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Originally Posted by Mad Mel
It's a brand new line, and they've still got it crossing streets at ground level? That's pretty bush league.
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All the streets it is crossing at grade are either low volume, have been designed for the at-grade crossing from the outset (especially west of Sarcee Trail), or both. Some streets are being closed as well.
Calgary's brand of LRT will always have some at-grade crossings in certain places. Plenty of other cities do this as well, many of them bigger than Calgary. There's not much need to have grade separation on an LRT line as it crosses low volume streets through lower density residential areas, especially when many of those streets were designed with this in mind.