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Not exactly true. It is just the city has to consider the university facility as an asset to the community, and consider that when allocating grant money from the feds and province. The city of course wants its stuff funded, not things at Canada Olympic Park or the University when funding those...

The city had/has an incentive program to nudge people to low flow fixtures. Then, the city banned driveway car washing, and required car washes to reuse water. They raised prices to reflect costs. watering your lawn is expensive. Plenty of older facilities have their own water licenses and...

Much easier just to sniff up bluetooth data.

Alas, this is just not true. To implement one that works requires accepting tradeoffs that make it barely more useful than paper passes and tickets, or ballooning in scope and complexity to try to implement what people think are basic features but are really hard to do (fare capping, online...

Whether they have it or not, they will think they have it. Iraq recovered to its 1990 level of production this year. The energy literacy at the highest levels likely isn't there. This isn't wildcatting.

Pretty cool! Unfortunately it all comes back around to freight rail being too successful in Canada. The CPKC is pushing 37 trains a day on average through the system, up from 33 or so two decades ago. To add 16+ trains a day (8 round trips) to the line for the stretch just isn't feasible without...

Good thing that project has already been funded, and the project to create resiliency so there isn't a single point of failure which degrades so much capacity.

Calgary had two failed rollouts and other systems have cost hundreds of millions. I think a more likely upgrade is to the terminals on the buses to support credit and debit cards/phones. Apparently the hardware is all there (or it is a relatively simple upgrade). Much more simple than an...

Is a ghost town after 6 pm.

My dream for this is the main hall of the north building of the Telus convention centre. There were concerns about it being even more uneconomic as a convention centre after the BMO expansion was finished. When else do you get a large column free hall that has great loading dock facilities...

Most cities that build airport links find they underperform compared to other parts of their system. Airports are bad trip generators compared to the number of people coming and going proximate to the airport (what we are being told when we hear X people work at the airport, plus passengers).

It aligns to a potentially future 7th and 8th Avenue subway. Built to save a boat load of trouble in the future, not to be used anytime soon.

I believe so. Other more expensive solutions could be used like a wider bore or parallel tunnel to contain a lot more evacuation and smoke management space. Somewhat. The problem comes when a presenter talking about the report can’t or won’t contextualize the cost of the incremental pie bits...

A long response which jumps around a bit: Because each of the 6 (not counting 16th or the possible one to the south) stations would cost $200 million in today's dollars. Then add in 16+ smoke and evacuation structures plus the land for them (any run longer than 400 metres between evacuation...

underground to get into the median of Centre makes sense given the elevation change. The crossing at grade onto Centre seemed like a false economy to me, trading a long term expense (slow, plus traffic impacts) to save maybe $50 million bucks up front. After that going under or over 16th makes...

It isn't that they hated underground, it is that the city never found a way/was unwilling to mitigate risk besides throwing more money at the problem from the project base budget, instead of accepting the risk of cost overruns from the tunnel and covering it out of city only reserve funds, for...

Floor plate size requirements force us into building typologies that are more expensive and allows for less experimentation. Sure, lets just lock point towers with high ratios of services and circulation on podiums into law. Then keep FAR the same, effectively reducing the amount of space...

Oh a different. Schools added capacity there like nobodies business, because their government has been even worse than the UCP on post-secondary funding.

Far less of a constraint, plus far fewer houses that are compatible with that type of conversion. Also the surge in Ontario was so much steeper, that the housing market is trying to catch a rocket (there isn't a great analogy that is the reverse of catching a falling knife)

Lots of shadow additions, with old housing being split into multiple units. Plus for international students especially, there is crowding. A single house to three two bedroom apartments, then with 6 people each in them.