Centre Street (Calgary)

Centre Street is a major road in Calgary, Alberta.

The northern part (Centre Street North) extends from the Bow River to Bergen Road/Beddington Drive, after which it becomes a local arterial street before it becomes unavailable to vehicular traffic north of Bergen Crescent (the road continues, but it is only accessible to Calgary Transit and emergency vehicles. The road resumes immediately north of the "bus trap" at Beddington Trail, where it continues under the name Harvest Hills Boulevard. (A residual section of Centre Street exists in the far north end of the city as a rural road, but it will be replaced by a northern extension of Harvest Hills Boulevard as the area develops.) Centre Street North runs through the communities of Crescent Heights, Tuxedo Park, Highland Park, Thorncliffe, Huntington Hills and Beddington Heights.

The southern portion, designated Centre Street South, begins at the Bow River and continues south though Chinatown, Calgary and Downtown Calgary before ending at 9th Avenue S., at the foot of the Calgary Tower. Several non-contiguous sections of Centre Street appear sporadically south of this point, including between 10 Avenue S. and 18 Avenue S., a section of road that is also known as Volunteer Way; and as a commercial/industrial business road running south of 58 Avenue S. to Glenmore Trail, where it continuesto the south as Fairmount Drive. In most of the southern part of Calgary, Macleod Trail forms the central point.

Centre Street (along with Harvest Hills Boulevard in the north and Macleod Trail in the south), defines the east and west halves of the city for the purposes of street addresses (i.e. NW, SW, NE, SE).

In the downtown section, Centre Street is lined by some of Calgary's landmark buildings, such as the Petro-Canada Centre, the Dragon City Mall, Telus building, Hyatt Regncy hotel and Calgary Tower. The projected Encana Bow tower will also stand along Centre Street.

Centre Street Bridge

The Centre Street Bridge was built by the City of Calgary in 1916 over the Bow River for $375,000 replacing a steel truss bridge built by a land developer called the Centre Street Bridge Company Limited. [Calgary Public Library. [http://calgarypubliclibrary.com/calgary/historic_tours/corner/centre.htm Centre Street Bridge] ] It was designed by John F. Green, featured an upper and lower deck, and large cast concrete lions on four massive plinths, two at each end of the bridge.

It went through extensive restoration in 2001, when the bridge was closed for one year. The opening scene of the 2001 Steven Seagal movie Exit Wounds was filmed on the bridge during this closure.

Calgary Transit Bus Routes

The following Calgary Transit bus routes serves Centre Street (as of May 2007):

*Route 2 Killarney 17th Ave./Mount Pleasant (Beddington Heights, Crescent Heights)

*Route 3 Elbow Drive/Sandstone (Crescent Heights, Tuxedo Park, Highland Park, Thorncliffe, Huntington Hills, Beddington Heights)

*Route 4 Huntington (Huntington Hills)

*Route 5 North Haven (Huntington Hills)

*Route 17 Spruce Cliff/Renfrew (Crescent Heights)

*Route 32 Sunridge/Huntington (Huntington Hills, Beddington Heights)

*Route 46 Beddington Heights (Beddington Heights, Huntington Hills)

*Route 62 Hidden Valley Express (Crescent Heights, Tuxedo Park, Highland Park, Thorncliffe, Huntington Hills)

*Route 64 MacEwan Express (Crescent Heights, Tuxedo Park, Highland Park, Thorncliffe, Huntington Hills)

*Route 86 Coventry Hills (Beddington Heights, Huntington Hills)

*Route 88 Harvest Hills (Beddington Heights, Huntington Hills)

*Route 109 Harvest Hills Express (Crescent Heights, Tuxedo Park, Highland Park, Thorncliffe, Huntington Hills, Beddington Heights)

*Route 114 Panorama Hills (Huntington Hills, Beddington Heights)

*Route 116 Coventry Hills Express (Crescent Heights, Tuxedo Park, Highland Park, Thorncliffe, Huntington Hills, Beddington Heights)

*Route 142 Panorama Hills Express (Crescent Heights, Tuxedo Park, Highland Park, Thorncliffe, Huntington Hills, Beddington Heights)

*Route 146 Beddington Heights (Beddington Heights, Huntington Hills)

*Route 301 North-West BRT (Crescent Heights, Tuxedo Park, Highland Park, Thorncliffe, Huntington Hills, Beddington Heights)

*Route 449 North Hill/MacEwan (Beddington Heights)

Major intersections

;North section
*Memorial Drive (overpass)
*10th Avenue N
*12th Avenue N
*16th Avenue N
*20th Avenue N
*32nd Avenue N
*40th Avenue N
*McKnight Blvd. N
*56th Avenue N / Northmount Drive N
*64th Avenue N
*72nd Avenue N
*78th Avenue N
*Beddington Blvd. N

ee also

*Transportation in Calgary

References