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Originally Posted by You Need a Thneed
Looking at the letter from the Airport to the city from Thursday, the Airport is proposing to pay for over 50% of the interchange costs. That's why the city's share may seem small. You can see the interchange designs here. (scroll to the last two pages of the document) |
That's good to hear about the Airport pitching in for the interchanges.
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Originally Posted by You Need a Thneed
It also should be noted that the "people mover" from the west that the airport talks about is almost certainly a dead idea in the city's eyes (see the NC LRT open houses coming up this week). The north Central LRT will be running up Harvest Hills Blvd, and not Nose Creek at that point - meaning that it'll be a shorter distance to the NE line instead of the NC line (also, the NC LRT line is likely 20ish years away from construction). Also, leaving both directions available, allows a crosstown route that connects both ways to be built, making the value of building the connection greater. Airport LRT projects have had low ridership in other cities, a crosstown route would certainly help that.
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The Nose Creek alignment for North Central LRT is far from dead, and a routing specifically up Centre Street is even further from a certainty. It will require a significant voice from the community denouncing the Nose Creek alignment and supporting a more central (Centre Street or Edmonton Trail one). Even then it will require even more political will to overcome the cost difference and other trade-offs between them. That's why it's important to get the voice out early on it (hint hint: attend the open houses and/or send your comments in via e-mail everyone).