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Originally Posted by JustAnotherGuy
Why don't you guys shut the hell up with the complaining about putting the LRT below ground. Why don't you educate yourself on why they didn't go underground.
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they put it above ground because it wouldn't be ready in time for the olympics, this was a result of POOR PLANNING!
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Originally Posted by St Loomis
Let me think, I can put up a few good reasons of the top of my head:
1) Capacity - Subway systems typically hold huge capacities of people, something around 45000 people per direction per peak hour. Whereas LRT holds 30000 per direction per peak hour. Calgary does not have the population density or density of jobs (except for downtown) to support the larger capacity. Definitely in 1980 when the downtown track was completed they did not have the capacity and we still do not.
2)Cost - Subway systems typically cost about 100 million dollars per kilometer of track and then another 4-8 million for each car. LRT costs Calgary 15 million per kilometer of track and 4 million per car.
3)Downtown traffic - it has been city policy to not increase downtowns capacity for cars since 1960s. Opening up a road on 7th ave would have done exactly that and then further reduced reliance on transit....however if it were made a pedestrian street it would be a different story.
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ok so...
1) more people would take the train if they could get on it! and even if the number of riders would be lower now, we'd be actually planning for(better sit down for this one).... THE FUTURE! should we really go through 10 more years of this crap before doing something?
2) cost? they are spending millions on fancy bridges, ring roads with no competion date in sight, and this east village revival/gentrification/make all the politicians who own property there rich project, i would much rather my tax dollars go to something that makes sense
3) since there are no new access roads into downtown being created by simply creating a subway, the current traffic would only be less congested, the people who decide to now drive because they think its better would be counter balanced by the people who would take a viable form of public transit to work