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Afailk nothing for the station (it did get an internal refresh a few years back), but if they were to do something I would love for it to just be reclad with new black panels to replace the old faded ones

Honestly at this point it's pretty up in the air what kind of construction they'll use, it could be box girders like the Sunalta guideway or a more traditional girder flyover similar to a highway overpass

According to the city 16 of these are massive 2.3m piles

https://www.calgary.ca/planning/city-building-program/city-building-program/the-street-manual.html

One thing that's been mentioned about these is keeping a large stock of blocks in storage as replacements so hopefully that doesn't become the case

Somehow missed this but renders for the new Walden fire station + library, architect is hcma and HEREBY:

Valley Line was clean looking enough, but the fabric on the bus was putrid. I hope TransEd gives them a steam clean often but at the same time I doubt it

Tbf, the segments with the doors are completely open. But on that note I was pretty surprised by how open Edmonton's new Hyundai-Rotem LRVs are: I hope our next batch can follow suit edit: actually I remember hearing that our specific LRVs are the 100X variant with solid axles, that probably...

Driller on site for qLab.

Guadalajara Line 4 is more akin to the aforementioned Montreal REM and leans a lot more towards the light metro category than the kind of HFLRT we have. But I do think the Red Line should one day be upgraded to a higher standard with open gangway trains and automation but fwiw, Green Line...

Put up with the 2 years of construction and now you've got a brand new street at your front door with bike lanes, trees, and wide sidewalks to take you all those places

It seemed pretty busy, a few groups walking around the sales centre and more people hanging out on the site after taking a look and grabbing some food. I didn't get a chance to talk to any of visitors, but with the prices and earlybird deals I'd imagine there was lots of interest in actually...

No idea, could be any of the other smaller sized stores we've seen around the inner city