Here's a survey regarding the North Central LRT. Basically asks most of the questions that are asked by the feedback forms at the open houses. I encourage you to fill it out if you can't attend.
There's another open house at the Winston Heights Community Association this evening. I went to the one at Cardel Place yesterday evening. It seemed very well attended. Not much love for the Nose Creek alignment.
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There's another open house at the Winston Heights Community Association this evening. I went to the one at Cardel Place yesterday evening. It seemed very well attended. Not much love for the Nose Creek alignment.
This is good news indeed. A Nose Creek LRT would essentially be an express train for people North of Beddington Trail and do nothing to enhance transportation or the communities between Beddington and downtown.
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Over the past 6 months I have met with representatives from several LRV manufacturers and have seen some of what the new breed of LRT vehicles will bring to Calgary.
While at the Federation of Canadian Municipalities I became aware of the Aerobus, a “self propelled vehicle speeds silently through the sky carrying 300 passengers.”
Aside from the price tag difference of an elevated LRT, compared to the current LRT lines that Calgary enjoys, the reduced need to build at grade infrastructure (tracks, traffic control, land usage), the lack of disruption for motorists and the reduced environmental footprint encouraged me to look at this as well as all of the other options for which to design the Southeast TransitWay (SETWAY).
I would be ok with it, I dont like however that there doenst seem to be alot of implementations of this sort of thing out there.
For the cost descrepancy there must be something at issue with it - either its an eyesore like most elevated transportation or not reliable or something
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From reading the FAQs it appears it has not ever been deployed other than the test setup. Which would make Calgary the guinea pig. (Also explains why there was no actual picture to use.)
Oh, and you can't use it when the winds are over 60 km/h. And if it stalls you are now left with a major rescue effort; instead of telling people to "watch their step" off an LRT.
The new south ramp entrance at Whitehorn Station should be opening soon. The crosswalk across 36th Street was shifted this last weekend from the south side of Whitehorn Drive to the north side, and I can't see anything that needs to be put in place before the ramp could open up. The ticket machines are in place too, just covered up for now.
From reading the FAQs it appears it has not ever been deployed other than the test setup. Which would make Calgary the guinea pig. (Also explains why there was no actual picture to use.)
Oh, and you can't use it when the winds are over 60 km/h. And if it stalls you are now left with a major rescue effort; instead of telling people to "watch their step" off an LRT.
From the wiki page it looks like one in China is close to being completed as well as a few older implementations in Switzerland.
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Yeah, but it won a competition for new technology in Milwaukee in 1989, they've just been working on raising the money for 22 years. I'm sure it'll be built any day now...
Yeah, but it won a competition for new technology in Milwaukee in 1989, they've just been working on raising the money for 22 years. I'm sure it'll be built any day now...
for sure - instant red flag. Interesting idea with too many potential problems. Pass.
I think there's only one place in Calgary where that kind of technology might make some sense. From Westbrook Station to Foothills Hospital (across the river), and perhaps extending it somehow to University LRT station, but that extention would likely be better served by some other technology, even if it meant another transfer.
Without knowing too much about it, it's kind of funny how a high-tech, sophisticated gondola system that could solve a lot of commute problems gets negative responses for being impractical while if the City studied a normal gondola system that's probably a lot more unsafe would probably get more public support.
Without knowing too much about it, it's kind of funny how a high-tech, sophisticated gondola system that could solve a lot of commute problems gets negative responses for being impractical while if the City studied a normal gondola system that's probably a lot more unsafe would probably get more public support.
Gondola systems don't have the capacity that other transit systems have. Also, they are probably somewhat less reliable than other systems (ie. the high wind speed shut down), plus when something does go wrong, evacuating people is a giant task. Their main advantage is being able to ascend/decend steep grades and cross over rivers without significant extra cost.
Without knowing too much about it, it's kind of funny how a high-tech, sophisticated gondola system that could solve a lot of commute problems gets negative responses for being impractical while if the City studied a normal gondola system that's probably a lot more unsafe would probably get more public support.
I assure you I (and CP in general) would be making jokes and calling ridiculous any gondola based transit system that the city would care to propose.
