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Originally Posted by 4X4

This leads me to another thought: whose idea was it to make those ugly, over the tracks stations to begin with? I can think of a dozen reasons why they're ridiculous, starting with cost, moving on to lack of handicap access, and ending with sheer ugliness.

And just a few posts later we have in this very thread:

Originally Posted by Madman

GonDOlas. GONdolas. GondoLAS.

You to will need to figure out how to properly pronounce it when you board the new Calgary Transit Gondola system - or as I like to call it, the "The G-Train".

http://www.calgaryherald.com/travel/...122/story.html

There's your answer. Somebody's brilliant idea in the late 70's is today's overpriced and hard to upgrade eyesore. I'm sure the artist reditions back then showed it as a meeting place and a marketplace. However for practicallity, they could have elevated all of the 36th street line for the same price if they built nice simple stations.