Recent content by kora

Looks highly unliveable. What's with the lack of windows on that side?

That Youth rate is cheaper than here in Victoria. Day passes are way more expensive in Calgary. $6 in Victoria across the board.

I don't necessarily always agree with this. Consider a family of 4 taking a trip with 2 teenagers. In Victoria that costs $3 x 4 = $12 even for a short 20 minute bus ride downtown. Car travel is almost always cheaper, severely discouraging transit use in this circumstance.

Great idea. I would make transit free for people under 12 years old. That's the policy out here in Victoria under BC Transit. I personally would extend it to anyone under 16 or even 18. Why should children pay for transit when they don't make money?

The metal stuff makes an otherwise ugly building interesting, for this prominent location. Classic Calgary experimentation. I would not like to be a resident with the shading and view implications of those metal bars coming through the windows.

The quality of newspaper journalism across Canada and probably the western world, has tanked. I don't think there's a single good newspaper left in Canada. Even the Globe is a rump of its former self.

Alberta with the highest unemployment rate of any province at 8.4%, outside of NL. https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/daily-quotidien/250905/mc-a001-eng.htm

It's so cool so many of these residential conversions are connected to the Plus 15, way downtown. It's like one giant super building spanning millions of square feet and many kilometres.

Any chance we're still getting a post-secondary school on that block?

The Richardson St. example is more like the Kensington context. The Vancouver St. example is more applicable to how we can change the Beltline for the better. When I think about it, the Beaulieu Gardens park already provides a great example of what could be. 6 Street was shut off between 13 and...

The language around 1d is so opaque ... "to the satisfaction of the City". I know this allows for flexibility and negotiation, but it's a weak policy in my opinion. What if we started saying provide building height and building setbacks to the satisfaction of the City. It means nothing and...

They did this successfully in Victoria and it radically reduced car traffic on the street. Local access for cars was unaffected. On Vancouver St and Richardson St they deadended the street for cars and replaced it with a small plaza of sorts in the middle of the street complete with sidewalks...

I'm in Victoria now and they're insisting on these things, but they are still pretty weak and usually last for a short period of time. This one building offers free bus passes for all units, but only for 1 person per unit, and only for 3 years. So if you have 2 or 3 people needing the bus pass...

An extension into Sunalta has additional benefits. It improves coverage for Sunalta and Bankview residents and visitors

Did they offer free transit passes or bikes or car share or whatever?