September on RiverWalk West

Where history meets modern design: A new vision for RiverWalk West

RiverWalk West's redevelopment project aims to enhance vibrancy and accessibility, improve the pathway system, and create areas for people to gather. It will connect East Village to downtown while harmonizing flood mitigation.

www.calgary.ca

The RiverWalk West project team is now working to refine the conceptual design before construction can begin. An updated timeline is expected to be shared with Calgarians in late 2024.

I assume we'll get a VE'd design at some point over the winter too. I assume construction in Spring '26?

That's a lot of words to say very little...it would be nice if there were a few more visuals to piece things together, but I'm sure they also want to manage expectations to some degree.

By taking that lane of traffic away at 4th Avenue, we increase the real estate of river walk to create a full park as opposed to a single line of pathway,” says Zabinski.

This would be huge, and hopefully it isn't a sticky point, because it would be a pretty painless change to make (convert northmost lane on 5th to WB west of 9th St). Ideally I'd feed that right into 6th, and convert the rest of the single lane 4th Ave/Bow Tr to a wheeling lane.

 

[Surrealplaces]

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except the water in the Bow is way to cold to swim in…. Any day of the year

Most of the year it is, but I see lots of people swimming in it during the summer. If they did a swimming area like they have at Harvey passage, I could see it being used at least for a couple of months. It's probably a 2 month use period...maybe three months in a year like this one.

 

[Golfing guy]

Most of the year it is, but I see lots of people swimming in it during the summer. If they did a swimming area like they have at Harvey passage, I could see it being used at least for a couple of months. It's probably a 2 month use period...maybe three months in a year like this one.

Even on the summer months it’s crazy cold. Only the diehards and those that need to cool off quickly on the hot days would be inclined to go in. I like the idea of the heated pool

 

[trtcttc]

The plan calls for a heated outdoor pool actually:​

Wouldn't that cost a lot to operate in the winter? I wonder if this gets cut for funding purposes or just becomes a typical indoor pool, that area could use it too. We sorely need another round of recreational investment, this time not at the edges of the city.

 

[Mountain Man]

I bet it gets cut.

 

[lemongrab]

Summer splash park, winter skating. I believe that's what they do in Churchill Square in Edmonton

 

[Mountain Man]

Summer splash park, winter skating. I believe that's what they do in Churchill Square in Edmonton

That what Olympic Plaza is, at least until they rip it out.

 

[lemongrab]

It seems the city has quite a bit of land to play with on the south side of 5th Ave, so it would be pretty easy to re-route everything to 5th Ave and 11th St (though it wouldn't really take any more space than the existing sidewalk that is pretty useless). How big of a loss would the Pumphouse AM lane reversal be? It wouldn't be impossible to keep it, but it would be nice to snap our fingers and have the pathway twinned

 

[darwink]

How big of a loss would the Pumphouse AM lane reversal be? It wouldn't be impossible to keep it, but it would be nice to snap our fingers and have the pathway twinned

CalTRACS says 1200 vehicles peak peak westbound in the PM, 800 eastbound in the AM peak hour in May, 2024. That is a marginal drop from pre-pandemic.

Peak hour on 9th east bound (west of 11th) is 4900 vehicles (May, Wednesday). Left turns 500, straight 2400, right turns 350 (August, Thursday). So, raising those by 50.7%, 753 left, 3617 straight, 528 right.

I can see moving those 800 vehicles from the reversal to 9th could push that intersection much closer to failure. Have to remember that before the reversal was in place that many many more vehicles traveled into Sunalta during rush hours.

 

[CalgaryTiger]

CalTRACS says 1200 vehicles peak peak westbound in the PM, 800 eastbound in the AM peak hour in May, 2024. That is a marginal drop from pre-pandemic.

Peak hour on 9th east bound (west of 11th) is 4900 vehicles (May, Wednesday). Left turns 500, straight 2400, right turns 350 (August, Thursday). So, raising those by 50.7%, 753 left, 3617 straight, 528 right.

I can see moving those 800 vehicles from the reversal to 9th could push that intersection much closer to failure. Have to remember that before the reversal was in place that many many more vehicles traveled into Sunalta during rush hours.

The concept, keeping in mind that's what it is and it is not a plan, shows the reversal lane being used as a bike path (pink pathway beside Bow Trail). Could the actual plan still use a reversed lane on Bow Trail to dump cars onto 5th Ave at the corner of Bow Trail and 11st St. I think so and don't see why not?

For reference, the concept reduces the five lanes to three on 5th Ave west of 9th St.