Recent content by ByeByeBaby

Good article! I'm of the mind that council should provide basic transit to everyone because we live in a society, and sack up and increase taxes a little to increase service on high ridership potential routes. If we want to be a world class city, we do that by paying for world class amenities...

I only count places where I exit the airport-hotel industrial complex. Canada - all provinces ex. NL, plus NWT USA - 20 states and DC Mexico - Jalisco (mostly resort), Quintana Roo, Yucatán, Campeche Bahamas Bermuda Cuba Costa Rica Nicaragua Argentina Uruguay Switzerland France UK Germany...

First, it's terrible communication and PR to announce the closure of a route a month before it stops running, but it's Calgary Transit. Also little disingenuous on CT's part to provide the only comparison being the busiest bus route in the city, especially since the 70 only makes two trips in...

I appreciate your strong advocacy and support for electing more Liberal MPs in Calgary, but the article you linked sure sounds like Toronto's 2026 funding is also at risk. Neither city has lost a penny... yet.

This predates this paradigm, but one example was first aid kits. Every province has worker safety legislation that requires employers to have a first aid kit (and the rules on first aid kits depend on how many workers and how hazardous the work site is), but each set of legislation was slightly...

It's interesting the response to my provocative list which is literally the exact same list as SurrealPlaces with the cruelty removed. All of their more complex sophisticated solutions involve the state providing public housing. Jail is housing, plus meals, plus cruelty. Forced inpatient...

How indeed could we deal with unhoused people? 1) housing 2) housing 3) housing 4) housing 5) housing 6) housing in Edmonton 7) combination of the above Hmmm...

I strongly doubt it. Statscan methodologies define a downtown as the densest area of employment, plus a 1 km buffer, so the thing that would make our downtown area spatially larger would not be population growth, but more employment near the core (but at densities similar to the very high ones...

Why would the feds pay money for something that was going to happen anyway? That's a terrible waste of public funds. In fact, if the goal is housing affordability, why are any funds coming to the areas where housing is more affordable? HAF funding wasn't based on a single policy, different...

All those new flights are from user 2604:3D08:5D7D:8D30:585B:1233:F73E:1CB2 who has only ever made those changes as well as a handful of new flights on the Seattle airport Wikipedia page, which have already been reverted because there's no evidence they exist. I guess everybody needs a hobby...

You know, another term for 'conflict points' is 'access points'; these are places where cyclists can get to the apartment buildings, townhouses, medical buildings, offices and shops. I think the richest city in Canada should be able to both provide lighting for well-used paths and provide good...

That's awesome; thanks for sharing the link. Here's the swing ridings (assuming no changes from the last election, which is obviously wrong). The turning point riding (would switch from UCP to NDP majority) is Calgary-Acadia, last time it was Calgary-East.

A lot of it could be just general high volume; new communities provide more of a mix than they used to. I picked Belmont as a completely random example. The traditional suburban SFD lots are on the left, and the duplex/townhome ('missing middle') lots are on the right (red lots are sold): I...

As a hint, if you haven't looked at the AB Politics post, the new Buffalo riding with population estimate as of July 2024: The previous Calgary Buffalo (includes the rest of the Centre City as well as Inglewood/Ramsay and Mission/Cliff Bungalow) was 77,635, a difference of 23.4K. As of 2021...

The Cochrane/Airdrie riding isn't really a pickup; we've gone from essentially 4 ridings in the Calgary halo to 5 - but the apparent extra riding is really just due to realigning of other rural areas; the Crossfield/Beiseker/Irriciana area was added to the halo, and the Millarville/Diamond...