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Our Background

To bring better transit in and around the Calgary metro area. Which will connect cities, Townes such as Airdrie, Chestermere, Cochrane, and much more. To make it where if you live in Calgary or it metro area you won't have to own a car to move around easily 

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  • using existing rail right of way

  • Having a station in or around downtown 

  • Connect with other local transit infrastructure to create better-integrated transport network and other proposed transit planes Having a station in or around downtown 

  • The stations and the rolling stock will have wifi 

  • The project will be p3 which means it will be a private-public partnership, which will mean half of it will come to form the private and other public and the public will get the other half

  • Many of the LRT will have cheap affordable houses and shops on it and shops near that will be on the land TTA owns

Routos

  • The Red line would have an extension to High river and would have a stop at Okotoks, Silverado, 210 Ave SW, 218 Ave SE

  • The blue line would go to 85 Street SW on the South end The North end will go to Crossiorn mill map and will have a stop at Stonegate, 128 Ave N, Country hill Bv, and a stop at 88 Ave N

  • The Green line will go its full extension and go to Airdrie

  • The light blue line will go from Strathmore to Cochrane 

  • There will be 3 circle lines one that will go into the inner part of Calgary, the inner city, and the other will go to the other part of Calgary

  • There will be 4 streetcar routes that will be close to downtown or will be in downtown

  • There will be 4 commuter rail lines that will go to Airdrie, Cochrane, Chestermere, and High river

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The Pension Fund That Bought Trains
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Paige Saunders

The Pension Fund That Bought Trains

How a pension fund ended up proposing an infrastructure project New album: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qp7KB5oF4rE Extra Content: https://www.patreon.com/PaigeSaunders Mastodon: https://masto.canadiancivil.com/@paige Peertube: https://video.canadiancivil.com/a/paige Get On The Fediverse! https://fedihost.co/ ________________ References & Sources ________________ [1] https://rem.info/en/news/6-maps-help-understand-rem#:~:text=With%20its%20total%20length%20of,of%20the%20Greater%20Montr%C3%A9al%20area. [2] https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/toronto-subway#:~:text=The%20Toronto%20subway%20system%2C%20including,total%20length%20of%2076.5%20km. [3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_North_American_rapid_transit_systems_by_ridership [4] https://www.pionline.com/article/20151210/ONLINE/151219992/10-largest-canadian-public-pension-funds-assets-top-1-trillion-report [5] https://web.archive.org/web/20110706202230/http://www.richmond.ca/__shared/assets/Canada_Line_Info_Bulletin_1413140.pdf [6] https://www.politico.com/states/new-york/albany/story/2018/03/15/final-cost-of-tappan-zee-bridge-could-blow-past-budget-317750 [7] https://www.wsp.com/en-GL/careers [8] Montreal 1970 length, Toronto, Vancouver, Calgary, Edmonton, Ottawa vs 1980, 1990, 2000, 2010, 2020 [9] https://www.lapresse.ca/actualites/grand-montreal/201301/20/01-4613207-un-train-leger-sur-le-nouveau-pont-champlain.php [10] ​​https://rem.info/fr/actualites/la-vraie-facture-du-rem [11] https://rem.info/en/deux-montagnes-line [12] https://ici.radio-canada.ca/nouvelle/537141/tunnel-mont-royal-etude-securitaire-amt [13] https://rem.info/en/deux-montagnes-line [14] https://plus.lapresse.ca/screens/e5f117c7-6634-43e8-aecb-1f275d9d4155__7C___0.html [15] https://www.legisquebec.gouv.qc.ca/en/document/cs/R-25.02 [16] https://library.pppknowledgelab.org/documents/4699/download “Land acquisition can be one of the most challenging aspects of developing a PPP project. Delays in obtaining land have created significant hurdles or even blocked some promising PPP projects.” [17] https://www.artm.quebec/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/GU_GuideApplication_ed07_20220211_va.pdf “Transportation dues zones correspond to a circle having a one-kilometre radius from each station of the REM” [18] https://www.artm.quebec/grands-projets/reseau-express-metropolitain-rem/ [19] https://rem.info/en/partners Q $1.283/18.6% C $1.283/18.6% HQ $0.295/4.3%, Casse: $4.039/58.5%): [20] https://rem.info/sites/default/files/document/2018-04-23-SummaryEN-AgreementFR_0.pdf (p13) [21] https://www.institutionalinvestor.com/article/b1505qtb21m06x/no-longer-the-dumb-money [22] https://rem.info/sites/default/files/document/2018-04-23-SummaryEN-AgreementFR_0.pdf
Boomers Should Love Transit
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Paige Saunders

Boomers Should Love Transit

Prep Work/P3s: How governments lost the ability to manage infrastructure projects until old money came up with a solution Previous Video: https://youtu.be/vKAl6DOcASc Next Video: https://youtu.be/QjY8L39zOh8 Extra Content: https://www.patreon.com/PaigeSaunders Mastodon: https://masto.canadiancivil.com/@paige Peertube: https://video.canadiancivil.com/a/paige Get On The Fediverse! https://fedihost.co/ ________________ References & Sources ________________ [1] https://rem.info/en/news/south-shore-preparatory-work-gets-underway [2] https://www.herrenknecht.com/de/referenzen/referenzendetail/metro-guangzhou/ [3] https://www.railjournal.com/signalling/guangzhou-metro-cbtc-contract-awarded/ [4] https://www.robbinstbm.com/projects/guangzhou-metro-guangfo-line/ [5] https://journal.hep.com.cn/fem/CN/article/downloadArticleFile.do?attachType=PDF&id=19623 [6] https://www.structuremag.org/?p=10604 [7] https://www2.deloitte.com/global/en/pages/infrastructure-and-capital-projects/articles/canadian-public-private-partnerships-report.html [8] https://www.policyalternatives.ca/sites/default/files/uploads/publications/Nova%20Scotia%20Office/2020/10/Hidden%20dangers%20of%20P3s.pdf [9] https://columbiainstitute.eco/research/public-private-partnerships-in-bc-update-2018/ “A recent 2018 report by the Columbia Institute confirmed the higher costs of P3s” [10] https://www.institutionalinvestor.com/article/b1505qtb21m06x/no-longer-the-dumb-money [11] https://www.cdpq.com/en/about-us/history [12] https://www.on-sitemag.com/infrastructure/infrastructure-bank-makes-first-investment-loaning-montreal-rem-project-1-3b/1003960045/ [13] https://www.legisquebec.gouv.qc.ca/en/document/cs/C-2 [14] Initial: https://rem.info/en/partners https://www.on-sitemag.com/infrastructure/proposed-extension-to-new-montreal-rem-would-add-23-more-stations-cost-10b/1003971265/ $6.3bn Q $1.283 C $1.283 HQ $0.295, Caisse: $3.439bn (91.3%) 2019: https://www.newswire.ca/news-releases/rem-optimization-agreement-concluded-with-nouvlr-822175318.html $6.5bn (94.2%) 2021: https://montreal.ctvnews.ca/rem-light-rail-project-price-tag-rises-due-to-pandemic-complications-1.5455795 $6.9bn (100%) [15] https://montrealgazette.com/news/local-news/century-old-explosives-detonate-in-mount-royal-tunnel-rem [16] https://montreal.ctvnews.ca/rem-light-rail-project-price-tag-rises-due-to-pandemic-complications-1.5455795 [17] https://plus.lapresse.ca/screens/e5f117c7-6634-43e8-aecb-1f275d9d4155__7C___0.html
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