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Old Posted Feb 6, 2010, 7:50 PM
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Originally Posted by mersar View Post
While it does seem somewhat possible to me, its about 1.6km from where the LRT and CP/CN tracks diverge (right at the north edge of the Ogden community/north edge of the CP Ogden yard). Due to the distance any track to it would need to be double to accommodate trains going either way at the same time, plus probably a couple hundred million for the garage itself. and it would use only a fraction of the entire site, you could build a dozen plus buildings the same size as the entire Anderson garage end to end and still not even cover the entire Sarcee yard.
Fraction of the Sarcee Yards site is all you would need to support operations and maintenance for the 203. Long term, though, for an expanded city-wide fleet supporting additional routes over and above the 203, Sarcee Yards allows the necessary room to centralise and to grow over thirty years.
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