SUSTAINABLE URBAN LANDSCAPES
The Brentwood Design Charrette
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Example 1
This plan detail from Team One shows the light rail alignment along the centre of Lougheed Highway. The primary station straddles the intersection at Willingdon Avenue and Lougheed Highway in close proximity to a concentration of community facilities and major transfer points. Rather than having a single station serve both directions, this team proposed putting stops on either side of the Willingdon Avenue intersection. In this way, the width needed to accommodate passenger loading and unloading is lessened to the point at which each stop is essentially a strip of elevated sidewalk, where passengers cue up for boarding at one end of the stop and disembark at the other. This team surmized that staggering the stops, as opposed to building a double-sided station, would result in a more efficient use of the right-of-way and a better environment for pedestrian crossings. As this and the perspective drawing below show, the other side of each transit stop accommodates a left turn lane, which is separated from through-traffic by a landscaped boulevard.
 
Example 2

The perspective drawing above  illustrates Team One’s concept for the primary transit stop at Willingdon Avenue and Lougheed Highway. The right-of-way includes the following elements from left to right: a pedestrian sidewalk; a curb lane of traffic that doubles as a parking lane during non-peak hours; two lanes of westbound traffic; a landscaped boulevard; a turning lane; a surface light rail and narrow loading platform; a landscaped boulevard; two lanes of eastbound traffic; a parking lane; and a sidewalk. High-density development along the Lougheed corridor features shops, offices, a hotel, community facilities, and residential towers.