Calgary Public Transit - Discussion

[stevinder]

Originally Posted by Jimmy Stang

Can't we just drop these hyphenated names? Kerby or Downtown West or Mewata or Millennium Park or anything but a hyphenated name. The more concise the station names, the better. It is a station name, not a list of everything nearby (I'm looking at you, SAIT-ACAD-Jubilee.)

Blame John Mar for the naming.

[Bigtime]

Originally Posted by stevinder

Blame John Mar for the naming.

Him and the Shetland pony he rode in on!

[stevinder]

Originally Posted by Bigtime

Him and the Shetland pony he rode in on!

[yads]

Originally Posted by You Need a Thneed

"when the WLRT opens for service" is almost certainly Dec 10 at this point.

Why do you say that? That would be awesome if true, so sick of having to transfer to the 301.

[mykalberta]

Originally Posted by frinkprof

10th Street Station Closes Permanently September 15th

More: http://www.calgarytransit.com/html/1...n_closure.html



Doors Open

Calgary Transit will be giving open house tours of two of their transit facilities (Oliver Bowen LRV Maintenance Facility and the Victoria Park Transit Centre) during the last weekend of September.

http://www.calgarytransit.com/html/doors_open.html

Sweet, I might take a pause from Fallcon and go to the open houses. I am such a city planner/transportation nerd.

[shermanator]

Originally Posted by Jimmy Stang

Can't we just drop these hyphenated names? Kerby or Downtown West or Mewata or Millennium Park or anything but a hyphenated name. The more concise the station names, the better. It is a station name, not a list of everything nearby (I'm looking at you, SAIT-ACAD-Jubilee.) /rant

Good news about the potential opening date. I had a feeling that we'd see this thing open in 2012 after all, and I hope that it turns out to be the case.

/rant

Not only is Downtown West - Kerby a ridiculous station name, the Kerby Centre is moving up by the Shaganappi Golf Course. So essentially, it's a station where part of the name points to nothing.

Call it Mewata and be done with it, I want to know where I'm at when riding the College - Westside - 69th Street - Bragg Creek line.

[You Need a Thneed]

Originally Posted by shermanator

Not only is Downtown West - Kerby a ridiculous station name, the Kerby Centre is moving up by the Shaganappi Golf Course. So essentially, it's a station where part of the name points to nothing.

Call it Mewata and be done with it, I want to know where I'm at when riding the College - Westside - 69th Street - Bragg Creek line.

It's not called Kerby because of the Kerby Centre. Both are named after the original landowner of the area.

I would have named it just one of "Downtown West", "Kerby", or "11th Street SW" though.

[You Need a Thneed]

Originally Posted by yads

Why do you say that? That would be awesome if true, so sick of having to transfer to the 301.

Fall signups for Transit operators end December 9 - Normally they would last longer then that. Information form CPTDB.ca.

[MrMastodonFarm]

Sunnyside station turns 25. A look back at the controversy surrounding it by Jason Markusoff.

http://www.calgaryherald.com/news/ca...704/story.html

There were mock funerals, foretelling the death of Sunnyside.

On Valentine’s Day, a red heart impaled on a knife was sent to an official’s door. Another day, the top bureaucrat’s face appeared on posters that read: Unwanted, Dead or Alive.

No, sir, Sunnyside did not want the LRT entering its neighbourhood in the 1980s.

The community organization held a benefit rock and blues concert for the long court fight against that station on 9A Street N.W. The cheeky concert poster featured instructions from a handbook on blowing up a railroad.

The residents’ blowups failed. Twenty-five years ago this week, an LRT station opened that has become such a cherished feature of the Kensington district that some want to tear down the green fence that obscures it from sight and install something that helps showcase the train.

“We tried to tell them that this line could transform the Hillhurst-Sunnyside area into one of the most dynamic pedestrian-friendly places in town,” recalls Rod Love, aid to then-mayor Ralph Klein.

[SebC]

^ ^ Sounds like Sunalta today.

[shermanator]

Originally Posted by SebC

^ ^ Sounds like Sunalta today.

Really? I live in Sunalta and haven't heard a thing even remotely close to a protest. The people around here that I've talked to are all for it.

[SebC]

Originally Posted by shermanator

Really? I live in Sunalta and haven't heard a thing even remotely close to a protest. The people around here that I've talked to are all for it.

It may be a case of a vocal minority getting a lot of attention, and the response was obviously on a smaller scale than Sunnyside, but there was definitely a fair bit of NIMBYism towards the West LRT.

[Jimmy Stang]

Originally Posted by SebC

It may be a case of a vocal minority getting a lot of attention, and the response was obviously on a smaller scale than Sunnyside, but there was definitely a fair bit of NIMBYism towards the West LRT.

If memory serves, there was a local group that had a few illustrations of how the area below the elevated track in Sunalta would be a magnet for loiterers. I think that some of them even had a Harlem-style fire in a garbage can.

Of course I can't find anything online to reinforce my memory, but there was definitely a lot of NIMBY-ism with the West LRT.

[Jimmy Stang]

OK, so I found the images. No Harlem Handwarmer, but some unsavouries painting graffiti:



Large image:

Spoiler!

[Bigtime]

Those images were hilarious, gave us a good laugh over at SSP. I think one of the members there even added some zombies to the image to make it more authentic.

[Table 5]

I like how all the hooligans came over in their moms Camry.

[You Need a Thneed]

NE trains will be turning around at City Hall Station is weekend, while the 10th Street Station is demolished.

Going through downtown at turning around at the west end of downtown would mean that the trains would have to pull up right alongside the demolition in progress, slowing down the work, and making it more complicated.

Link.

[nik-]

Does anyone have the pic with the CG LRT overpass all graffiti'd up with an existing real overpass immediately behind it with ZERO graffiti?

That was my favourite.

[frinkprof]

I took the liberty of saving all the "how it will look" renderings from the BestWestLRT website before it was taken down.









The last one is a parody of the originals done by DizzyEdge on SSP.

[morgin]

bump for merge