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srperrycgy · #**2361** Posted **Dec 15, 2012, 5:48 PM**

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Originally Posted by You Need A Thneed

Just heading out with my kids for a Saddletowne - 69th Street and back joyride. What stations on the west line have a good place to stop for a snack?

Westbrook or Sirocco.

You Need A Thneed · #**2362** Posted **Dec 15, 2012, 5:54 PM**

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Originally Posted by srperrycgy

Westbrook or Sirocco.

Thanks! Which is closer to the platform?

srperrycgy · #**2363** Posted **Dec 15, 2012, 6:00 PM**

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Originally Posted by You Need A Thneed

Thanks! Which is closer to the platform?

About even actually. But you have a small food court at Westbrook.

fusili · #**2364** Posted **Dec 15, 2012, 6:07 PM**

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Originally Posted by You Need A Thneed

Just heading out with my kids for a Saddletowne - 69th Street and back joyride. What stations on the west line have a good place to stop for a snack?

That's a really cool idea. Kids love trains, and it helps them break the stigma of public transit early. Kudos.

You Need A Thneed · #**2365** Posted **Dec 15, 2012, 6:10 PM**

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Originally Posted by fusili

That's a really cool idea. Kids love trains, and it helps them break the stigma of public transit early. Kudos.

Both of my kids are still young enough to ride for free.

srperrycgy · #**2366** Posted **Dec 15, 2012, 6:11 PM**

From the trips I did this week, the little kids are enthralled by the sights along the route.

And some of the parents too. Riding along the elevated guideway shows some great views of the city.

fusili · #**2367** Posted **Dec 15, 2012, 6:22 PM**

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Originally Posted by You Need A Thneed

Both of my kids are still young enough to ride for free.

How young is that? Maybe I'll take my nephews along for a ride sometime.

RyLucky · #**2368** Posted **Dec 15, 2012, 6:36 PM**

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Originally Posted by You Need A Thneed

Thanks! Which is closer to the platform?

Heritage bakery at 37th st and 17th ave (westbrook)

You Need A Thneed · #**2369** Posted **Dec 15, 2012, 7:04 PM**

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Originally Posted by fusili

How young is that? Maybe I'll take my nephews along for a ride sometime.

Under 6 is free.

You Need A Thneed · #**2370** Posted **Dec 15, 2012, 7:05 PM**

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Originally Posted by RyLucky

Heritage bakery at 37th st and 17th ave (westbrook)

Mmmm bakery, maybe I'll walk down there yet.

kw5150 · #**2371** Posted **Dec 15, 2012, 8:54 PM**

We walked to aspen woods from the end of line at 69th and went for food. Its a 5-10 minute walk.

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Originally Posted by You Need A Thneed

Just heading out with my kids for a Saddletowne - 69th Street and back joyride. What stations on the west line have a good place to stop for a snack?

MalcolmTucker · #**2372** Posted **Dec 15, 2012, 9:19 PM**

^ The Ambrose College mini mall has a couple restaurants including a great viet place.

You Need A Thneed · #**2373** Posted **Dec 15, 2012, 9:38 PM**

Loved the line. Stations are nice, Sunalta was my favorite. Now lets get the 203 line under construction.

Chealion · #**2374** Posted **Dec 16, 2012, 2:33 PM**

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Originally Posted by Rusty van Reddick

If you have a Nokia smartphone (Lumia WP8 or WP7.5 or if you're one of the three Canadians with a Symbian Anna or Belle phone), Nokia Transit is a godsend. Every route of Calgary Transit is available. Absolute gold standard for transit apps- and transit routes are one of the mapping options in Nokia Maps too. Then you HAVE Nokia Maps, with lifetime nav and offline options for every map for almost every part of the planet. Destroys Google Maps, one of the best reasons to switch to Windows Phone.

The Nokia maps (Nokia Here) is available for iOS and Android as well.

Any news as to what the city is planning to do for the public art on the line? I've heard the idea floated from John Mar of the last 3 Centre Street lions going to Sunalta, Westbrook, and Sirroco as part of that budget.

Tropics · #**2375** Posted **Dec 16, 2012, 11:24 PM**

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Why do people in Calgary feel the need to pick things apart that are just opened to the public. At least wait a while........fack.

Concerns with the cost cutting and lack of architectural style of one of the centerpoints of a future TOD were made on this forum long before now.

All that can be hoped for now is that the precendent that the city set in Westbrook does not carry through on the entire redevelopment of the area and set TOD's in the city of Calgary off on the wrong foot, making them undesirable eyesores communities would rather not have, instead of architecturally impressive highly desirable central hubs that people want to have near and/or live within.

If you KW really want Calgary to me more of a truly urban city then you NEED these types of things to be built right, they need to be awesome and make people WANT to live in them for more of a reason then it being all they can afford. TOD's need to be built as something that would wow people and make them want to be a part of it, which the conceptual drawings of Westbrook Villiage did, that concept for what a TOD in the City of Calgary could be that the City itself has already marginalized.

TOD's can be a huge hit and really change the nature of Calgary, make alot of high density urban nodes where people choose to live instead of a house in the burbs, but they need to be built right and be made to really attract the people who have the income to make the choice of "house in the burbs or a cool condo in a really awesome looking TOD?"

You NEED to get pretty close to the Westbrook Villiage TOD plan and what is talked about in it.

http://www.calgary.ca/PDA/LUPP/Documents/Publications/westbrook-village-arp.pdf?noredirect=1

If that whole document becomes nothing more then lip service from the City and the end product is a far cry from what that document presents then these TOD's are going to fail and I know that you KW do not want that.

Cage · #**2376** Posted **Dec 16, 2012, 11:34 PM**

I would second the idea of taking young kids on Ctrain as a cheap way of getting active.

Saturday afternoon took the family (wife and 2.5 year old) on wort from 69th to 3rd street. Once downtown toured around the core taking in big tree and the Devonian gardens. Then a quick trip home.

Back in the fall, my wife took daughter to toopy and binoo at Jube. To this day, daughter still talks about taking Ctrain to see toopy.

Yes I have a budding little transit fanatic on my hands.

The under six and free is definitely a great incentive.

Incentives to get families onto Ctrain and transit are definitely a great way to promote transit use. Incentive such as $4 off entrance fee if you took transit. This would be especially attractive at zoo where the train drops off at front door. While some people would say the parking charge is a good incentive. I counter the parking is still very effecient compared to transit because transit is per person while parking is per car.

At a minimum the zoo and let option needs more advertising, especially from the zoo perspective.

Cage · #**2377** Posted **Dec 16, 2012, 11:43 PM**

Thoughts on the west let.

Great line for speed and efficiency. I'm envious of west calgarians.

Tunnelling and sinking the line will pay huge dividends immediately and in the new future.

Fantastic views.

One design failure is the elevators for 69th street parade. It would have been great to have a single elevator between parking the car and getting tithe platform. However the design still requires two elevators. Further the switch backs to get around the parkade elevator are very cumbersome. For example there is a glass wall between the elevator and exit tithe let station. One must go completely around this glass wall and go through two doors.

RicoLance21 · #**2378** Posted **Dec 16, 2012, 11:50 PM**

Is the 69 Ave. parkade structure capable to add more levels above for future growth?

RyLucky · #**2379** Posted **Dec 17, 2012, 5:18 AM**

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Is the 69 Ave. parkade structure capable to add more levels above for future growth?

Doubt it. Anyway, demand for parking might go down if the line is one day extended to 85th st. My bifteck with the parkade is that it interrupts what could otherwise be a straight walking path towards springborough blvd. I hope they don't mind high school kids and other people cutting through.

I think the line is great. I'm getting the sense that most people are pretty impressed, and the few times I've used it, it was fairly busy for the middle of the day (about 1/3 to 1/2 of the seats taken + a handful of straphangers). Has anyone commuted during rush hour? Was it busy? I imagine volumes will increase in January...

freeweed · #**2380** Posted **Dec 17, 2012, 5:52 AM**

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Originally Posted by RyLucky

I think the line is great. I'm getting the sense that most people are pretty impressed, and the few times I've used it, it was fairly busy for the middle of the day (about 1/3 to 1/2 of the seats taken + a handful of straphangers). Has anyone commuted during rush hour? Was it busy? I imagine volumes will increase in January...

Straphangers - took me a second to realize this wasn't some horrible typo. I love it!

During rush hour, at least heading west, it can be very busy. I've seen people cramming onto the trains just like they do the other lines.