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Funny enough I did hear some early whispers about this over Stampede.

Looks like a miniature Vegas hotel pool with 8 cabanas at $1000 to $1500 a day each and non guests paying an entrance fee of $25.

If we figured out how to complete the vision of the Bow Trail Connector (connect 4 Ave east to Bow Trail west, and connect 5th Ave east...

Lots of stations are close to road crossings, so platform modification it is. Replace all the platforms, and for others, replace...

Years after, the main planner of the Edmonton LRT project said he wished they had have gone the Calgary route instead of the tunnel...

We have some official heights. They'll be released to the public shortly. taller tower - 70 storeys, 277.3 metres/909' shorter tower -...

Edmonton also was much more fiscally conservative in the 80s and 90s than Calgary, and ended up with much less stuff as a result. Pools...

The reason they didn’t do subway initially was to get more line built. I believe it’s one of the reasons are lines are so successful is...

There are many things at play which drove that. It is entirely viable to build on 8th, but the businesses aren't going to like the...

Isn't the "it's too expensive" the kind of thinking that gets us into these kind of situations to begin with. Imagine how cheap it...

https://www.canada.ca/en/department-finance/programs/consultations/2025/pre-budget-consultations-2025.html

Exactly in the ultimate stage. so they could build a tunnel on 7th without interupting service, and run it without an OMC or delivery...

Is below what they were imagining? I am struggling to understand exactly what they were thinking back in the 1980s, I don't think the...

I still think it would be wise for the city to find a way to pay for the 8av subway to be done in conjunction with the green line work...

The Arts Common Expansion probably doesn't conform