Posted Jun 21, 2012, 1:59 AM
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power to the people!
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Join Date: Oct 2008
Location: Crescent Heights, Calgary
Posts: 864
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Cut and cover up the north hill may not be feasible with the maximum track grade being around 6%. Outside of this area, it's doable.
Having the line terminate at the zoo would cause too many rush-hour problems. Trains are generally at capacity at his point from the north-east. Merging with the 202 line at this point would overburden 7th.
It's called Park n' Ride. It is not "CRITICAL". A good collector system to the station is.
The Nose Creek alignment , while cheap in the short-term, does little little in the role of actually moving people efficiently. Why would anyone want to take a collector bus from say James Fowler High School to (theoretically) Greenview station, and then the train downtown. This doubles the distance travelled and the time taken as opposed to jumping on the 4. Talk about wasting money! The inner city stations along this route wold see little use.
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