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I think these are the differences that are/would be visible in both images -- all additions except for Stadium Shopping Centre (which is addition by subtraction): There are other additions on the U of C campus, the ACH, etc. that wouldn't have been there in the initial picture.

Was going through my mom's old photos a few days ago and found this beauty of the McMahon area from a hot air balloon from 1987.

Thanks for the link. What a stupid piece of engagement. It's a systemically important connection, connecting the Elbow and Bow pathways.I regularly ride through there, and the open pathway on the west bank of the Elbow is too narrow and is badly deteriorating. This link is even more important...

Why have a stuffy old Main Street like this: When for only hundreds of millions of dollars you can have a new, vital, climate-emergency-friendly Main Street like this:

I think I might have been the one who counted the 190. It's important to note that the parkade in the old designs was separate from ~40 event-level stalls accessed from the loading ramp next to the home dressing room, presumably intended for Flames players and coaches. I'm about as anti-car as...

It seems reasonable to me that there would be a fourth hub in Canada, given that there's 3300 km and 18-20%+ of the country's population between Toronto and Vancouver. The three major US airlines each have a hub in the Mountain time zone, even though Denver, Phoenix and Salt Lake City are...

One thing about Dollarama that is a little underrated in urban communities is that they provide a really broad range of goods, which is convenient for households who don't want to make the trip out to a suburban mall. It's not generally great stuff, but sometimes I don't want the 5-star...

Hoo boy, that's an old count. I know it's the most recent available, but it's over a decade old. A couple of points: 6 hour counts don't include evening or weekend traffic which I would expect would be high for accessing a shopping centre and regional park Comparing the 2012 to the same...

Does anybody out there have schedule info for On-It during the summer this year? I can see the late fall schedule if I dig around on their website, but that's less than the full summer schedule was, and archive.org only has a snapshot from April before the schedule info came out.

Sorry to disappoint you, but I'm just saying what the last design had. Two separate ramps, with two street interfaces, going in two different directions to physically separate facilities. Yes, they were near each other, and they probably will be near each other, but they do not have to be. And...

Weird nobody worried about 5000 homes in Cranston with only three egress/ingress points. The good thing about a small area is that people can walk out if they need to on the two pathways or even across grass; a big area like Cranston forces people to use their cars to go through the more limited...

The needed vehicle access for event centre loading and the optional vehicle access for the parkade so the 100 richest guys in the city don't have to walk across the street are completely separate. They were completely separate in the previous design, with different entrances (although the two...

Some interesting concepts. Four of the five do the most important thing IMO, which is create a separated bike path all the way to 14th St. (Braiding Waters has a confusing mix of random pathways crossing each other.) It's great to create new opportunities, but that's the one that is an actual...

I think you're 100% right; I was talking about the best thing to do given building cycling in industrial areas, but industrial areas are absolutely low ROI, for so many reasons. I don't think this is a very strong argument. For one, of the 7 km between Elbow and Bow, 1.2 km of this is in mixed...

Industrial areas are such low density, it's really hard to service them effectively. A lot of industrial areas are in the ~3000 jobs per sq km range; as a comparison, if you built 1.6 km of cycle facilities connecting Barlow and 52nd St SE, there would be roughly 5000 employees of the buildings...

If he was really concerned about the sewer capacity in his community, you would think he would produce a smaller crock of shit.

I think that ground floor retail that provides street life and neighbourhood amenities would be the best feature of any building. 99% of the time you see a building, you are either viewing it from a distance, in which case the ground floor isn't important, or you are walking past it in which...

That's entirely possible; and it would be even more darkly hilarious for them to put back the concrete bike rider protectors on like August 30 just to send out another crew to remove them on September 4th or whenever.

Went past here yesterday; looks like the concrete blocks keeping cyclists safe are being removed. Here's a pic I took: Shoot. Accidentally pasted from the Calgary Transportation Plan. Wish whoever came up with and approved that was in charge of what happened on city streets; life would be a lot...