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Originally Posted by DoubleF
That's what tunnels are for!  I was actually thinking that the line would cross the river under Centre Street, go East along Memorial or something before going North on Edmonton trail.
It wasn't a deeply well hashed out idea. It was just mere musing about how Edmonton trail was used, with the type of traffic there and the businesses nearby, it seemed like it would have less disruptions to regular overall traffic while also alleviating traffic on Centre street somewhat. It could also be designed to promote more pedestrian traffic to local businesses kind of thing a la 4th Street.
Again, just musing. I bet someone already considered the idea and plastered the whole Edmonton Trail concept with responses with reasons why it's problematic and doesn't work. If that information was out there though, I'd definitely be curious to see the analysis. Just nerdy reasons, not for argumentative purposes to push Edmonton Trail as a viable idea. |
Original plan was Nose Creek (ie. a bit west of Deerfoot, parallel to the CP tracks)...it was then re-evaluated with Centre St or Ed Trail as alternatives, and they landed on Centre St for various reasons. So it has been considered fairly extensively.
Since money being tagged specifically to LRT seems to be an issue (though I'm not sure it
has to be an issue that negotation couldn't figure out), here's my half-baked idea:
- use LRT tagged funds to build LRT (or better yet VLRT/roadway hybrid) bridge across river and tunnel from McHugh Bluff to north side 16 Ave. Then regular BRT (or VLRT hybrid) ROW for SE. Worry about connecting them later, which seems like it may be less and less necessary all the time.