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Originally Posted by 240glt
^thank god Edmonton buried the downtown LRT right off the bat. I can't even imagine the nightmare of doing it after the fact.
We're only 20 years behind the times now
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Mind you, the main reason the Stephen Avenue Metro was originally DOA circa 1980, and the main reason the Stephen Avenue Metro is going to put future capital budgets into a
world of hurt, is the unsteady ground beneath downtown Calgary. For all practical purposes, Calgary's core was built on top of an overgrown sandbar, and the water table sits much closer to the surface than is the case even once you get out of the Bow River floodplain. Maybe some of the geologists and civil engineers lurking on the board can discuss this issue in further detail than I can, oi wot?