NC LRT Advocacy Group

[mooky]

Between Deerfoot Trail, and the mandate of this city to leave green edges on natural areas, Nose Creek is a bad deal for a NC link. Deerfoot presents a giant obstacle due to it being a provincial road, and IIRC from the previous discussion about Cross Iron Mills, no entrances/exits from a provincial highway onto private roadways.... therefore unless you create new interchanges, you'd just be bottlenecking deerfoot along the existing plugged arteries further. Not to mention, its a pretty skinny parcel of land in a lot of respects, with a valley-like gradient to its topology, making development difficult. Not impossible, but difficult.

That said, if BRT is supposed to be used as an introduction to LRT service, why the 301N BRT route doesn't scream "SE-NC up Center street" is beyond me. I think it might have something to do with the the cost and potential train-wreck to a political career if drumming up public support for the expense isn't done correctly, and well, this city council is at the mercy of the Calgary Fishwrap (to pick on them, but they aren't alone in this regard) who sometimes portray an issue solely in terms of up front dollars, and not the payback or later cost for doing something half-assed in the first place.