Recent content by CBBarnett

Great example - it goes all the way to Council, has a bunch of concepts and things figured out about it, gets approved, and then..... nothing. You'd think there'd be a feedback loop somehow a few years later that says "hey look, we aren't going to do this anymore because of X, Y or Z reasons"...

I maybe am mis-remembering, but wasn't there a relatively recent functional study as part of Green Line / Max Green that sketched out a plan on how bus circulations are supposed to work downtown with dedicated bus lanes? Perhaps that can be dusted off for some of these major avenues? I always...

Totally - if Currie is as big of destination as it was originally proposed, maybe the current setup is worth it despite being inefficient to improve Currie access. Also, it's not ideal to have a transit stop next to a freeway... but that can be mitigated with a higher-quality stop like other MAX...

Would have been great to know that before they build the Marda Loop Station on the on-ramp. The Max Yellow is a pretty solid route with a couple of pain points - downtown's brutal lack of bus priority and this Marda Loop station location. The problem is they put the existing station on the NB...

A very boring building but built in one of the most obvious locations for this kind of building in the city. 20m from a LRT platform and on a quiet street is a great spot. Banff Trail being the last onon-freeway median LRT stations in the NW so it's both a surprisingly quiet and surprisingly...

That setback table in the land use bylaw used on 17th Avenue and other places in the bylaw is pretty wild artifact in that it's just there by itself . As you said, these setbacks were for road widening originally but that's not really a thing that seems to be captured anywhere in official...

I am existing that target demographic now but I'd imagine if I lived physically above a grocery store it would probably capture 90% of my grocery spending, regardless of the price. The convenience of a full service grocery with lots of good ready-made options instantly accessible would be such...

It's not clear this is a blanket rule for all buildings in the core, or just a unique factor because of where this one is specifically located in relation to the flight path. Maybe an even taller building could in theory exist further west. It's one of these "problems" in that it's not really...

Isn't it more about the flight path to access the runway? One of our plane experts would know, but I feel there's certain times of day where there's a whole stream of planes taking off over the Beltline heading west. They are way above 275m, but perhaps it's a safety bubble kind of thing. One...

Recent service changes mercifully killed this wildly inefficient route actually, 81 still is used but it goes in a different direction now. Not sure if they have replaced parts of it in a different route combo to provide MacLeod coverage.

One way I have thought about MacLeod is that it's kind of the poster child when combining 75 years with an distinct absence of urban planning and overly strict transportation design rules for arterials. To get started: a central problem is that the properties are both two big and too small...

These towns are really quite small. Is there really much demand? Lethbridge is the largest by far, but it's still just over 100,000 people and it's also closest to Calgary at about 2 hours driving time. Strikes me as a tough market for flights to have limited demand and a reasonably short drive...

That transborder decline is getting harder to hide. Explains the huge boost to the domestic routes planned with reducing capacity to the US.

I think mixed-use facilities can be the great - but the services/uses involved got to work together and compromise, and more honestly audit what they really need as a facility requirement v. what is a legacy, niche industry culture, or made-up "nice-to-haves" masquerading as strict...

Forgot for a bit that I have a lifetime project to evaluate the NW corner of MacLeod and 11th Avenue SW. This one is new, but not particularly recent. August 2024: interestingly, it seems the traffic team at the city has their own streetview contribution. It's a return to form here for street...