The Green Line is the City of Calgary's next light rail transit (LRT) line. It is also the largest infrastructure investment in our city’s history with $4.9 billion in commitments from the Government of Canada, Government of Alberta and City of Calgary.
Construction is underway creating jobs today. Construction of Phase 1 will generate 20,000 jobs with opportunities for local contractors, suppliers and businesses as we build: -13 stations -18 km of LRT track - 3 park and ride facilities - 1 km of elevated track - 3 km of tunnel track - 4 LRT bridge structures - 1 LRV maintenance and storage facility
The Green Line LRT will play an important role in shaping the City’s future. It is both a transit system and a platform for long-term city building. This will encourage redevelopment and investment opportunities in Calgary businesses and communities.
The Green Line and future passenger rail Centre Station will really transform the Culture + Entertainment District, by making it much easier for residents and tourists to access. So many great destinations located within walking distance. It will be a game changer for Calgary.
It was Mayor Ross Alger was instrumental in getting the C-Train built, yet no mention of him ? only later Mayor Klein who was Elected just before completion and took honor's for doing basically nothing !
Please keep going with these updates! These are a great way of keeping everyone in the loop with the project and showing off tangible evidence of its progress!
1:22 These CAF trains have WAY less seating than the current LRT cars which will suck if those seats have to be given to pregnant, elderly, or disabled individuals first. Also, it looks way more cramped in there than the other LRT cars we have in service.
I was a bus driver for the City of Calgary in 1981 and saw a lot of issues with the C-train (Crash-train). Accidents, derailments, fire, that never made the news. Seems King Klein had a lot of pull with the local media (he was previously a journalist).
How long after is opened did it take for the c-train to suffer it first derailment. About 15 seconds, The opening ceremony signaled the opening of the line by driving a train through a ribbon. the new Mayor Ralph Klein was at the control of said train and he was a little aggressive driving the train. The result was the moment he hit the first switch the train derailed. That incident was quietly swept under the rug.
I really enjoyed this blast from the past! Especially seeing old landmarks, businesses, etc. that are now a distant memory. I liked that that there were a few tunnels and elevated portions to minimize interfaces with motor vehicle traffic (with the exceptions at 25/36/50/58/61 Ave). It's too bad they didn't spend the money to further reduce at-grade intersections. I can't count how many vehicle-vs-train accidents have happened over the years, especially in the NE along 36 Street. I'd love to see a documentary on the underground tunnel under City Hall and along Stephen Avenue, and the viability of that. I remember Mayor Bronconnier putting lots of energy/money into reviving/developing the tunnel for use on the west leg, before the floods of 2013.
It was later found that the wheel flange profile on the wheels supplied by Simmons were not compatible with the std AREA 100lb #8 switch points that were installed on the South leg. Many derailments were encountered when maintenance on the downtown tunnel, near Stampede Station, forced the use of single track running. Modified Samson style points were developed jointly between the City of Calgary, Pacific Northern Rail Contractors, and EGB Manufacturing of Cochrane Alberta. Many sets of these points are still in service on the South leg.
Would help if you built platforms in areas that had something around them... (Millican Station...???) NOTHING THERE GUYS!!!!!!!! OPEN YOUR EYES!!! Oh, yea also all the people that were evicted because of OGDEN STATION... SMART.... NOT!!! Those people could afford to live there... now... probably moved onto the street to live.
Us, too, @tghepburn1390! Unfortunately, the cable pulling process of this project when they run the wires is happening at a future date. Thanks for the great feedback.
Calgary Mayor Rod Sykes Council is to thank for the first leg of the LRT being approved in 1976. He’s still in Calgary at a youthful 94 years old. He also wants to #recallgondek
Calgary (and Alberta more broadly) were hit hard in 2009 when Obama opened up fracking in the US. Right after the already downturned market caused by the 2008 financial crash. Within about 2 years the price of oil went from over $100/barrel to less than $40. The oil sands projects all stalled as that stuff is too expensive to produce, and the traditional oil and gas was far less profitable than it had been only a couple years earlier. That finally started to recover by the mid-late 2010s, just in time for the next double-whammy of increasing climate awareness around the world and then covid. The former in particular is going to be challenging as it means the entire oil and gas industry is on a bit of a death spiral. It's not dead yet but it's only a matter of time. I've been saying for years that Alberta needs to diversify its industry, but as I'm just some nobody on the internet (who no longer even lives in the province), they've been stubbornly unwilling to listen to my pleas. Instead they just keep doubling down over and over again on trying to keep their singularly prioritized industry hobbling along in a world that is becoming less and less interested in the products they're selling, and doing irreparable harm to both the environment and their own economy in the meantime as they funnel more and more public dollars toward subsidizing no-longer-competitive businesses in the hopes that they will recover "some day".
It’s a shame the city did not truly see growth in the LRT only making the stations downtown and some other stations long enough for 3 cars, that really put a stranglehold on its ability to carry its potential to 5 cars. The city had to rebuild all new platforms 10 years ago unlike Edmontons who opened 4 years earlier and were all 5 car capable
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So many mixed emotions going on here. So happy that Calgary in always full of innovation and firsts. But the green line is not compatible with the current LRT and so that sucks. And the line is using an underground network that several engineers say because of the water table in Calgary is going to cost more than 1000x that the current project budget to maintain. We need a connection to the airport first for us to be a world class city. We may need the green line but how the project is going forward it is not sustainable for Calgary.
@@CtO-nj9uuI have mixed emotions about your comment. Yes it was not 100% well thought out of but YVRs is not all that and a bag of chips either. Vancouver's I believed was one of the best in the country when I was young as I remember taking it from Surrey Place to downtown with no issues but it took out a lot of money and homes of lower income families to build and caused more issues with the people who now almost live on the train system now. I seen a woman mix a 2L of coke with a bottle of vodka in the middle of the sky train, then offered it to my 11 year old cousin to take a couple of drinks. (In 2003) from an engineering view it took almost 20 years to finish the Canada line. No city gets it right 100% but the BART has made their system look good from an engineering perspective but sadly the safety has completely collapsed in the last 15 years.
