Calgary Transit's West LRT Route Animation UPDATED!

[Junokaii]

As much as I like the Westbrook Station.. the platforms, look kinda small for the population it is serving, and the population in the future that it will be serving. Cause when you see the Westbrook Development Plan, it says it want's to incorporate like 5-6 more high rises there, if it is supporting that many people, I can only imagine the crowding that station will endure

[AlbertaGamer]

@ 1:45 - to the passengers on the platform - the train was right in front of you and you still missed it. Don't you feel silly?

[TheEZPAXIIChannel]

Westbrook station should have been more beautiful but its good.

[Hypergalactica]

The thing that gets me is how all but two of the stations have the platforms on the outside of the cars with space between them, similar to Shawnessy and 39th ave. I always thought that was a very inefficient design, as people would have to wait for the train to cross in order to change platforms.

[Historymaker2001]

@Hypergalactica Side-loading platforms require less open space than a center loading platform, since side-loading platforms since track splits have to happen well in advance of a center-loading platform. Side-loading platforms do not require the tracks to diverge, thus they only require extra space for the platform itself

[Scoinsoffaterocks]

If only Toronto was smart enough about transit.

Our incredibly ignorant mayor, Rob Ford, doesn't even know the basics of transit. He is incredibly stupid I swear. You have no idea what he is doing over here.

[MrIntangibleasset]

@Scoinsoffaterocks What the heck are you talking about? Toronto is getting the largest transit project in North America, the Ellington ave line. They've already started it.

[Scoinsoffaterocks]

@MrIntangibleasset

I wrote this 8 months ago...

[Junokaii]

@MrIntangibleasset Kinda needing it when that place is exploding in Immigrant population and will have Canadians be a minority in its own city. Sad. Oh well.

[oneeyedgeek]

I live near 14th St and go by the raised section and the Sunalta station all of the time. The tracks look great, but the station looks like it's about 30 feet high. I hope there are elevators because I am in no shape to be climbing all those stairs. And the escalators suck because they are always out of order. Can't wait to see the Westbrook station too.

[fj311]

Six-car trains! Ha! What will they think of next? A bus system that actually works?!

I'm all for proper transit in Calgary, but compared to other cities our size, our system's a bad joke, and this project isn't helping much. The far southwest is an affluent area... you'd see much larger ridership if this project connected a low-income area to the Foothills(i.e., people who would depend on transit rather than those who simply choose it).

[cprailes44ac]

Sure would be cool to watch Canadian Pacific from Suntalta Station! Great Animation.

[MrBurrns9]

i love it make it faster as soon as possible love u calgary, calgary is in progress :)

[MrBurrns9]

awesome when it will be done , plz work hard to make it aas soon as possible :) i loved the subway one :)

[oshawa13]

i like the raised section.too bad the whole system is'nt like that.

[MrSahibzada2010]

Love the underground animations :)

[1uen]

even better animations!

my 3 year old bro is always a fan of calgary transit ROFL

[SilvaliorFox]

i find this video a bit funny with 2012 on the train as the 2012 train is a Siemens U2 something train

[thebuffalodude]

@SilvaliorFox yes your right

[Historymaker2001]

@SilvaliorFox Could be a reference to the year in which the West is expected to open...

[TheEZPAXIIChannel]

@SilvaliorFox Siemens SD-160 actually.

[gsgeek540]

@SilvaliorFox @thebuffalodude First off, your facts are off about the train. It is a Siemens SD160 Train...not a Duwag U2. 2nd off, when this animation was made in spring/summer 2009, with the updated animation being developed fall 2009, the newer model SD160s hadn't even been ordered yet, hence the use of an 06/07 model in said annimation

[buddhistgangstamonk]

westbrook station will be the sickest station. But too bad all the homeless will go to all those areas now..

[Junokaii]

@buddhistgangstamonk man those morons go everywhere. i wanna kick the shit out of them all so much.

[garycalgary]

@buddhistgangstamonk now that's a smug comment. I suggest you leave calgary and run away if you are so frightened of people who don't have a place to sleep while you lie your head on your pillow safely at night

[garycalgary]

finger snapping music 

[trainfan101]

Edmonton LRT formula = plan, plan, review, plan, whine

Calgary LRT formula = plan, build ride, reduce traffic congestion

[Junokaii]

@trainfan101 lmfao so true. theirs is like a 3rd of ours. i think they're finally catching on though.

[NammerzX]

there's only one thing i don't like, is that for two times along the line, the tracks goes across a road, like not elevated or tunnelled, but just crosses the part before a four-stop intersection...hopefully those two sections won't be the cause of accidents and mishaps...

[Junokaii]

@NammerzX i know i was thinking exactly same thing. cause those don't look like small roads like 45th street. they're like 3 lane roads so i agree with you

[Junokaii]

One thing I don't like here is... Why don't they just tunnel it from 11th street instead of going right over top of it and getting in the way of traffic?

Another place is right after Sirocco station there's what looks like a huge roadway intersection... that DEFINATELY should be either tunnelled or having it go over top or soemthing.

I know it sounds a LOT more expensive, but if yous pend more now, you won't have to spend even MORE later on in the future.

[dmdumba]

It'll be interesting to see whether its worth the investment. There seems to be a LOT more tunneling and trenching in the works for this leg, probably more than all the other legs combined. What do you think about the raised up portion from downtown to Bow Trail?-Ideally its cheaper than tunneling but I think it'll look like an eyesore..

[thebuffalodude]

I like the raised section, reminds me of Vancouver's Sky train. West LRT would never happen if there was more tunneling involved as long as the raised sections are not in residential areas its not that bad...

[thebuffalodude]

The original line was built in 3 years in 1978. So there should not be an issue for completion December 2010. The same contractor built the Canada line in Vancouver and that line opened ahead of schedule

[AlbertaGamer]

If the train only waits 3 seconds at the stations and takes off again, people will get pretty annoyed.

ROFL

I can't wait to ride this train just for fun.

[thebuffalodude]

The trains should wait 3 seconds, get in, get out and go!!!! Miss the train too bad, there will be another one.......

[garycalgary]

@AlbertaGamer

How about leaving the car at home and making the LRT part of your daily commute?

[SPS148669]

In Edmonton there planning a west and Southeast LRT as well but ours are seem to be designed in a lowfloor streetcar style street running format. I think they are better off building BRT if there going for just a streetcar like system.