5. prairie city- the downtown: 7th avenue
As a sign of its economic prosperity, Calgary has just installed the first phase of the 7th avenue redevelopment project. 7th ave stretches right down the centre of downtown as a transit-only street. (This was project I had worked on while a designer at Carlyle + Associates in Edmonton). The photo above shows the calgary “c-train” bursting at the seams before it unloads its hundreds of people onto the new transit station platform.