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Originally Posted by sober2ndthought
Yep your right. What about Edmonton, there were many more.
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The Northern portions of the NE Line (McKnight-Westwinds - Franklin Station) in Calgary pretty much identical to the route Eglinton will travel. I can't find a good video of it but here are a few which show it:
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Pick the segment outside Downtown Core that have the most at-grade crossings:
Calgary (Whitehorn - Franklin): 2.2 (1.2) crossings per km
Edmonton (Health Science - Century Park): 2.2 (0.8) crossings per km
Eglinton (Victoria Park - Kennedy): 3.2 (1.9) crossings per km
And from the original LRT plan in Vancouver:
Evergreen (Lougheed - Douglas): 2.0 (0.9) crossings per km
() denotes major crossing. Note that Eglinton's plan have way more crossings compared to any of the existing or planned line.
And regarding Evergreen Line.. there are 13 major crossings for the 11km of the route. One of them is already grade separated from the original proposal. After the project was approved and construction was soon to begin, they found out that its not feasible to run 2 crossings at grade (which I agree), so they build both crossings underground and increase the cost of the project. For the 10 remaining major crossings, the train would only have
partial signal priority for 5 of them (the train
may stop at intersections, or they will held at station longer,
for up to two minutes, to wait for the light)... And that's when the project starting to fall apart...
Hopefully TC can do better than that...