Recent content by lemongrab

I think you could pretty easily jog the nose creek alignment over to Centre St at 64th Ave instead of Beddinton/96th. There's a bunch of ways you could do it - below is about a 100m turn radius and then you keep it trenched until you cross 4 St NE I think it sets you up better for a hub at...

To clarify, his campaign slogan was about doing SE LRT ASAP, right? (not about centre street north?). Based on the timelines from 2005 I posted above jumping straight to LRT for SE wasn't an unreasonable idea (we just did the same for the west line...) The long article outlining the history...

You wouldn't use LF. If Nose Creek happens it'll be because the province wants it to drive their regional rail. Hard to say if the province has thought about branching it into the north-central communities or if the city is receptive to that idea. The key would be getting properly into the core...

I don't think Nenshi did much to initiate any changes - he just took a phone call before the 2015 federal election that turned out to be a poisoned chalice. With hindsight that opportunity could have been managed better - we probably could have asked for more than $4.5B and gotten it - but this...

Maybe they'll develop it themselves with their modular stuff...seems like a good location for small+simple units: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/attainable-homes-modular-1.7600079

This has always been a pretty clear smoking gun to me that BPSFM simply wasn't considered an urgent critical issue, but rather an important back burner issue that would need to be looked at in more detail...eventually. Which was obviously very wrong, but I can understand how/why they landed...

Middle of the pack is highly debatable, and even if it's true it's absolutely embarrassing and inexcusable given we have the youngest population and highest incomes. Better hope you don't get one of the most painful cancers:

Yet its been demonstrated quite clearly that council was poorly informed on all of this. I'm sure you'll be frothing at the mouth just the same when Danielle Smith fails to do anything about the healthcare crisis - and we know for sure that she's been informed of the 6 avoidable deaths in the...

Valley Line West will run west down 104th from 107 St. I'm not sure how long they actually had that in mind though - maybe it's similar to Calgary and Centre St where the idea of a tram never seemed to occur to them until it did?

Airport-DT rail (CADE) should continue beyond grand central station and run elevated down this exact stretch. I don't know that it would improve the vibe at all, but it would at least take away one vehicle lane...

This is a really good point - I was thinking more about how unusual 104th was and how Calgary doesn't really have an equivalent unless you go way out to the burbs (85 St SW is the closest comp I can think of), but it's also true that Edmonton generally avoided our freeways turning into one way...

Yup, it's just that the size of the areas are flipped; Strathcona+U of A are closer in scope to Beltline+Stampede. U of A adds to the youth+vibrancy, but Whyte+109th=17th+14 St SW, but we also have 10/11/12 Aves, 11 St SW, 1 St SW, and even a bit more south into Mission. If anything Oliver is...

26 Ave is another; they had an info session a couple months ago where I suspect they showed details, but they haven't made it onto the main page: https://www.calgary.ca/planning/transportation/26-ave-sw-improvements.html I think the east side of Crowchild is fine, but I'm not sure if the west...

As darwink says there is very little reason for CPKC to even consider it. If the carrot is fully twinned tracks to Banff and up Nose Creek then I'm sure they take the meeting, but they could just hold out for those benefits without giving up anything so substantial. Even twinning Nose Creek...

It was pretty funny last week when everyone suddenly invoked the 2004 McKnight issue as a totally obvious thing that should have had feedermain resiliency at the top of the priority list for the last 15 years...yet I hadn't heard it mentioned a single time since the first break in June 2024. We...