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Barlow/Max Bell station

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Barlow/Max Bell station is a CTrain light rail station in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. It serves the Northeast Line (Route 202). It opened on April 27, 1985, as part of the original Northeast line. The station is located in the median of Memorial Drive Southeast, near the intersection with 19 Street Northeast. The station is 3.9 km from the City Hall Interlocking. The station serves areas located along Barlow Trail, such as Mayland with a 50 space parking lot available for commuters and near the Max Bell Centre arena. The station's centre-loading (island) platform is accessed via ramps from a pedestrian tunnel under Memorial Drive. Barlow/Max Bell and Zoo are the only stations in the system that are constructed this way. As part of Calgary Transit's plan to operate 4-car trains by the end of 2014, all 3-car platforms were extended, and Barlow/Max Bell station also received new furnishings in addition to a platform extension. Construction took place in 2014. In 2005, the station registered an average transit of 1,600 boardings per weekday.

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Barlow/Max Bell station
Memorial Drive SE, Calgary Mayland

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Memorial Drive SE

Memorial Drive SE
T2E 6J8 Calgary, Mayland
Alberta, Canada
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Max Bell Centre (Calgary)
Max Bell Centre (Calgary)

Max Bell Centre (commonly Max Bell Arena) is an ice hockey arena in Calgary, Alberta, Canada, in the community of Radisson Heights. It seats 2,121 for hockey, with a standing room capacity of over 3,000. It is named after Max Bell, a philanthropist who was a prominent businessman in Calgary. It hosted curling and short-track speed skating events at the 1988 Winter Olympics, both demonstration events. Presently, the arena is home to the Calgary Canucks of the Alberta Junior Hockey League and the primary facility for the Northeast Calgary Athletic Association's minor hockey teams. The arena also hosts Rocky Mountain Lacrosse League games. Late December, it serves as the primary venue for the Mac's AAA midget hockey tournament. It is home to the Mac's Tourney's "Wall of Fame" featuring every tournament alumni who has gone on to play in the National Hockey League. In 2007, the arena completed construction to add a second sheet of ice as the city of Calgary attempts to keep up with demand for ice-time in a rapidly growing city. Max Bell Arena 1 in to which the Canucks play was renamed to the Ken Bracko Arena in 2017 as a tribute to Ken Bracko the founder of the Midget AAA World Invitational Tournament (formerly the Mac's Midget Tournament) as well as the 18U Alberta Elite Hockey league (AEHL), Bracko also served as president of the Canucks for 32 years until his death in 2015. In 2022, the city of Calgary completed $14 million in renovations on the arena.