Recent content by whatchyyc

Yeah they wanted to empty the landfill then sell the land for TOD

Block plan for reference:

It's probably a way for them to build a bus loop at Seton station to have capacity for feeders. A two lane road paved on top of the alignment won't be too wasteful especially if they design the utilities to be converted

Starting to see progress on 8 Street SW

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/attainable-homes-modular-1.7600079

the entire stretch from 11 St to Macleod, west of Stephen Avenue they're putting in new sidewalks and raised cycle tracks

In terms of connectivity it's obviously important, just that what's actually there is a gigantic loud dirty canyon with dangerous intersections that have killed multiple people

Squint and it's just like Glenmore, giant trench with a SPUI and diamond pedestrian blender We're forever doomed to repeat the mistakes of the past

I'm looking forward to the conversion, if they do it well and it ends up like the renders I'm gonna prefer it over the original especially the ground level.

Stephen Avenue is supposed to have soil cells, maybe also water tapped off from the pipes underground as well but I'm not sure if that's made it past the concept plan

I wonder if that hole specifically is for an external elevator similar to the Place 800 conversion

Apparently this is just a weird thing where grade is separate from the floor heights, and grade relative to the floors is actually 100m

I don't think they're bad, just that they're too far away and made to serve a massive area. QP is more accessible and a nicer size for an urban neighborhood

Btw the new Centre Street MAX stations have blue plastic TWSIs set into the concrete and they're much much better done and have blank decision points and visually pop from the concrete much better.

I'm not sure if they actually left the sand there. They were filled right to the top of the sidewalk level and the slabs are at least a few inches thick