https://pub-calgary.escribemeetings....umentId=131775
Read through the assessment report. I still dont think they made the correct decision at the time with the information in the report. The North LRT south BRT is better yet in the ranking they hammer it. It was 1 billion cheaper at the time and because of the limited tunnel and bridge scope (bridge ran down center st).
One egregious example of a plain to see error is in the Cost section for A2 they say the north segment will cost 8 million per year and the south section will cost 28 million per year opex. (A2 is 16th to Shepard B1 is North BRT / South BRT). Then for B1 the operation costs for North BRT is 56 million. Based on the alignments those costs should be in the same ballpark. It appears they didn’t include the costs for the existing North BRT system in the considerations.
This is a report written to justify a selection it is not a dispassionate evaluation.