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WHAT'S HAPPENING IN THE CENTRE CITY ZONE?

The Centre City zone includes the communities of Eau Claire, Downtown, Chinatown and Beltline.

With the future development of Green Line this means that the North Central BRT service will need to adapt. This presents us with an opportunity to explore what improvements are needed to existing service to ensure it contintues to operate in a convenient and efficient way.

The North Central BRT is the active project in this zone.

What is the North Central BRT?

The North Central BRT Study will consider improvements from downtown along the existing Centre Street and Harvest Hills Boulevard route to 160th Avenue North. Improvements will benefit transit customers by providing a more direct, reliable service and customer experience by upgrading the existing BRT route up Centre Street to a MAX BRT. MAX provides riders with maximum convenience, maximum reliability, maximum comfort, and maximum efficiency to get transit riders where they need to go.

Calgary Transit customers have consistently told us that reliability, safety, value for money/quality and convenience are some of the most important aspects of their transit trip. MAX BRT provides customers with:

  • Convenience – fewer stops, signal priority, queue jumps, dedicated lanes, next bus arrival time displays.
  • Travel time and reliability – use of transit priority infrastructure gets customers to destinations faster and more reliably.
  • Comfort and safety – enhanced lighting, heated shelters, larger platforms.
  • Connections – access to more major destinations, and fewer transfers to get to final destinations.

Bow River Bridge

The Bow River Bridge also touches the Centre City zone, however because this project is of interest to Calgarians near and far, there is a separate engagement process for this project. Please click here to learn more and get involved.


Extensive feedback we’ve heard in the past will be used as we continue functional planning .

Through our engagement in this phase we were looking to:

  • Examine the best locations for stations to provide access to key destinations in your community
  • Explore your BRT service priorities and desires for amenity improvements
  • Learn how you currently use and access transit service in your community

For more detailed information on these projects, please ensure you check out the project main page.

MAPS

STUDY AREA MAP

project study area from 160 Avenue in the North to 12 Avenue SW downtown, from 14 street on the west end and deerfoot on the east end.

Potential BRT improvements that were presented to Council in July 2020 and that are under investigation.

BRT CONSIDERATIONS

In the Centre City we are considering both longer term options with dedicated infrastructure as well as peak hour designation of curb lanes for transit. Click through the image gallery below for more details.

Note: Cross-sections above were created with Streetmix.


We are investigating queue jumps as an optimization option. The image below show examples of various queue jumps.

Queue jump lanes are reserved for buses at signalized intersections. Buses enter their own lane and get an advanced green light before other vehicles at the intersection, allowing them to get ahead of traffic and eliminate congestion delays.

From November 23 through December 13, 2020 we were engaging Calgarians and collecting input to inform our functional plans. This phase was about hearing about your ideas and challenges before plans are developed.

In this phase of engagement we hosted:

  • Two Public Information sessions on November 26 & 28
    • If you were unable to attend an information session, watch the November 26 session here.
  • Four zone specific workshops on December 1, 2, 3 & 5.

Feedback gathered in this phase of engagement will be used to help inform concepts and plans that we will bring back to Calgarians for feedback and comments in 2021. 

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NORTH CENTRAL BRT

EXPLORING BRT IN THE DOWNTOWN

The purpose of these questions is to gather input to evaluate the trade-offs and benefits of the different alignment and station considerations in the Downtown to be able to balance project decisions with the community needs in mind.

There are three areas for you to provide input on it this section.

UNDERSTANDING BRT SERVICES & AMENITIES

Click "start questions" to share your ideas on a series of questions related to the North Central BRT

EVALUATE ENGAGEMENT

NEXT STEPS

All input provided will be analyzed by The City and summarized in a What We Heard Report that will be shared back with the community.

The project team will continue their technical analysis and studies over the coming months and this, combined with the input provided will be used to inform concepts and ideas that we will present back to the public for feedback and evaluation in early 2021.

We will share details on the next phase of engagement on this page as they become available. Be sure to subscribe to our email newsletter to stay up-to-date on future opportunities to get involved.

All projects will present their recommendations, plans and costs estimates to Committee & Council for approval later in 2021.