50 Street Widening & CP Rail Grade Separation

[Edmcowboy11]

Next? Let’s finish this crossing before we move onto the next one…..

Well you know what mean.
Yes finish this overpass completely but one of those rail crossing should be addressed sooner than later

 

[MacLac]

This has been such a long time coming.

Next IMO: 51 Ave or 34 Ave or 75 St. rail crossing

34th Ave makes sense…..

 

[fromyeg]

This has been such a long time coming.

Next IMO: 51 Ave or 34 Ave or 75 St. rail crossing

Now that the Province is in the business of building railways, let’s hope they fund the development of a train to the airport and then on to Calgary (and the accompanying grade separations at 51st and 34th.)

 

[The_Cat]

I think one bridge that should be considered is the CN crossing at Maple. That neighborhood has a lot of residents.

 

[The_Cat]

Another crossing will be at Ellerslie Road.

 

[The_Cat]

I think a bridge at 34 Avenue would work.

 

[Habibfazil]

I’m going to miss the old railway crossing (sniff, sniff).

dammit, gonna miss my CPR induced naps...

 

[Habibfazil]

I think one bridge that should be considered is the CN crossing at Maple. That neighborhood has a lot of residents.

not a bad idea, great place for pictures...

 

[yeggator]

I think one bridge that should be considered is the CN crossing at Maple. That neighborhood has a lot of residents.

I think the old 34th Ave overpass will inevitably be reconfigured into an interchange with a rail overpass. That all comes under the jurisdiction of the province, since the TUC goes right up to the railroad tracks, so they'll do it at their own discretion, probably once that area is a little more built out. (Question: does the city have to chip in for Henday interchanges or is it entirely the province that funds those?) Once they do that, they probably don't need to grade-separate Maple Road.

 

[yeggator]

This has been such a long time coming.

Next IMO: 51 Ave or 34 Ave or 75 St. rail crossing

34th Ave should be the next priority, since it falls on the future high-speed rail corridor, it's next to a rail yard, and that intersection experiences a lot of traffic without the trains already. Then it should be 19th Avenue into South Common because when trains go by, they create traffic that dangerously backs up onto Gateway Blvd (and you get cars zipping by at 90+ km/h past stationary cars), and it's also on the HSR corridor. Third priority should be at Whitemud Drive (this'll be very difficult to get the ramps to go over the tracks when they're all elevated over the freeway, but it's also on the HSR corridor and heavily needed because of the traffic.

 

[HappyJazzz]

34th Ave should be the next priority, since it falls on the future high-speed rail corridor, it's next to a rail yard, and that intersection experiences a lot of traffic without the trains already. Then it should be 19th Avenue into South Common because when trains go by, they create traffic that dangerously backs up onto Gateway Blvd (and you get cars zipping by at 90+ km/h past stationary cars), and it's also on the HSR corridor. Third priority should be at Whitemud Drive (this'll be very difficult to get the ramps to go over the tracks when they're all elevated over the freeway, but it's also on the HSR corridor and heavily needed because of the traffic.

Agree with much of this, but what I'd really like to see is an overall improvement to the Gateway corridor as part of the HSR project.

Ideally I'd like to see Gateway become free flow and converted to two way traffic, and have Calgary trail converted to two way, but oriented towards neighborhood access.

I think the lack of a simple and fast corridor to the city center has been one of the things holding back increased development downtown.

Now, do I think the city has the planning chops to pull something like that off? Lololol... No, absolutely not

 

[Airboy]

Another crossing will be at Ellerslie Road.

This one will be a tough one to redevelop.

 

[mcr]

34th Ave should be the next priority, since it falls on the future high-speed rail corridor, it's next to a rail yard, and that intersection experiences a lot of traffic without the trains already. Then it should be 19th Avenue into South Common because when trains go by, they create traffic that dangerously backs up onto Gateway Blvd (and you get cars zipping by at 90+ km/h past stationary cars), and it's also on the HSR corridor. Third priority should be at Whitemud Drive (this'll be very difficult to get the ramps to go over the tracks when they're all elevated over the freeway, but it's also on the HSR corridor and heavily needed because of the traffic.

An "easy" solution would be to force vehicles entering South Common from Gateway to use 102 St south since it's grade separated from the rail already. Just don't allow them to go straight through on 19 Ave anymore, then you're not backing up onto Gateway and don't have to build a difficult & expensive interchange. Could even configure the 19 Ave / 102 St intersection to have a free flow SB to help move things along. Traffic in SEC is a mess anyway, so would it really be THAT much worse?

 

[mcr]

This one will be a tough one to redevelop.

You think so? Armchair engineering it, it looks to be similar to the 137 Ave build on the north side, seems like there's a good amount of room around it, and no intersecting driveways or roads immediately beside the rail. Was that one particularly difficult as well?

 

[AJo]

You think so? Armchair engineering it, it looks to be similar to the 137 Ave build on the north side, seems like there's a good amount of room around it, and no intersecting driveways or roads immediately beside the rail. Was that one particularly difficult as well?

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There is more than enough room to do an overpass like the 137th street one by Clareview station which would leave lots of room for HSR. Easier than that over pass in fact as there is no secondary overpass to worry about for the second major cross road.