Recent content by jhappy77

My main issue with housing first is there is a significant chunk of the homeless population is unwilling or uncapable of following basic rules, leading to chaos for everyone nearby. Here in Vancouver, some druggies were starting fires in the SROs every couple weeks (via genius moves like using a...

Why should we care about preventing a flood of micro-units? If people don't actually want them, developers won't build them.

Awesome work! That makes me curious which census tracts in Calgary are the strongest candidates for joining the list.

I moved from Calgary to Vancouver ~2 years ago and there is a very noticeable difference in urban feel. There are tower clusters springing up everywhere, most sidewalks are well-trafficked, a huge portion of people my age exclusively use transit or never even learned to drive. Most neighborhoods...

seems they're pretty specific about the concept location.. :p wipe them parking lots out! EDIT: same project?

If Stampede continues to grow and more space is needed, Elliston Park could be a cool option for new events. Works nicely for GlobalFest! and maybe it would incentivize building that purple line...

I don't think we need an amusement park in the same vein as Tivoli. But I love the idea of transforming it into something that is useful and attractive year-round (while still enabling good usage during stamede itself) One idea that I think would work very well in the winter months is a...

https://citypopulation.de/en/usa/ua/ There's a trove of midsize American cities that Calgary could feasibly outpace over the next 1-2 decades to become a top 20 city in US/Canada. Like Kansas City, Pittsburgh, Cleveland, St. Louis, Orlando, Baltimore, Austin, Las Vegas.

The SkyTrain is elevated in Metrotown, Brentwood, New Westminster, Surrey, Richmond, etc... doesn't kill development or property values there. Is it the perfect solution? No. But we need good transit more than we need perfection.

While it's nice to see groceries, I wish we had new grocery stores opening in the East Beltline or Eau Claire further from the area already in walking distance of Co-op and Safeway.

I think gondolas are seriously underrated as a transit option. Sure, their top speed isn't as high as a train, but the end-to-end trip time can be way shorter because headways are so high. They are also remarkably cheap to build compared to other forms high order transit. They shouldn't form a...

The most challenging part of connecting the SE to N corridor is going from 7th Ave to the Arena. But it would be stupid for either the N or SE lines to not have a transfer station at 7 Ave, so if they both need to go to 7 Ave anyways, connecting the two is really not that much additional work or...

Or you get areas like this near where I grew up: Scenic Acres Blvd never has much traffic, and is only 50 km/h, but it obviously needs 2 lanes in each direction, PLUS slip lanes, PLUS 2 separate ultra wide residential roads on either side. The amount of excess is quite ridiculous. I've often...

I think at this point we just need to see it elevated thru downtown and Eau Claire, using 2 St. That option was dismissed way too early in the review process last time, seemingly by office building owners who were worried about it decreasing their property values. But I really doubt their...

The biggest disadvantage of that alignment is that it doesn't have a direct transfer station with either the red or blue lines. Though you could always walk a few blocks from the beltline. Based on plans from the city, if a line like this is ever built, it would probably leave Crowchild and take...