Calgary Transit
Infrastructure in Queensland
Queensland is a community in southeast Calgary that was officially established in 1973 on land annexed to the City of Calgary in 1961. The community is bounded by Bow Bottom Trail SE to the west, the community of Diamond Cove & Deerfoot Trail SE to the north, Fish Creek Park to the east and Canyon Meadows Drive SE to the south.
Vehicle Traps:
Pictured here is the Queensland bus gate, located at 200 Queensland Place near Bow Bottom Trail SE. This bus gate was originally built as a vehicle trap in the late-1970s to restrict cars turning into Queensland from Bow Bottom Trail. Buses would use this trap, alongside an identical trap constructed on the other side of Bow Bottom Trail SW to travel between the Queensland and Lake Bonavista communities. The Queensland trap was remodelled in the late-1980s upon the construction of the Diamond Cove community, with a median being constructed between two parallel vehicle traps, one for each direction. Due to the implementation of community shuttle buses on Route 29 starting on September 5, 2005, the vehicle traps were decommissioned around the spring or summer of 2005, with a bus gate being constructed where the median once was. The two traps on the Queensland side still remain today, except blocked off with concrete blocks.