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Engagement is now closed, but I noticed a page for engagement around building multifamily on the south Franklin park and ride lot. Four alternatives were shown; with two different designs for bus loops (a P-shaped loop closer to the station and a smaller Q-shaped loop shown below) as well as the...

If anyone is interested in (part of) the gory details of some of this, I saw a teardown of a Montreal occasional paper tap card (the image below is the antenna that both transmits data and powers the chip; the chip is the dot in the lower right -- they come on a wafer of 100,000 for $9000, i.e...

I think we're going to need to hear soon about the Stampede and what impacts it might have. I don't know for sure if the Stampede has a water use impact (in the way that it obviously has an electricity use impact with all the lights, sounds, etc), but I wouldn't be surprised if it did. From...

This might be too general a construction update for this forum seeing as how it's in a different province, but the Museum of Anthropology at UBC has demolished and completely rebuilt the landmark Great Hall for seismic reasons, and the 85-year old architect (Nick Milkovich) who oversaw the work...

Somehow, between universal quality of life improvements and the brain poisoning of the algorithms, there are a bunch of people out there who don't seem to understand that clean running water, pasteurization, vaccination and so on are massive public health infrastructure achievements that we all...

I don't really think so. First, for the unaware: a superblock is a semi-pedestrianization policy from Barcelona. The figure below shows roughly the scheme: This is the best diagram I can find, but essentially the outer roads around a 3x3 grid of blocks remain more or less untouched, while the...

It's a major building that needs loading docks, I think that can be generally agreed on. Looking at the existing footprint here, there's only two sides that could possibly have loading docks; the southwest side along the LRT tracks and the north side where there's parking. From a...

Well, I guess I was today years old when I learned that Calgary was larger than the Philadelphia and Barcelona metro areas, and as close in size to Montreal as to Edmonton. If the basic facts like population can't be sourced correctly, I'm not sure I have a lot of faith in that site's ability to...

It had this building (which looks to me like probably 3 stories of apartments with a light well and parking under the rear) from the early 60s (built sometime between 1957-1962) until at least 1988: By 1995 it was surrounded by a fairly new looking construction fence: So probably over 30...

Yeah, I concur.

Incumbency has been incredibly powerful for something like a council seat; there are a lot of voters who dislike "city council" but who are fine with their councillor in particular. Part of this is that the incumbent gets to do all of the basic fill-my-pothole, speak-at-my-school stuff of...

I suspect a this will be a big market for them; convention-goers who didn't see the sign-up sheet for the Banff day trip until it was full.

A year from now, the zoning will have been in place for a while and instead of 300,000 homeowners worked up about the bulldozers moving in next door the morning after the zoning passes, there will be 295,000 homeowners who have completely forgotten about the zoning, 2,000 homeowners who had...

It's a bit confusing because in Q1 there were: 24.7M LRT boardings 16.7M Bus boardings, for a combined total of 41.4M total boardings. But there was also: 25.5M total ridership. The first two are long-standing metrics, because it's easy to count how many people board vehicles using electric...

I was interested in your question, and googling around found this paper which talks in general about cycling rates. Inspired by it, I grabbed the 2011 Canadian Community Health Survey, which asks three questions about cycling: One thing that the authors of that paper didn't dig into is that the...

Luckily, we actually have something of a good guide on this; a bus is $750K (a methane powered bus is a few huindred thousand more). A light rail train (full train) is I think $10M or so. Westbrook was recently repurchased for $43M. I don't know how feasible it is (and it's not in the 'quick...

Who's saying that it will? This is one of 98 pieces of the housing strategy that council passed last fall (item 1.C.4). The current expectation is that the average household will have a roughly 1 in 1000 chance of living next door to a parcel that will change because of this zoning. It's worth...

I'm agreeing with you, that the opposition is not mostly old, white men.