FYI, Construction on the West LRT is beginning today. Bow Trail will be reduced from 3 lanes to 2 for the next ~18 months.
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Starting today, westbound Bow Trail will be reduced to two lanes between 24th Street and 33rd Street from 7 a.m. to 3 p.m. Starting March 1 that closure will be in place around the clock, until the fall of 2011.
Also on March 1, the left-turning lanes on 17th Avenue between 33rd Street and 39th Street will be shut down until the fall of 2011, although left turns will still be permitted.
Let the construction headaches begin! I personally cannot wait for the West LRT to be built as I'm a block from the Sunalta station.
I was looking for a map of where the west leg would go. Not an animation, not some fancy graphic, just a map of the city and a line that shows where the bloody thing goes. I couldn't find one. Is that really too much to ask for?
I will have the joy of watching and hearing the construction on 17th right from my bedroom window!
I'll be happy when it's done, but the construction is going to be a nightmare. Alas.
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I was looking for a map of where the west leg would go. Not an animation, not some fancy graphic, just a map of the city and a line that shows where the bloody thing goes. I couldn't find one. Is that really too much to ask for?
I was looking for a map of where the west leg would go. Not an animation, not some fancy graphic, just a map of the city and a line that shows where the bloody thing goes. I couldn't find one. Is that really too much to ask for?
Here's one I pulled from from westlrt.ca:
The one on the website is higher resolution.
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So it's just a continuation of the NE route? It will be McKnight to, instead of ending at 10th street, the west leg, correct?
Probably, but not necessarily.
One possibility is to link it with the south line since the WestLRT stations will be built to 4 car capacity right off the bat, and the south line may be the first older line to have all its stations extended to 4 car length.
It will probably be an operational extension of the NE LRT line though.
One other note is that 10th Street Station be moved a block west to become 11th Street Station by the time WLRT is up and running.
I just started a job that I need to take the McKnight line too. When the West LRT is finished, not only am I going to be ecstatic about taking one train all the way, but I'm going to be licking my chops at the nice boost in property value that is surely going to accompany being right next door (like, literally less than a block away!)
I just started a job that I need to take the McKnight line too. When the West LRT is finished, not only am I going to be ecstatic about taking one train all the way, but I'm going to be licking my chops at the nice boost in property value that is surely going to accompany being right next door (like, literally less than a block away!)
I've heard houses that close to a station go down in value. Yeah, handy for you, but also handy for any riff-raff that may be looking for mischief.
That may be a myth, but that is what I have heard.
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I've heard houses that close to a station go down in value. Yeah, handy for you, but also handy for any riff-raff that may be looking for mischief.
That may be a myth, but that is what I have heard.
Property values certainly go up the closer you get to a station, and within a radius of about 600-800 meters (5-7 minute walk) is where this really intensifies.
Not sure if this is across the board, or if, like you say, there is a point at which properties are "too close.". It doesn't sound familiar from anything I have read on the subject though.
The construction will be pretty intensive and quick along the entire route. Some important milestones:
- 29th, 38th, and 39th Streets will be closed permanently on March 1st, 2010.
- 17th Avenue between 40th and 33rd Streets reduced to 2 lanes each way on March 1st, 2010 until Fall 2011.
- Tunnel starts construction in April 2010 near 39th Street
- Elevated guideway construction begins in May 2010 (between 11th Street West and Crowchild Trail)
- Sarcee Trail detour road opens in July 2010 and interchange construction begins.
- Bridges at 42nd Street and 45th Street (over the LRT trench) open in October 2010
- New Ernest Manning High School (west of 69th Street) opens in September 2011, old Ernest Manning High School is knockeed down and tunnel construction continues
WestLRT Construction Transgression thread
