Page 7 - City of Calgary’s Crowchild Trail Upgrades Project

Group shot of City of Calgary Executive Team and Calgary Mayor Naheed Nenshi

bridges that spanned over train tracks, busy the lanes and relocate the ramps effectively," Baird
roadways, pathways and sensitive habitats, adds.

which required the team to work around these

impediments while allowing traffic to flow on the
bridges. Crews installed temporary access platforms

over the river to meet the challenge, effectively

building new bridges underneath the existing
bridges. Baird says this unorthodox approach

allowed the team to complete the rehabilitation

efforts without impacting service along rail lines.
Further, they successfully avoided impacting the

Bow River and accommodated vehicle and pathway
Increased Connectivity
traffic above, below and around them.
on Crowchild Trail

From ISL’s award-winning Crowchild Trail Corridor Study
to complex, comprehensive construction staging, we are
"There were a lot of constraints throughout the proud to have played a key role in delivering this project
to the people of Calgary.
entire site that we had to work around while doing
Congratulations to the City and all our partners on a
heavy demolition and rehabilitation of the existing successful project.
structures, then rebuilding them back out to add EDMONTON | CALGARY | CANMORE | LETHBRIDGE | GRANDE
PRAIRIE | LANGLEY | BURNABY | SQUAMISH | WEST KOOTENAY
EAST KOOTENAY | VANCOUVER ISLAND | KAMLOOPS | SASKATOON ®

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