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Originally Posted by powderjunkie
Does anyone know the exact location/length of the tunnel? I guess the biggest infrastructure issue would be having to actually build all of the stations below, again... (then needing double the transit cops, etc.) - seems like an all or none proposition.
The best use of the existing tunnels might be for eventual HSR. The biggest challenge in twinning the existing CP tracks all the way to Banff would be the stretch from 14 st SW to the Elbow river. It would be interesting if they could connect a route from the existing tunnel all the way to CP tracks west of Crowchild as part of the eventual West Village remediations/realignment.
Wouldn't be hard to keep it as one big trunk with both directions of Bow Trail immediately south of the tracks. Maybe 4 Ave only feeds into this express trunk and 6 ave connects to the surface streets of WV.
Even if rail (hyperloop?) to Banff is half a century away, it would be prudent to build with it in mind whenever they start scooping up the soil in WV.
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The Red Line will eventually go under 8th ave. A small amount of infrastructure is already there for that.
CP Rail/HSR tunnel is a non-starter. WAY too expensive for the benefit you would get. Virtually impossible to make it work to have significant benefit anyway.