As if it's not enough to have the province and the city constantly changing transit plans, we've now also got to deal with rich Banff "philanthropists" telling us solutions. Which just happen to make their project viable, once us taxpayers foot the bills for the expensive bits.
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But hiding in plain sight is an opportunity to integrate two Calgary infrastructure assets — the Plus-15 network and the CPKC corridor — to create an effective, low-cost mass transit rail solution. As the proponents of the Calgary Airport Banff Rail (CABR) project, my firm, Liricon, and our partner, Plenary Americas, are proposing the CADE Plus-15 solution.
If CPKC gets on board, the province can build CADE from the airport to downtown within the CPKC rail corridor and then elevate the track for 5.5 km between the Bow River and 11th Street S.W. CADE’s 2.4-km downtown section could include three new stations along 9th Avenue: Downtown East (at 4th Street S.E. — Grand Central Station), Midtown (at 3rd Street S.W.) and Downtown West (at 11th Street S.W). All three stations will be connected through the Plus-15 network north to 7th Avenue.
The CADE Plus-15 solution addresses all previously identified issues. The Green Line is integrated at ground level at the Downtown East Station, just south of the CPKC rail corridor. Green Line passengers then walk to the Blue Line and Red Line via a new Plus-15 along 9th Avenue, and then north on 3rd Street S.E. behind City Hall to 7th Avenue. This roughly 500-metre walk is similar to the distance riders in Toronto walk between the Union Pearson Express from Union Station to the Union Station subway line.
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Uh, except, you know, traversing downtown to enable the north green line? You know, the one that started this entire project, and the greatest need for transit in the city? That one? Did you solve it? No, you did not, you muppet. Pay full attention to the rapidly moving hand over here, while we pick your pocket and tell you you are pretty.
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The CADE Plus-15 solution also provides additional downtown east-west mass transit rail capacity for the 2.4 km between the Downtown East and West stations, relieving pressure on the Blue and Red Lines on 7th Avenue. The Midtown Station and Downtown West Station would require passengers to walk four minutes to the 7th Avenue LRT stations via the Plus-15 network. This couldn’t be easier.
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https://calgaryherald.com/opinion/co...e-gordian-knot
Said no one about an integrated (5?) line 150km transit project, ever.
They've got a website to push it, and video. Sure, why not. Handing off billions to billionaires to make millions more is a timed honoured tradition in this city/province. Why not connect one of those projects to another? can we get a cancelled pipeline in there, too? I'm sure it'll work out just fine for us.
https://friendsofcabr.com/