I don't think Nenshi has ever proposed this. If you were looking at the long-term airport service plan, there was a proposal for a tram in there, and that was a hastily put together document by Calgary Transit, so that proposal may be a bit spurious.
It's not an uncommon sentiment though.
Never anything official since he has become mayor but it was in one of his youtube better idea transit videos, same one where he mentioned a tram in the beltline.
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I know some people are train enthusiasts, but that's a little ridiculous.
Haha. Yeah I get a kick out of it too.
"Humping" in this case is a railway term. When transferring cars from one consist to another, they will be pushed over a small hill or hump, then roll down hill and connect to another train. They put the "Do Not Hump" warnings on the LRVs because they can be significantly damaged by this process. Some of Edmonton's new LRVs arrived damaged and had to be sent back (at significant cost to the manufacturer) because they had been "humped."
Never anything official since he has become mayor but it was in one of his youtube better idea transit videos, same one where he mentioned a tram in the beltline.
Oh, in this case the streetcar proposal wasn't meant as a replacement for not having LRT up Centre Street. Nenshi was suggesting to have both, and has always spoken out against the Nose Creek alignment.
Oh, in this case the streetcar proposal wasn't meant as a replacement for not having LRT up Centre Street. Nenshi was suggesting to have both, and has always spoken out against the Nose Creek alignment.
If you have both, then the LRT should run up Edmonton Trail instead of Centre Street,
This city is too big to simply say the quadrant anymore. Could be Inglewood, Franklin, or Cranston. I wish that the media would just say the community name and be done with it instead of this "a stabbing in the city's SE" or an "accident in the city's NW".
I know that in this case they were more specific by saying the station name, but far too often the headline and lead-in are only slightly more informative than saying that something happened somewhere in Calgary. /rant
This city is too big to simply say the quadrant anymore. Could be Inglewood, Franklin, or Cranston. I wish that the media would just say the community name and be done with it instead of this "a stabbing in the city's SE" or an "accident in the city's NW".
I know that in this case they were more specific by saying the station name, but far too often the headline and lead-in are only slightly more informative than saying that something happened somewhere in Calgary. /rant
I made a map for other purposes that I'll share. Basically, the thinking is that quadrants or north/south are too broad, and include too many types of places to use to describe areas of Calgary
I think using these areas (give or take) to describe the location of somewhere in Calgary makes a lot more sense than simply SW, NW, NE, or SE.
Absolutely they do. The quadrant system makes sense for street addresses but is an oversimplification when actually trying to describe a part of the city.
Fail for using Central South instead of South Central. Also, why Far sometimes and Deep other times?
Not sure. "Far North" sounds more right to me than "Deep North" and vice versa with South. I originally wanted to use disparaging names like "middle of freaking nowhere," "Leduc south," "halfway to US border," "East Bucktussle," etc. but decided to be more diplomatic about it.
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Us southerners always get the label of the deep south, but the northerners seem to feel exempt to the label of deep north. I never understood that. The north is just as far from us as the south is to you. A bit of topic, but just an observation.
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I made a map for other purposes that I'll share. Basically, the thinking is that quadrants or north/south are too broad, and include too many types of places to use to describe areas of Calgary
- 4th Street West Station was re-opened on Friday. Here's a video of Mayor Nenshi announcing it on a Northeast train the morning of the opening.
- The refurbishment work on Whitehorn Station appears to be almost done. It was closed down over the weekend to erect the new platform canopy. The next station outside downtown to be extended to four-LRV length will be Southland Station.
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Us southerners always get the label of the deep south, but the northerners seem to feel exempt to the label of deep north. I never understood that. The north is just as far from us as the south is to you. A bit of topic, but just an observation.
I think it is partly because the southern edge of the city is farther away from downtown then the northern edge and partly because deep north just sounds funny.
