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October 29, 2013
Calgary flood 2013 – Resilience of City’s workforce supports Continuation of operations
Ron Schafer, Transportation PlanningSandy Virgo, Tomorrows Workplace
October 29, 2013
OVERVIEW
1) The flood
2) The fallout
3) Travel options
4) The recovery
5) Lessons Learned
6) Mobilizing City employees to continue operations
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The FLOOD
The Elbow river inflow peaked at 1,240 m3/second, 12x the regular rate and
more than 3x the 2005 flood
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The FLOOD
The Bow river flows peaked at
2400 m3/second, 8x the regular flow and
more than 3x the 2005 flood
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The FLOOD
Niagara Fallsaverage flow 1834 m3/second,
peak flow 2800 m3/second Wikipedia
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The FALLOUT
2) Shut down parts of Calgary for at least a week
3) Up to 10 weeks for buildings with flood damage
4) Evacuations in 32 communities affected 110,000 Calgarian’s
5) Roads and bridges damaged
6) Parking inventory reduced
1) 5.1 million hours of work lost in Alberta• 300,000 Albertans lost 7.5 million hours• 134,000 people put in 2.4 million additional hours• Net loss in all industries except utilities and public administration
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The FALLOUT
More than 20 bridges were closed
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The FALLOUT
16 LRT stations were closed
More than 50 bus routes were cancelled or detoured
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Travel Options
Temporary Park & Bike sites Carpooling
Temporary Transit Lanes
CommunicationsKey Messages
News ConferencesSocial Media
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Travel Options
Temporary park and bike sitesEstablished sites by asking private businesses and city facility managers if they were willing to allocate space.Sites were chosen near the core to allow travellers to park their vehicles and finish their trip by bike, transit or carpool. Temporary signage was installed and maps were created, posted online and distributed to the public. TP staff monitored the usage of the sites in the days following their implementation.
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South LRT – Established temporary transit lanes on Macleod Trail parallel to the disabled LRT line
Travel Options
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CarpoolingPosted banners on www.carpool.ca to encourage carpoolingincreased social media – between June 20 and July 8 – reached 24,872 Mayor Nenshi ‘s twitter feed encouraged carpooling , transit and cycling
Result: Calgary’s carpool database received 1135 visits in June 2013 compared to 447 in June 2012Registrations were up 77% in June 2013 from the year previousMost activity between June 22 to June 29peaked on the Tuesday Jun 25
Travel Options
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CommunicationsFrequent news conferencesMayor Nenshi encouragedtransit, carpooling and cycling ...
Key Messages “do not travel downtown unless you are part of the recovery”“parking and routes are compromised ““please do not drive downtown” “take transit, cycle or carpool”
Travel Options
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100 metres of track were replaced in one week to re-open the south line of the LRT.
The RECOVERY
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300 lane metres of Macleod Trail were rebuilt in 1.5 days
The RECOVERY
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The RECOVERY
1000 lane kilometres of road swept downtown in 24 hours
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80% of road network in affected
areas restored in the first seven days
The RECOVERY
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Lessons Learned
temporary options developed and put into placeInitial promotion was low key waiting for downtown to be openmessages encouraged downtown commuters and their employers to stay out of the downtown where possible
Transportation network back on line in record time Macleod trail and the adjacent South LRT line open in time for the Calgary Stampede on July 4th less than 12 days after the flooding.Mitigation measures, while ready, were not needed, majority of the transportation system to downtown was accessible within two weeks (except for some parking)
The Exception
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Mobilizing City Employees to Continue Operations
The FloodHow we mobilized the workforce