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Originally Posted by accord1999
The section for Centre Street N at https://engage.calgary.ca/greenline suggests it will not be grade-separated.
I doubt there's enough space to go from surface to underpass if the station is anywhere close the 16th Ave. The old Option E which was very similar to this new alignment specifically had a tunnel and underground station under 16th Ave to avoid the problem. |
It's implied in that and the report that it's at grade, and I feel that's a mistake. At first I didn't mind, but now I believe that they should take this as an opportunity to improve traffic for 16th ave there by having at least trenching the line there so 16 Ave traffic doesn't interact with the LRT, and theoretically have longer light sequences during rush hour since traffic lanes on centre should be reduced.
The major crossing roadways further up the line at McKnight, 96 Ave, and Country Hills have the train going under those intersections to avoid traffic. So 16th has enough traffic that it should be the same. However I could see them not caring about this and why they have compromised in letting 16th be at grade is that road already has a billion traffic lights each block. So they figure the train wouldn't make things worse.