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Years ago I rode France’s excellent fast train, the TGV, from Lyon to Paris. It was an amazing ride – fast, smooth, comfortable and competitively priced. This is a train that actually does 300 kilometres per hour. What is remarkable is that when you go into a curve, you can still walk down the aisle of the train without feeling like you are being thrown against the side. I think this has something to do with the suspension system and track design. It would be my fervent wish that we could duplicate something like that in Alberta. If we did, I would even take a trip to Edmonton just for the ride.
Years ago I rode France’s excellent fast train, the TGV,
from Lyon to Paris. It was an amazing ride – fast,
smooth, comfortable and competitively priced. This
is a train that actually does 300 kilometres per hour. What
is remarkable is that when you go into a curve, you can still
walk down the aisle of the train without feeling like you are
being thrown against the side. I think this has something to
do with the suspension system and track design.
It would be my fervent wish that we could duplicate
something like that in Alberta. If we did, I would even take
a trip to Edmonton just for the ride.
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The $620-million runway – that is 14,000 feet long and<br />
200 feet wide and capable of handl<strong>in</strong>g the world’s largest<br />
aircraft – will be operational <strong>in</strong> June. A huge job<br />
that required some 260,000 cubic metres of concrete,<br />
500,000 square metres of gravel and required the <strong>in</strong>stallation<br />
of over 5,000 runway and taxiway lights.<br />
An easier construction project to follow by passengers<br />
has been the new <strong>in</strong>ternational term<strong>in</strong>al that will rise<br />
five levels above the ground to the south of the current<br />
airport term<strong>in</strong>al.<br />
Scheduled to be <strong>in</strong> service by the fall of next year, its<br />
peak on-site workforce sits at 1,600. As a green build<strong>in</strong>g<br />
it can boast of 660 kilometres of <strong>in</strong>-floor radiant heat<strong>in</strong>g<br />
tubes, cogeneration will save almost 5,000 tonnes of<br />
CO2 per year and 10 million litres of ra<strong>in</strong>water will be<br />
harvested and recycled annually.<br />
It will provide 22 additional aircraft gates and 300<br />
more airport hotel rooms on its north end.<br />
But there’s lots more development underway with<strong>in</strong><br />
airport lands.<br />
A new 125,000-square-foot air cargo facility has been<br />
built and is already fully leased <strong>in</strong> the Deerfoot north<br />
area and plans are to replicate it on an adjacent site.<br />
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