Green Line advocates call for bus-only lanes, end of lane reversal on broken Centre Street – Calgary [Video]

Advocates of Calgary’s Green Line LRT are calling on the city to make several “transit-first” changes to Centre Street, citing uncertainty around the LRT project’s future extension to north Calgary communities.

LRT on the Green Foundation along with the Crescent Heights Village Business Improvement Area have sent a letter to the City of Calgary’s general manager of Infrastructure Services with several proposed changes to Centre Street between 4 Avenue South and 20 Avenue North.

Those changes include the permanent removal of rush-hour lane reversals, the designation of both the northbound and southbound curb lanes as bus-only lanes during rush hour, public realm enhancements and new traffic signals every two blocks to improve pedestrian crossings.

Jeff Binks, who heads LRT on the Green, argued Centre Street is “broken” with busy bus routes getting stuck in rush hour traffic.

“We have tens of thousands of Calgarians a day moving up and down Centre Street on buses, and those Calgarians are stuck …