Green Line Stage 1 - Building the Core

This video shows the initial stage of construction for the Green Line - from 16 Avenue N in the community of Crescent Heights to 126 Avenue S.E. in the community of Shepard.
---
Visit The City of Calgary's website: www.calgary.ca
Subscribe to The City of Calgary's UA-cam channel: bit.ly/1lg0ACm
The City of Calgary -- working together to create and sustain a vibrant, healthy, safe and caring community.
Like us on Facebook: / cityofcalgary
Follow us on Twitter: / cityofcalgary
Follow us on Instagram: / cityofcalgary
Follow us on LinkedIn: / city-of-calgary
View photos on Flickr: www.flickr.com/...
Read our Calgary City News Blog: www.calgarycity...
Subscribe to The City of Calgary Newsroom: newsroom.calgar...
Download our mobile apps: www.calgary.ca/...
The City of Calgary is committed to posting informative videos that are relevant to Calgarians and the surrounding communities.

[@Hustlervickers]

As the City of Calgary gets bigger road traffic will increase, as a city of over a Million people do you not want to plan for the future. Wouldn’t it be a smart idea and a safe idea to remove all level crossings and any interaction between Pedestrians, Cars/Truck and Trains that meet at the transit lines?
Having trains lines running down the center of main road is a terrible idea, removing a lane of traffic on an already tight road for space will make things worse for public safety. Plus you throw in level crossing at ever road intersection makes me think the City of Calgary and the city planners have no idea what you are doing. Having to stop at level crossing will cause bottle necks at intersections, causing loss of productivity across the city and not to mention the safety of the public and road users. How many deaths will there be because First Responders are stuck in traffic because of congestion caused by level crossing. Have you not studied the traffic flow and congestion caused by the existing rail lines in the city, have you not heard of the deaths caused by pedestrians being hit by trains. Why are the public being hit by trains, it’s because stations are designed wrong, intersections are congested and you allow traffic to come in close proximity to trains.
Google Melbourne and the removal of Level Crossing, google Singapore and platform safety barriers, if you want more people to travel on the transit system make it better, make it safer for all not just pedestrians. It may cost more but it will SAVE LIVES and you grandchildren will thank you

[@kilo7941]

Agreed, they should continue to do high floors.

[@akramyoussef1380]

I mean, the blue line works perfectly on 45th street, and this is the same idea.

[@GaryM-d6i]

Get busy. 5 billion in the bank ready set go. 20 000 construction jobs

[@manyfrom1]

Reminds me of Sims 5 music 😂

[@GPT-4Business]

One argument the city used against building an 8th ave station is that the angle of ascent from the Bow river to 16th would be so shallow that the depth of the station would be uneconomical. This rendering shows the line running close to the surface and then descending at 7th ave, making a station possible. Either this rendering is inaccurate or the city's argument is flawed.

[@caesarzhang1778]

Chuck Norris I would consider the rendering inaccurate. It’s a quite steep drive on the center street up from center street bridge (which is at least 10 meters above the river) to 16th ave, and the LRT would go beneath the river which means it has at least 10 more meters to descend.

[@iblard]

I hope future residential and commercial developments around some stations that seem to be in the middle of nothing.

[@AdrianCalgary]

Awesome project

[@iseiyoulaitre]

Absolute waste of money while putting more demands on utilities and infrastructure. Meanwhile we have crumbling water mains, potholes, and broken sidewalks.