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Originally Posted by McMack
I first visited this web site a couple of weeks ago expecting something about reducing level crossings and making the line run faster, but what I discovered instead is that all they cared about was elevated lines messing up their view in their own little tidbit of the proposed line. They even have hysterical artist mock-ups of grafitti painted concrete pillars with drug dealers hanging about. (No joke, go check for yourself.)
FYI, some of these changes would involve huge disruptions to Bow Trail and intentionally NOT making any upgrades to traffic flow on Bow at the same time. Crazy.
EDIT: This group is now proposing another $80mil in changes. That's $100 mil total and $100 for every man, woman, child and baby in Calgary.
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Yeah that website is pretty terrible. I just sent an e-mail to my alderman protesting this site using the "Best West" template but changing some of the words around to reflect my view point. Here's my template for anyone wishing to do the same. The Best West LRT site has a list of all the alderman's e-mail addresses:
Attention:
Your Alderman here
As a resident of
Your community here in Calgary I am writing to tell you that I support the City alignment of the West LRT . Upon inspection of the Best West LRT Committee's website it is fairly obvious that this is a NIMBY group whose efforts serve only to: A) Increase ultimate cost to the taxpayers by tunneling the LRT in certain places not originally called for, B) Reduce the efficiency of transit by proposing an out-of the-way alternative alignment, and C) Massively delay a project that has been needed for a number of years already. Please do your best to ensure that this group fails to de-rail the West LRT.
Thank You.
Concerned Resident and Voter,
-Your Name Here