Recent content by CalgaryTiger

What makes you say this? It will be centrally managed and we should get a downtown train station. The positive for me is the centrally managed because it will mean we will not have private companies working in Silos. This structure should allow for integration and efficiency of scale. How much...

Read between the lines... (Puts on tin foil hat): The UCP, like Egypt, Indonesia, and Brazil before them, are going to build a new million-person city around Red Deer thus justifying that Red Deer be the highspeed rail hub.

I sense, maybe hope they're, able to use the Stephen Ave, Olympic Plaza, and Arts Commons renovation to really rethink the whole space. I know they will not at all entertain anything across Macleod, and instead I see them turning the focus of the plaza towards the Southwest corner facing the...

Where does the elevator go?

To me, that's the interesting point. Big projects can cannibalize the trades from smaller ones. As a tradesperson you're much more likely to get good consistent work working for a bigger construction company. And it might not just be trades, could be materials too.

So the way it is now?

The freight rail versus passenger rail conversation is the most interesting to me... It's almost like the bus/transit versus private vehicle conversation. If passenger rail is inefficient it will be cool to start but will not sustain, there needs to be a shift to make mass people movement more...

I heard another perspective on this: Cities can actually use this legislation as a bit of crutch. It use to be the mayor and council who you could squarely blame, now, talk to the province. The city should also upload everything that isn't their responsibility to the province. (City to...

In my experience, your all-season/all-weather "summers" should do just fine in the heavy wet stuff as it is similar to heavy rain. Proper winter tires are for cold temperature plus snow, in almost 20 years, it hasn't done me wrong.

At this point, when a development forum is anti-development, the city has to ask and get better from the developer.

https://www.alberta.ca/release.cfm?xID=90258B07B5327-EF8B-34DC-92741257629F6518 The government’s vision is for an Alberta passenger rail system that includes public, private or hybrid passenger rail, including: a commuter rail system for the Calgary area that connects surrounding communities...

Unless you're putting on summer slicks you should be able to change your tires Easter and Thanksgiving. That's when I open my garage for family.

People voting against their actual best interest in order to satisfy their perceived interest. Huge, if true.

"Not stoked" is an understatement... How come it is always the small government party that increases the concentration of power of the government? Oh right, it is because the size and power of government wasn't the problem it is what they do with that power.

Only because that's what they've said they would do. Granted they haven't really been given the funding, but the idea in 2008 was to make Stampede Park more urban. I think we're about to turn the corner (BMO, Events Centre, Stampede Trail, 17th, hotel, and maybe more) but up until this point the...