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New LRT line ‘a huge benefit’ to the area say city officials cody stuart
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algary’s long-awaited west LRT line will transform the neighbourhoods that border its eight-kilometre stretch – and mostly for the better, city officials say.
Scheduled to open in early 2013 after first being approved in 1988, the $1.4 billion project will bring LRT service to an area of the city expected to grow from its current population of 105,000 to approximately 120,000 in the next 20 years. With so many people — both new and established — calling the area home, the obvious
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question of just what this mean to those buying and selling homes in the community arises. “There will be people who are going to see it as a huge benefit and other that won’t, and I guess we have to be prepared to balance those,” said Neil McKendrick, manager of Transit Planning for the City of Calgary. “I think overall we will see a huge benefit to this area.” While she admits that she doesn’t intend to use the new line, longtime Signal Hill resident Kathie Welsh views the impending arrival of a
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CTrain into her neighbourhood in a positive light. “There have been a bunch of new condos that have gone up there – I think for them it will be great. I sort of equate it to the fact that there are a lot of very young families in the area I live in and having a school across the street from us is ideal. So, for us, that picked up the value of the houses,” said Welsh, who has lived in the area for 16 years. “I think the CTrain and the accessibility will only do the same.” Welsh did say some of her neighbours have mentioned concerns about
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Calgary’s West LRT line is scheduled to begin carrying passengers in early 2013. a possible rise in crime as a result of the new line, with “undesirables” using that same accessibility to enter the area. But according to Brian Whitelaw, Calgary Transit’s coordinator for Public Safety and Enforcement Section, such fears are largely unfounded.
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