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Originally Posted by powderjunkie

West of? Or north of? Would the Shaw house get cut off and not have any neighbours? It would be like a castle on top of a hill!

https://calgaryherald.com/business/r...up-for-auction

Did it end up selling?

According to the Q&A article, they don't "know" (but perhaps they just aren't telling)

Spoiler!

CBC: There will be a level crossing on Centre Street at 16th Avenue N. Temporarily, that will also be the end of the line for the CTrain. So how do you do that in that intersection without creating a huge traffic snarl in all four directions?

Thompson: So the station will actually be just to the south of 16th Avenue. So we actually won't cross 16th Avenue and we'll have a station just to the south of 16th Avenue. So we're actually not crossing 16th Avenue at grade right now. We'll have a station to the south and the train, the project will start and go south from there.

CBC: Can you explain how a CTrain will get from running in the middle of Centre Street over to the new bridge that would carry it over the Bow River?



Michael Thompson is the general manager for the City of Calgary's Transportation Department. (City of Calgary)
Thompson: The Green Line is a low-floor LRT, so it's not the same type of LRT that we have right now. Lower stations, smaller vehicles — so it doesn't have the same physical impact on the environment around it. As we run down the middle of Centre Street, there are going to be no barriers between the train and the adjacent vehicles. So, think of a low-floor LRT like you would see in Europe or in cities all across North America. So it's not like 36th Street, where we have a concrete barrier between the traffic and the train. It's really integrated into the entire road cross-section. Then, as we go down from 16th Avenue to the south, we'll have a set of signals. The train will cross, go across the single lane of road traffic going southbound on Centre Street, and get onto the new bridge.

CBC: There's the escarpment there. There are houses up above. Are you going to cut into the escarpment or is it just a turn before the Centre Street bridge and away it will go?

Thompson: Those are details we're working through still to understand exactly what that will look like.

I understand the idea of a psychological barrier of getting across the river. I just don't see how 16th Ave doesn't pose the same kind of barrier.

It's about 1.2 km to get from the Bow River hillside to the far side of 16th Ave.

Yeah, NW of the Shaw house and those other properties that are there are going to be affected.