whatchyyc
Active Member
I need some help for a project, would anybody know the exact depth of the pedway connecting Gov't Centre with the Legislature? Information about the dimensions of the station underground are hard to find... thx in advance
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Airboy
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Its at least 2 stories under but is just under the surface as it crosses the road. It depends on what portion you are in. west side is higher that the central. east side is 15 to 20 ft down from the park surface. Its been about 5 years since I was last down.
archited
Senior Member
Time to invest in a tape measure.
Edmontonian
Active Member
Sorry if this has been posted before but it just popped up on youtube for me, thought it was pretty cool.
dkazzed
Active Member
I would've liked to have seen Clareview Station and the area in the 80s. A concrete platform with a couple of waiting shelters in a then fairly rural part of town. Sad that it wasn't an LRT station but rather the Anthony Henday Drive that's caused development in this area to explode. The extended Clareview Station Dr is open and all the lots along that stretch north of the station have been purchased, although construction hasn't started yet. I wonder why they haven't rerouted 107 and 117 down this new road yet, would easily shave 3 minutes off travel time heading into Clareview Station. The traffic lights at Manning Dr are awful.
EdwardEdm
Active Member
The page is due for an update, and I haven't actually linked to anything yet... but, there are pics of the original station.
AJo
New Member
Describing the far end of Clareview as almost rural in the 80's/early 90's is fairly accurate. I grew up there. The main station building/bus shelter was a big yellow metal box that connected to one end of the platform and really only provided protection from rain and wind. In the winter, unless you were standing directly under a radiant heater it was absolutely freezing in there, some days it felt colder in the shelter than outside of it. In the summer it turned into an easy bake oven.
I disagree however about the development. Was the development fast? No it wasn't. But it was pretty steady. Superstore was the first big box to go in and it slowly built up from there. Both right beside Clareview station and along 50th street.
What kicked it up a notch in my mind was not Henday, but when the housing went in between the station and 36 street. Especially all the condos/apartments.
Henday kicked of all the new stuff at the north east end of Manning for sure. But to my mind that isn't part of the Clareview station complex.
dkazzed
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That's amazing, thanks! Seems as I would have imagined.
The Southern part of Ebbers is within a 10 minute walk from Clareview especially with the extension of Clareview Station Dr. There were three development permits issued that will provide 822 new dwelling units plus underground parking -- no eye sore surface parking. There's also land zoned for commercial. I'm just hoping it feels a little less suburban. Maybe something like Griesbach?
I'm surprised those stacked townhomes between the station and Clareview Rec Centre are over 20 years old, it looks recently built. I'm also surprised the pink condos across the street were built in the late 2000s. The design screams late 80s to early 90s.
AJo
New Member
Its a ten minute walk now.
The west side of Clareview station didn't open till 2001. Before that there was no way to get to that side without going a long way round to what was a blank field/snow dump. Even after it opened it took a few years before development took off on that side.
I think the pink condo's got delayed both by economics and because they had to rebuild one of the north point condo buildings after it burned in a fire in the 90's.
J_gordo
Active Member
They are due to finish the RFP in the next quarter- two JV were shortlisted: capital line design-builders (AECOM, AECON and Ledcor) and PCL-Graham south line solutions (PCL, Graham, Jacobs)
Foolworm
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The post was referring to LRV procurement, which has yet to be announced.
Barnaby
Active Member
Coming soon to Bay/Enterprise station!
More towers in the area may make this possible.
More towers in the area may make this possible.
Gronk!
Senior Member
That "Future Station Retail Mall" signage has been there for literally decades!!!
It's so old that it probably has a municipal historic designation!
It's so old that it probably has a municipal historic designation!
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JuliallThat
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I like the vibe though, time to bring that colour scheme back around!
David A
Senior Member
Everything comes back in fashion, so perhaps it will be soon (or at least probably before the future retail space opens).
Personally I think for public accountability all members of council should be made to stand in front of this sign holding a paper sign with the year on it, take a picture and have to post it on their twitter, or whatever its called now, pages.