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Issue 6 2017 - FBJNA Photo taken of the Calgary skyline by Robert Walker on 2004-08-30. {{GFDL}}


///CALGARY


Calgary: a prairie transportation hub


By Mark Cardwell


German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche once famously says that what doesn’t kill you makes you stronger. If that goes for cities, then Calgary has emerged from the 2015 oil price collapse leaner and meaner than ever before. Nowhere is that more


evident than in regards to transportation and logistics. As a recent tour revealed,


Calgary is banging on all cylinders in its quest to become the premier road, rail and air port on the Canadian Prairies. “We’ve been working hard


to improve the speed of movement of goods


around


the city and beyond,” says Patti Dunlop, Calgary Economic Development. According to Dunlop, Calgary


and the province of Alberta have invested billions in recent years to improve trade highway corridors in and around the


city. Much of that spending has been devoted to improving and


completing the Stoney


and Deerfoot Trails, which make up the heart of Calgary’s 70-mile-long ring road system. The system notably connects Alberta’s Highway 2, which runs north to the provincial capital of Edmonton, with


Calgary’s


international airport in the city’s north end and the TransCanada Highway in the south.


Air Logistics


The city has made much of its mostly flat land available for development and expansion projects by community partners


and some of the many world- class transportation and logistics companies that call Calgary home. Calgary International Airport


(YYC) is a notable example. YYC has undergone a series of major development projects in recent years. In June 2014 it opened its fourth and biggest runway, a new $600-million, 14,000-ſt.-long concrete strip that is the longest of its kind in Canada. The airport also spent another $400 million to build new parking lots and cargo-dedicated aprons lined with modern warehouses and office buildings that are leased to carriers, c o ur i er s and freight


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