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Why is Downtown Calgary out of alignment? quote:

Physically in terms of the rest of Calgary's road grid, why is there a slight tilt with the avenues and streets downtown?



I've been wondering this for years and searched Google with no prevail. Just seeing if anyone on beyond can shed some light on this.

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My quess would be it has something to do with the railline....

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Cause the earth is round, not flat. Duh.

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strategically placed slants to keep the mole people underground.

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My quess would be it has something to do with the railline....



I'll Google search from that, as a lifelong Calgarian I was always curious.

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its cuz the Architec was drunk.. so to him it looked stright at the time!!

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Did that make sense in your head^

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A tilt? lol it's still a boring straight road!

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Re: Why is Downtown Calgary out of alignment? quote:

Originally posted by Proboscis
Physically in terms of the rest of Calgary's road grid, why is there a slight tilt with the avenues and streets downtown?

I've been wondering this for years and searched Google with no prevail. Just seeing if anyone on beyond can shed some light on this.



Did you notice that the roads slant horizontally as well?

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They are perfectly horizontal, the slant just a matter of your perspective.

But I'm guessing that either:

A) Survey techniques at the time meant they didn't get the roads perfectly parallel with with East-West; Or

B) The influence of the river.


No prevail??

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Originally posted by 5000Audi
its cuz the Architec was drunk.. so to him it looked stright at the time!!



The roads are still perfectly straight...

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Just a stab in the dark here, but which way from true north is magnetic north? Could it be that the roads were designed at a time when magnetic north was accepted as true north?


Better theory than a drunk architect, but let's not forget, the first road in Calgary had to come from _somebody_, and he could have been drunk, although you would think that the next sober person would notice this.

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They didnt have precision measuring tools to line up roads that are across the river back in 1950.

Or.

Calgary's North and South have obviously shifted with plate tectonics.

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Just a stab in the dark here, but which way from true north is magnetic north? Could it be that the roads were designed at a time when magnetic north was accepted as true north?


Better theory than a drunk architect, but let's not forget, the first road in Calgary had to come from _somebody_, and he could have been drunk, although you would think that the next sober person would notice this.



I read a book about the beginning of Calgary. What a fucking gong show it was. Calgary Cavalcade by Grant MacEwan. Its not in print, but Im sure there is a copy on Ebay or some where, used book shop or something.

But as I understand it the roads slant because they are parallel with the rail line

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I read a book about the beginning of Calgary. What a fucking gong show it was. Calgary Cavalcade by Grant MacEwan. Its not in print, but Im sure there is a copy on Ebay or some where, used book shop or something.

But as I understand it the roads slant because they are parallel with the rail line



This could be solved with a quick google search but i'll googletard it and ask here....Where did Calgary start and when did downtown, as we know it today, get started?

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wasnt it a lumber mill, which is now known as eau claire?

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Actually downtown is straight, the rest of the city is off-axis!

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Originally posted by dino_martini


But as I understand it the roads slant because they are parallel with the rail line



Now, why were the railroads built slanted? easy now...

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This could be solved with a quick google search but i'll googletard it and ask here....Where did Calgary start and when did downtown, as we know it today, get started?



Calgary used to be an outpost for the NWMP (RCMP)

Originally posted by TYMSMNY


Now, why were the railroads built slanted? easy now...



take a compass, stand on the tracks

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