yeggator
Active Member
I liken it to the CTrain Red Line running in the median of Crowchild Trail in Northwest Calgary.
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Edmcowboy11
Senior Member
Which in one way it's not bad, except for the fact that it's utterly useless for building up passengers on to the train anywhere along Terwilliger Drive. Even if they built a station somewhere along Terwilliger it would be probably the most awkward station to get to. As convenient it is to have routes along freeways it doesn't do anything to build ridership.
thommyjo
Senior Member
Yes and no. The TOD potential is already low for anything in that corridor and there are few other alignments you could do because of the street network design of the 90s/00s. Terwillegar would allow the fastest speeds to makeup for most users having to bus to a station first.
Having bus routes feed stations along terwillegar, plus a healthy car drop off area, is probably best.
Airboy
Senior Member
Calgary did use Crowchild alignment so I could see Terwilliger. But none of this will be done in the next 20 years. St Albert Maybe.
an_edmontonian
New Member
I don't see many people utilizing stops put down in the middle of a pseudo freeway, especially from on foot. Riverbend road or Rabbit Hill road would be better for that portion.
To integrate the SW into an LRT network, I would run the Metro line from South Campus west into Riverbend, and then follow Riverbend Road South to 23 ave, and then run the Metroline East to connect back to the capital line at 23 ave & 111 street. A spur line could branch south from the Metro Line at 23 ave & Rabbit Hill Road.
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thommyjo
Senior Member
Over whitemud creek ravine through brookside? Good luck on that height of bridge and community opposition. It would have to stay aligned to the whitemud.
Riverbend road also makes the train even further for most of that area. Not very sensible vs terwillegar as the fast train with slower neighborhood buses feeding into it. A slow train along the west edge seems unhelpful. And then another bridge east on 23rd ave to connect to capital line? Also doesn’t make make sense to me as there’s few major destinations being conected now.
The only sensible route is terwillegar drive south, over the henday, capturing some of the denser parts on terwillegar town on the north, and all the retail traffic in the south from windemere currents. Then terminating at the planned transit centre on windemere blvd.
It’s a commuter train to downtown and uni, not a car replacer for urban lifestyle at all hours like the west valley line. Speed is critical. TOD is less.
Tropical
Active Member
This all reads like a summary for why BRT is the likely solution for a very long time in this area (even forever).