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Originally Posted by dleung
Not that I'm jealous or anything, but some of these new stations in edmonton/calgary/ottawa look real fancy and spacious, very much unlike the Canada line in Vancouver... so does the ridership justify it?
Like this one looks more like a park and ride, than an actual alternative to private automobile.
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IIRC, they pegged the initial ridership of the West LRT at around 40,000 trips a day, which is a conservative estimate. The suburbs at the end of this line are very low density, because they are building into areas that were, until annexations in the 2000s, were rural acreages. There is some fantastic TOD potential at the Westbrook site though, which is pictured above.
This is one of the renderings for the densities envisioned in the Westbrook ARP for the station area surrounding the LRT platform.
And an accompanying map to illustrate the desired building heights...
The Sunalta ARP was also amended in 2009 to include concepts for additional density around that station...
