Recent content by ByeByeBaby

Luckily, we actually have something of a good guide on this; a bus is $750K (a methane powered bus is a few huindred thousand more). A light rail train (full train) is I think $10M or so. Westbrook was recently repurchased for $43M. I don't know how feasible it is (and it's not in the 'quick...

Who's saying that it will? This is one of 98 pieces of the housing strategy that council passed last fall (item 1.C.4). The current expectation is that the average household will have a roughly 1 in 1000 chance of living next door to a parcel that will change because of this zoning. It's worth...

I'm agreeing with you, that the opposition is not mostly old, white men.

You raise a good point, there's absolutely overwhelming evidence that the opposition is not made up entirely of old, white men,and it's sexist to say so.

I went to a few Dinos games back in my younger days, but I wanted to see if McMahon was still as busy as it was back then, when 30 of us with a bullhorn and no cares could dominate the stadium. It's probably obvious to you all, but for the uninitiated I must admit that I cherry picked the...

Look at all the parking in this design! Like, there's a lot of parking already there and in this proposal, but it's somehow less than what is in the functional plan. Wow!

What are you even trying to get across here? Remind me who voted in the plebiscite that set the current zoning, and what the margin was in that one.

It completely writes out the important role played by Karens, for one. #herstory #wherewillthechildrenplay

I mean, this is hall of fame material. This 6 storey senior's housing? It's completely inconsistent with the neighbourhood. Way too big, way too tall! What's next to it? ... a five storey senior's housing building that's been in the neighbourhood for 50 years and predates virtually every...

The old unamended DP is also available; here's the before next to the after: The overall site use has changed as well: The two buildings on the south are still 3-storey office; the 3 (formerly 4) in the middle are still 6 storey, but the 4 (formerly 3) around the perimeter have risen from 6...

The better comparable (as in my table above) is not rail system use, but a measure of airport size such as boarding passengers. That represents both the passengers who are the talked-about market as well as workers (more passengers = more flights = more in-terminal shopping = more workers...

Here's some (pre-pandemic) numbers I put together showing weekday transit boardings at the airport stations of a selection of cities. What they have in common is that they are low numbers despite generally being in much larger cities with much busier airports. The full post suggests that...

Okay, I did the deep dive into this. The most detailed industry breakdowns available at the CMA level (304 different industry groups) provide more detail than the higher level summaries often given, which provides a clearer picture of the oilpatch employment. The definition can get as blurry as...

The big challenge is that the other team in SLC is really well established and plays at the exact same time as the hockey team. In the non-traditional and new hockey markets, there's: 4+ team cities - Los Angeles, Dallas, SF Bay Area (if you count the Sharks as a Bay Area team), Miami. These...

I think it's important to have a substantial urgent care centre in the middle of the city, given the huge daytime population (and pretty substantial nighttime population) nearby -- many of whom are without cars, making transport to a hospital harder. But an actual real-deal hospital is so much...