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Canada does a lot of this. Prince Rupert dispatches trains that don't stop at a Canadian terminal. Roberts' Bank ships out american coal. American oil goes to New Brunswick and then the gasoline goes down the eastern seaboard. It gives us scale that reduces costs for moving our stuff, and...

Found an interesting article from a few years back on factors that inform decisions on which to go forward with. There is no best option, all have their own issues. Graphic from the article: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/pressure-scale-new-dynamic-canadian-east-coast-ports-rodrigue/

Projected loss of property value is not a revenue loss to government. Also likely wrong.

How it integrates with a potential people mover, or in the interim, dedicated bus flyovers from airport rail, needs to getc close to functional planning. This government with such ambition, I think across files they're realizing that just doing stuff is pretty hard unless you have a budget to...

Haven’t been at the airport in a while. Either the scaffolding/tent is coming down on Concourse B, or just about enclosed for a winter of work (without context I’d bet on the later).

$10 million to get the project to a decision point would help a huge amount.

It is a relatively simple project that is still in scoping. The process includes the province putting forward the project. Absence doesn’t stop it from being added later. It’s very much the province needs to decide what to do. From the outside it looks like they are stuck in analysis paralysis...

At 3.5% of GDP spend, thinking about what capabilities we can gain is important. Right now everything can be accomodated in the 2% bucket -- the new submarines, fighter air craft, navy destroyers. What is useful to us and our likely allies, thats the next 1.5%. Admiral Topshee (head of the...

Here is the eligiblity for one of their rental projects: The provision model assumes that they are making back most if not all of their capital contribution over time, so they can finance the occupied development, and then move onto the next project.

The western gap is in a bomber fleet that is slightly less capable than the new B21 stealth bomber imo, but can handle the ultra long length standoff and medium length cruise missles on mass that the fast jets can only carry one per air frame. Something that can get within 1000 km without...

It isn't needlessly, thats the thing. It costs money to run simultaneous reviews instead of sequential, and resources from the feds to have enough capacity to run things simultaneously. Before, the goal was lowest risk, lowest dollar cost process. In exchange, it took longer. Now we're...

Attainable Homes Sunnyside Triangle Site. DP2025-05400 Address of the parcel: 322 9 Street NW. 198 units. 131,802 Square foot Approximately 3.44 FAR Renderings via Attainable Homes Calgary, structure by ATCO Structures. Architecture and Planning: Keystone Architecture and Planning

Ward level polls would be super hard to do with any form of accuracy ... I really doubt polls like this.

There have been plenty of projects on lists for the city that never made it through prioritization - perhaps they'll be able to go further down that list. I'd look there first. TBH the city should always have river pathway sections ready to go, in different size buckets. Then when other...

Alas, until the downtown tunnel is complete, the logical 'zone' system is paying for crossing into the free fare zone. Outside of somewhat wide peaks, the system could be super cheap. Trip cost for LRT only is $1 or so (can't confidently say what it is today, two decades ago the cost was...