Recent content by Surrealplaces

Hopefully they can make this work. Much shorter route, plus less provinces involved, specifically one particular province.

I'm not sure how Calgary would compare to Houston or Vancouver. I suspect the issue differs somewhat for all three cities, but I think we need to at least take a run at a housing solution as the first step. The housing could be dispersed into smaller clusters and spread out in different areas. I...

Medicine Hat went all in on the housing first strategy, and it worked briefly, but unfortunately things kind of regressed back to the previous situation. There are more homeless people on the streets now in MH than there was before the housing initiative, but without the housing solution maybe...

Asia traffic will grow for sure. Especially as travel from China increases, even a small percentage coming to Canada would mean good numbers. Combined with Westjet controlling much of the traffic on the prairies and interior of BC, it could work out well for more Asian routes out of Calgary. The...

I believe it's only to do with lack of the outdoor space and if so, we should look into workarounds for urban schools.

Toronto and Vancouver both have a a lot of apartment inventory. Once it's eaten up, it'll be crane city again. The fact that Calgary has been in the mix for the past two years, and is leading this year shows the consistent growth. Great numbers for a city this size, and also the balance of the...

Added Gallery on 10th. Count at 34.

I think Bridgeland is close to critical mass for a grocery store. Aside from some of the bigger projects, there have been a lot of smaller multifamily infills. I would love to see an urban grocer on the north side of 1st ave with 5 storeys of residential on top.

It is for sure. I priced out tickets from Calgary to Tokyo and Seoul back to Calgary, for several different dates and almost always Westjet was the cheapest option. Also that and I ran into a few fellow Canadians (From Toronto, Ottawa, Kitchener, and Labrador) and all of them flew Westjet...

Or some asshat melting the plexiglass with a cigarette lighter. Maybe with young people vaping we won't see that issue.

I flew in yesterday and from the plane was shocked how green Calgary and area is. Usually by now everything's a mix of light green, yellow and brown. If I'm not mistaken, don't la nina years usually have a wet summer?

Housing starts for first half of 2026 (Jan-Jun). Calgary was the leader instead of the usual 3rd place. Not a total shock as Toronto and Vancouver are in slowdowns waiting for inventory to fill before the next building boom. The stat that always sticks out to me is Ott/Gat. It's been very low...

I'm thinking the same thing. Every time there's a proposal and a handful of people oppose it, the media jumps on it. I mean when was the last time we saw the media post a story about people supporting a development?

Yep, Ottawa was falling back, but then added more area to their CMA and leapfrogged us temporarily. If Calgary ever adds Foothills MD, it'll put some real distance between us and Edm/Ott.

Years after, the main planner of the Edmonton LRT project said he wished they had have gone the Calgary route instead of the tunnel. That was a few years back, and who knows he may change his mind now that the systems are built out more. Personally I'm happy with the route Calgary took as it got...