Recent content by kora

Curious to see how 15 Avenue will play out with regards to car parking. And then I wonder what changes they will make (if any) to prevent car parking

Have they demolished Eau Claire mall?

For a second I thought it said Fixx auto

My friend went to Taylor Swift in Minneapolis and they simply stopped running the trains after the concert was finished. It took them 3 hours to get back to their hotel room in the suburbs even though it was by a light rail station

This kind of holistic thinking would be helpful

For me it's a surprise to see these huge American cities with weekend light rail service consisting of 1 or 2 car trains. It's like running a tram on an expensive exclusive right-of-way.

We're not Minneapolis or Houston with their dismal transit usage. Bad idea from the start.

Why is this project taking a decade. It's like they're building the Sagrada Familia. This building is of middling significance as an art deco building, globally. It's only special because it's the best of its kind in Calgary.

What are they building on the top?

Considering its prime riverfront and LRT adjacent location, this one is a downer

Love to see 17th getting high rises. There was a risk it would be a permanently low-rise main street, not that there's anything wrong with that. Lots of great low-rise main streets in the world. I guess with this being the new expanded downtown, 17th is just too central.

I would choose to live here if I lived in Calgary

Whose idea was it to take a picture of Calgary from that angle. It was unflattering even in 1987. Were wastes of parking lot considered good things back then? Look at all the parking available in downtown Calgary!

It's such a massive site in the best of locations. What an opportunity.

Love how the Beltline skyline has merged into the downtown skyline. Kind of like Okotoks inevitably getting absorbed into the Calgary CMA.