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Leong: How can Calgary build a CTrain tunnel downtown? A 54-year-old report has answers

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A provincially commissioned report is expected this month offering a new alignment for the Green Line LRT through downtown Calgary .

The current setup for trains on the Blue and Red lines is maxed out, with no possibility of redundancy and resiliency for service downtown.

A proposed tunnel under Stephen Avenue was proposed more than five decades ago for a planned rapid transit system.

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