wormwood
Active Member
Scaled back significantly from the original design (2023 vs 2025)
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Capital Line LRT
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Avenuer
Senior Member
They should just use the same station typology everywhere, just build what’s at NAIT/Blatchford Market for all high-floor stations. I’m fine with that, don’t need a unique, fancy design at each station when costs could be better used at additional trackage, grade separation, LRV purchases, etc.
The_Cat
Senior Member
Even thee Valley Line stations aren’t bad.
J_gordo
Active Member
Where did you find this?
wormwood
Active Member
CplKlinger
Senior Member
I'd prefer they copy + paste McKernan (but with actual winterized shelters*) because of the centre platform. I use NAIT Station daily, and it's a pain because we all need to wait on the sidewalk just before the platform until a train arrives. Otherwise, there's a 50% chance that you'll be waiting on the wrong platform, and have to awkwardly jog around to the other platform to board the train.
*Fun fact by the way: in 2020, council looked at winterizing the platform shelters (report, and the attachment), but the funding package ultimately didn't make the cut.
J_gordo
Active Member
The new station looks good enough. Doesn’t need to be anything crazy. I will say that the original elevated station looked far superior (and was better long term too).
J_gordo
Active Member
Capital Line South 2021
Somewhere in an alternate reality…. (Just look how good that station looked!)
Somewhere in an alternate reality…. (Just look how good that station looked!)
yeggator
Active Member
Seems like a cut-and-paste of Kingsway.
Gronk!
Senior Member
Normally I'd say enough of the "good-enoughism" but seeing that federal and provincial funding is involved then I agree with you.
archited
Senior Member
I actually prefer the revised design -- the first is way out of scale for its function -- architectural chest-thumping to no good advantage.
buildings
Active Member
makes no sense to me that each station is unique. extra design and engineering fees for no good reason. pick a design and stamp it out all along the line.
TagYEG
New Member
The Nait station is currently a pain as an end of the line station, but in 1,000,000 years when the Metro line is extended to Castle Downs, this won't be a problem.
CplKlinger
Senior Member
At this point I'm just excited for it to go to Blatchford Gate so that NAIT isn't the terminus anymore lol
Barnaby
Senior Member
I sure wish they'd install fare gates at all new stations.