Data Project: North-Central LRT Alternatives

Here’s a quick Easter update for the data project. The addition to the files (at the usual place) is an alternative alignment for Calgary’s proposed North-Central LRT alignment. This alternative would take the CTrain underground from the Bow River right up to Beddington Trail while tunneling under Centre Street North. It would also serve as a functional extension of the Southeast LRT which would otherwise end at an Eau Claire subway station.

The route and station locations were largely inspired by work done over on TransitCamp by Peter Schryvers. You can find those articles over on CivicCamp. I will note that I took artistic liberties with the station names and presumed that the line would otherwise follow the Calgary Transit route past Stoney Trail (up to 150th Avenue North).

Data Project: Calgary Transit Layers

Funded stations on the Under-Construction West LRT Expansion

This is only a small step towards building a full transit layers package. So far, the only features included are placemarks for current and future (funded) CTrain stations. The full package will include the lines as well as future planned stations, plus information on each point about which routes they are serviced by and whether or not they are in the free fare zone. It will not include bus stops or maintenance facilities (you can find all the bus stops on Google Earth already, and there’s far too many for me to contemplate making an alternate version of those right now).

You can find the transit package in the usual place (hint: over there on the links sidebar).

Update (April 9, 2011)

The transit package has been restructured into three categories:  1) current system, 2) future additions (funded), and 3) future additions (proposed). Colours have been altered slightly for easier viewing with other Google Earth layers (especially the roads), and the track (line) segments are now included as well.