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Originally Posted by Table 5
Sorry if this has already been discussed (just don't feel like wading through 40 pages), but has the NE alignment along site Deerfoot now been dropped for a route up Centre Street? Or is this a whole other line that's still only living as a what-if? I always thought that Deerfoot route was rather ######ed considering nobody lives along it....Centre Street (or at least Edmonton Trail) makes way too much sense to ignore.
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There were open houses earlier this year when city administration showed alternatives to the Nose Creek routing. It sounds like the Nose Creek routing has fallen out of favour with administration, and especially after the majority of the community people were in support of a centre street or edmonton trail alignment.
Personally, I see the Nose Creek alignment as having a large issue, that it would require another completely separate downtown ROW. The money saved by connecting to the (then) existing SELRT LOW up 2nd St SE would help offset the additional cost of constructing the line up centre street.