City of Calgary exploring Red Line LRT extension further south
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The City of Calgary is seeking feedback on a four kilometre Red Line LRT expansion south with two new stations at Silverado and 210 Avenue South.
The City of Calgary is moving ahead with a functional rail study on extending the Red Line LRT further south, and is gathering feedback on the proposal.
The scope of the study is a four-kilometre expansion of the Red Line from Somerset-Bridlewood south across the ring road, with two new stations at Silverado and 210 Avenue South.
According to city officials, the extended line would serve over 55,000 people in the communities of Silverado, Belmont, Pine Creek, Chaparral, Walden and Legacy, as well as future communities southwest of MacLeod Trail.
“Calgary is growing rapidly,” said Liming Sun, the city’s project manager on the study. “The goal of the transit project is to meet the transit needs for the existing and the future to serve people and improve the customer service experience.”
The study is aimed to determine the right-of-way of the LRT line, the preferred alignment, station location and design, as well as identify any environmental impacts and mitigation solutions in the area.
It will also look into a new LRT maintenance and storage facility at 210 Avenue, which the city said is critical for further expansion of the transit network.
“It’s to help keep up the capacity of the overall LRT system to serve more transit needs into the future,” Sun told Global News.
The City of Calgary is seeking feedback on the proposal through a survey on its website, which asks Calgarians a variety of questions about which proposed station they’d use, and how they would access the stations.
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