Calgary Transit's West LRT Route Animation UPDATED!

The west LRT route animation has been updated, check out new views updated station renderings. Get ready to ride the new line December 5 2012! Check out www.westlrt.ca for more information!

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[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

[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...

[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.......

[buddhistgangstamonk]

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

[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

[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.

[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

[Scoinsoffaterocks]

@MrIntangibleasset

I wrote this 8 months ago...

[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.

[TheEZPAXIIChannel]

@SilvaliorFox Siemens SD-160 actually.

[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.

[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

[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.