LRT Expansion Planning

[Barnaby]

Now hear me out, it's almost 7 metres wide, the trains are about 2.6m wide? We can make it fit. We're going to have to shuffle lanes arounds, move the SUP over, move the counterflow lane over, but it'll work.

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An issue with this would be the extreme elevation change from the Yellowhead guideway portion to this underpass. The 97th Street route wouldn't make sense at grade, so it would need to go back up to a guideway immediately past this crossing.

The 100m crossing wouldn't be that expensive, and it would allow for complete grade separation from Blatchford to 153 Avenue, where at grade LRT will probably be preferred by most stakeholders.

 

[dkazzed]

We would unfortunately have the at grade intersection at 127 St but it can go up above grade afterward up to beyond 137 Ave. I think between Griesbach and Evansdale/Dickenfield should be at grade, and then grade separate at 153 Ave. Maybe take out the left turn at 127 Ave and turn it into a three rights configuration to make that left.

The 100m crossing will definitely be a lot less expensive than the 500m+ crossing.