Recent content by lemongrab

You could run them much much faster with an 8 Ave subway. It would be shame to spend a few years tearing up Stephen Ave to do it though...(wait a minute - we're doing that anyway!)

There is also a plan to use slower streets to the west of Macleod...but they strike me as still having plenty of traffic and lots of parking so I wonder how that will go. For example: Quite a few random driveways along this stretch, so even if they killed all of the street parking curb side...

When the DT segment ends up back in front of council I believe a 'No' vote would put us in exactly that position. Most likely there would be a motion arising with direction to explore another option or maybe even cancel the whole thing, but I actually wouldn't be shocked if those motions didn't...

I think they already re-set the election date for October 2027 (because that one time we had wildfires in May, but of course there's no chance we'd ever have fires into October since August/September are such wet+cool months...or something). There were several reasons why an immediate election...

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I wonder how the amenities in Currie Barracks work? They opened nice washrooms and splash park this summer. The washrooms seem to be cleaned frequently and the splash park seemed to be staffed most of the time (though it just seemed like somebody sitting in the back room...not sure what they...

I think this poll forced 'undecideds' to say where they are leaning. And it seems like those folks generally follow the existing trend of decideds

Am I the only one who thinks the current grandstand is totally fine? It's got a climate controlled concourse, a lot of the seats are covered and it has its back to the prevailing wind, and it has upper decks which puts a lot of those seats closer to the action. Maybe the sight lines aren't...

This did a decent job of showing some of the invisible challenges/complexities involved in running transit...but of course it showed the sensational* side of security and cleanliness, too: Sensational may not be quite the right word because those issues are undoubtedly true...tough to strike...

So dumb. Unless you do the meat-grinder style full height barrier then a turnstile isn't much of an impediment without human enforcement behind it. So just do more human enforcement. Turnstiles could also make the experience quite a bit worse in many places. Chinook Station would be very easy...

Given the excellent width I think it's reasonable to have a 'slow down' turn to keep it from becoming a race track. Tight 180s are painful; this looks about perfect to me to encourage appropriate speed

Looks like this will be under threat on Sat/Sun, but the outlook beyond that looks warm again

Another way to phrase this could be: it would be silly to build an interchange at 210th because you'll also need to build one at 194th. It would be interesting to know exactly how much time this saves for Calgarians...seems like the bulk of the benefit goes to parasites. Left turns get replaced...

The locals that take the blue line will be airport workers. People in the NE near the blue line fly less than average. People who fly most often tend to do it for business, where their taxi is expensed. It's pretty easy to talk yourself into a cab unless you're a solo traveller with minimal...

A tweet from Councillor Walcott long ago pegged that property value loss at $200M; and considering the point he was trying to make we can probably take that as the absolute high end. Proving this loss and getting compensated for it is a whole other matter. I'm sure the finances would be...