Recent content by lemongrab

If we scaled it down from a mega facility with mega parking then it could make more sense to stay, but then it isn't really the same project anymore. I think even better than Shouldice would be this area: Mega parking with the fieldhouse is probably inevitable, but it would be nice if we...

On-It bus services to Banff/Canmore/Cochrane not running this year: https://ca.news.yahoo.com/regional-transit-buses-no-longer-213515853.html Also Okotoks: https://ca.news.yahoo.com/alberta-municipalities-search-regional-transit-201002999.html

This is a radical idea, but I really hate the idea of turning Crowchild into the Grand Glenmore Canyon 2.0. Instead, cut and cover 2 lanes each way one block west of current Crowchild. Convert current Crowchild and 24 St to a Main Street, reclaiming a bunch of prime land close to Uni and red...

Agreed, there are much better synergies to multi purpose ~25k stadium seats for a few different kinds of outdoor sports events. There's going to be some compromises no matter what, but Stampede Grandstand makes the scope of the project way more manageable - you only need another ~10k seats in a...

There's two ways of looking at it - do we deserve to be rewarded for what we've always been doing (building lots of houses), even if it keeps us on a path towards becoming Houston/Phoenix? Or, is the funding meant to incentivize change for the better? The wording is intentionally vague because...

As for "a minimum of four units to be built on a lot for a significant majority of lots across the city", there are lots of questions. I looked at a breakdown of residential land-use designations from 2022 (R1 and R2 will now be a bit lower based on RCG developments and everything else a bit...

It's still a little early for a Mission Accomplished banner... https://livewirecalgary.com/2026/04/22/calgary-to-receive-third-haf-payment-final-cash-is-conditional/ From the Housing Minister to Farkas: Obviously leaving lots of room for interpretation, in multiple ways. And Farkas himself...

I think you'd take the depot out to the transit hubs - for charging and basic cleaning. I wonder about thinking even more radically - could a city enter into a monopolistic partnership with a company like Waymo to handle everything (all rideshare and low volume transit). You still have LRT...

West Village seems well suited for a dystopian chaos zone. And then in 50 years we'll repeat what we did/are doing with EV

I think a lot of winter driving by humans happens at speeds way higher than a computer would calculate to be within a reasonable risk tolerance. Hard to articulate, but days like yesterday most of the time it feels like you're in control while out of control...not sure how a computer would...

Red line north and blue line west (and green line SE) are pretty darn close to full grade separation - at least from cars. I wonder how much savings could be found if operators handed over to autopilot at Sunnyside and Kerby Stations (and then take over the next inbound automated train)? Perhaps...

I wonder how the counters treat cyclists cutting across the middle between SW and NE corner. Those counts seem awfully low, I see active users more often than not. This shows most of the significant inputs and outputs down like 30-50%. The EB-NB turn movement dropped from 919 to 210 in the AM...

Ooph. IMO it's totally insane and just perpetuates the whack-a-mole cycle. It only makes sense if you add lanes down Bow Trail and build an interchange at Richmond Road and add lanes to Sarcee and someday build another interchange at OBCR and another one at 85th and on and on and on. We also...

Only at 12 Ave...for 17th you had to climb the ramp to cross the tracks, and then you could descend stairs on the east side of Macleod if you wanted to...but you could only cross on the south side of 17th and there wasn't even a beg button.

Kinda long-winded and no earth shattering information, but a there's a bit of background on the Liricon/Parks Canada relationship and you can get a sense of what the proponents are like (IMO Adam is pretty reasonable; Jan seems out of touch) Not sure if link is working - its vimeo dot com...