Alberta Provincial Railroad Network: Taking The A-Train

[Xelebes]

So the bullet train between Edmonton and Calgary International Airport is dead and something larger and yet more sensible is in the planning stage:

Alberta government announces 'master plan' for railway development

The Alberta government has laid out the path ahead for an ambitious passenger railway system it says "has incredible potential" for the province.

On Monday, Premier Danielle Smith and Transportation Minister Devin Dreeshen unveiled the UCP government's passenger rail master plan, a series of steps it will take to "build the optimal passenger rail system for the province."

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[rdaner]

I am in shock! Never in a million years did I think that this would be coming! Fantastic.

Are many of the railway right of ways in the Province still existing?

I asked this before concerning HSR but now it applies to commuter rail. Where in Calgary and Edmonton would central rail stations go?

[Xelebes]

In Edmonton, it would be relatively easy. You can make it difficult and choose any other location than Blatchford Park or make it easy and go with Blatchford Park.

[Edmonton_Ian]

The site on the UCP map was actually weirdly a new station just below Telus Plaza near where the downtown gondola station was proposed... Another rumored location is still Government Centre Station approximately where that design proposal that made the few rounds was located... I.e. South of 97th Avenue, West of 109th... Personally I love that location or an underground one on the site of Canterra Centre aka Save On Food's strip mall aka Railtown South. A new LRT station could be built there as part of the long-planned but unbuilt downtown loop with a new station for MacEwan at 105 Avenue at 107 Street... Probably at surface then it's just TWO blocks til the existing Ice District Station that is still woefully named after a University nearby but not at its actual location. Close but no cannabis, cigar as it were...