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The pay for parking was the least offensive part of the package for me. As part of this they were also putting in a giant overflow parking lot that would have tripled the amount of parking spaces, eating up the grass and park space. The whole exercise is a good reminder of just how amazing the...

7th Ave is interesting - it's got to be near the top of the list for highest capacity at-grade rapid transit lines around the continent. How they achieved this is was absolute signal priority, not just on 7th, but for downtown as a whole to keep LRTs moving including across all the major...

did they ever publish or engage on this? I don't recall ever seeing a concept or plan - I know they talked a lot about the opportunity during the pandemic to reallocate road space to buses downtown, but never got around to it.

It's like the 1990s suburbs but walkable, multi-family style! Reminds me a bit of contemporary German suburb, lots of same-ness but walkable and multifamily.

I would have a hard time seeing how businesses would prove harm through "injurious affection" here, which I think the Municipal Government Act is the clause they are referencing. I am no lawyer so take all this as a "hot take" from an uniformed casual observer: Generally, cities can't be liable...

I also ride in from the area on most days - cycling is for sure the way to go for that distance. It's the only mode of travel that is reasonably short and 99% reliable for expected trip time. Next time I need a new bike it will be an e-bike and that eliminates the hill to get into Marda making...

The reason was there was a plan to have Max Yellow cross through Richmond Green into Currie at one point. That would have required the bus to turn onto Crowchild at 33rd, so the stop had to be on the on-ramp. That plan - and most of Currie - never materialized. Which is why you have the bus...

If I was to improve the Max Yellow in context of supporting more development in Marda Loop and creating a more functional system. I don't think I'd add a Sunalta stop until Bow Trail was redesigned more generally, but I'd do a few things below. Probably would save about 10 minutes per trip with...

A main street from scratch - awesome to see. I am curious on the math for this single block - all but a couple of houses turned over to apartments in about 5 years. About 20 houses to 200+ homes? Huge increase, right adjacent to the LRT. Plus all the retail, it's quite a node forming.

This one is coming along nicely. This is a sizeable amount of retail and some attention to detail to allow for a larger, street-facing patio/restaurant. Grows Marda Loop main street by another half-block and a dozen(?) more retail spots. Keeps the area moving up in the rankings of the city's...

It's the bicycle equivalent of randomly removed all road line paint and randomly change the amount of lanes down on Deerfoot and Crowchild from 5 lanes wide to 2 and back again in a 100m stretch. And not just a random spot, probably the single highest traffic spot in the whole citywide network...

Agreed - it's an awkward pinch-point. The new river pathway sections are usually pretty good, but they all often have this same weakness - where the whole exercise is one of environmental design rather than one of active transportation. I get the push is always this public "gathering space"...

There's tons of way smarter people that can talk through risk-transfers and procurement models and how they inflate costs for transit, but on the scope creep side of the physical infrastructure there's always lots of grey area that can easily blow up the cost - or at least not fully account for...

And the Blue Line is a pretty good design, but had is own issues. Here's a public audit done after construction finished, that has some interesting details - some unique, some consistent - with other projects. It didn't seem like a cheap time to build back then, but it certainly looks cheap now...

Someone could probably have written a really niche and monthly blog for 2 decades on the Green Line projects to track all the plot twists and turns. TL/DR: I think the "green line" project was first identified in the 1990s as a transit corridor, but then got serious in the 2010s when the real...

North end of downtown has always struggled as a speculative office building district, parking of the speculative parking lot "ring" of the office core. Inflated and distorted expectations based on a 1980s office model really messed with the area's developability. As things change there's lots...

Oh yeah I wasn't going for accurate to scale. I'd imagine any height would be met with resistance given the context. But its all part of maturing into a big city. It shouldn't be surprising to see proposals for 13 storey buildings popping up from time to time in areas that aren't used to see...

Interesting one to watch if something real actually comes from this - 13 stories would be big for the area, but we are only talking about 25m from 14th Street, 700m from 17th Ave. It's out of scale for existing, but hardly in the middle of nowhere. From the 14th side it's far less dramatic...

This is the type of thing they usually publish ahead of time for feedback, or at least - but it's a Stampede/Event Centre project so information sharing about designs, costs and anything else aren't often a primary goal. Has any details ever been provided on design? 4 lanes? 2 lanes? Pathway...

Very cool - thanks for sharing MichaelS! Will be interesting to watch the lifecycle of this grass roof at a wild sloped angle. Very cool and got some developer money backing, but tricky spot to grow grass!