Recent content by ByeByeBaby

Is it possible that some of the analysis you're looking for was done behind the scenes and not shared at the meeting you were at?

Local exceptionalism hasn't worked in Toronto or Vaughan, both of which have lost funding. Or ask Red Deer, whose council voted down the blanket zoning change in their agreement and lost every penny. My guess is that since each municipality submitted a list of proposed policies to CMHC, they...

Have I got good news for you about The Banff Centre!

Not strictly Flames per se, but an interesting view from the Saddledome's catwalk that goes above the scoreboard connecting to the broadcast centre.

A few thoughts: #1 - Don't mind the public building, but the residential buildings are somehow obstructive to me. #2 - I think this one has grown on me. Might be my favourite. #3 - lives and dies on how well the green roof works, and my guess is it won't given the harsh climate. #4 - I don't...

Here's the cleared sections in the area; my guess is that at least part of the reason is that Weaselhead is pretty limited as a connector -- other than Oakridge to Westhills or something. And it gives the studded-fat-tire crowd someplace to go break their arms. One thing I've experienced is...

I definitely wouldn't. A big challenge in transit system operation is communication and clarity, especially with less frequent users. Clarity is important, and starts in system design. Having trains always go to the same place every time is much clearer than anything you could explain with...

Here's my takes on the Free Fare Zone: How much revenue is lost to Calgary Transit? Basically none; very few people are willing to pay 4 dollars to take a train for three blocks. On paper, there's a lot of revenue, but the value is only what you can get people to pay for it, which is very...

If someone does have a genie on call, what needs to get built here is an active mode crossing of Memorial: Amongst other things, it would reduce the distance from the Bridgeland central plaza to the Downtown by 150m.

Thanks for your detailed knowledge! Also, hooray, the feedermain is open for business and restrictions have been lifted! I've already had a long-overdue shower.

Saw a CBC news story today about privatized water supply even closer to home... Installing fire hydrants and then just putting them out of service and fighting the county's attempt to get them working... that's willingness to innovate!

I suspect a professional sports team would not be particularly interested in demobilizing their operations and packing all of their equipment away every night, and then setting it up and cleaning out the food wrappers, dog shit and garbage left by community users every morning. (Even if there's...

There are already a dozen big empty fields in the inner city, and a dozen more entire blocks of empty surface parking that could be the exact same great public asset. And "when the Stamps are not using it" is November to April... prime farmer's market and outdoor fitness time.

I think that this is a good point; the report raises plenty of good questions and issues, not one of which needs to be addressed today rather than in a month. (The most urgent recommendations -- especially building the parallel pipe, which is in progress -- were made in a previous report from...

My interpretation is that doing a vulnerability assessment is a specific formal study type; that doesn't mean that nobody's ever thought about vulnerability before. In the same way project management is a set of techniques that started being done about 110 years ago (first Gantt chart for...