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Stampede Grandstand is by far the best option Stamps are drawing 18-25k for everything except a few more for the Labour Day game, and there is every reason to expect future decline is more likely than growth. You'd barely have to set the new grandstand any further back than the current infield...

That's one of many secondary reasons for me - though I wish we would learn a lesson in how we lay out new communities. My primary complaint is that its a futile and expensive game of whack-a-mole. A "successful" outcome here is that they'd also need to widen 15 more blocks on Bow Trail, build...

I'll gladly accept the charges as a NIMBY who wants the land used for more housing in my backyard, instead of roads. I'd love to see another 10 row houses on the east side of the Strath temp access road. And a bunch of units on the NW corner where I drew earlier. And they should build the direct...

Sorry for spamming this thread, but there is some interesting stuff about the engagement process through to the 'What we Heard' report. I believe City Council just had a motion about concerns around the engagement process. This situation is a great example. Here is the high-level summary...

I just had a chance to look at this a little more closely, and this is way worse than I initially thought. For starters, the two "options" are essentially identical, except for WB-SB loop vs a bunch of left turn lanes. But they want to move the SB Sarcee lanes about 40 meters to the west. The...

I imagine a lot of these units will be upscale and target wealthy retirees (based on nothing, but it makes sense to me for this location...its hard to picture a bunch of 1bdrm units here), so if you're an older person who already likes to access this complex then these towers would be a...

There is little opportunity for development at Bow/OBCR (though there is a hectare on the NW corner that would be ideal to plant a few hundred trees), but there is a prime parcel closer to Sarcee. There are developments backing closely onto Sarcee just to the north of here...it would be pretty...

Phase 2 of Bow/Sarcee Engagement is open TLDR: One more lane, bro!!!! But there is a lot of interesting stuff in here, though for me a lot of it doesn't add up. Well, the good news is that if we build an interchange here then we get to build another interchange up the hill soon, too (I use...

Calgary is building plenty of midrises - e.g. Currie/Marda, West/Springbank, University District as somewhat proximal competitors to this area. Glenmore Landing makes sense for towers, and there isn't really anywhere nearby suitable for mid rise. There may be a bunch of other sites that seem...

Just checked it out, that is very good. Too bad there is no browser option (or enabled to run ios app on mac), as I like a much bigger screen for bike route planning. For my purposes I wish I could filter off the transit lines (or at least reduce it to showing the stops only), as those lines...

Do you mean these https://www.calgary.ca/bike-walk-roll/maps.html ? The online interactive map isn't great...it might be better if you could get a satellite view

Upside(s) I can see are: 1. reduces crossing distance for pedestrians + increased visibility The question I have for the planners is do they want motor vehicles to use 15th for anything other than local access (ie. 1-2 blocks)? Currently there is a stop sign or light at every single...

It creates a few big problems - say lights are green E-W, you may have pedestrian(s) waiting to cross N-S exactly where the bike wants to travel. I've recently experienced it where two peds and a dog made it impassible. Another issue I see is that it essentially puts cyclists onto the...

City wants province to take it. Province wants city to do it. Green Line Board seems to want to wash their hands of it, too...I didn't realize the board was still winding down, but I wonder if it's because the board members simply want out? Not good if the governance reverts to council, in an...

This is fairly tangential, but if you ever watch a council meeting about the GL you'd hear from her a fair bit (though you'd likely hear from her in any council meeting involving significant spending) City of Calgary CFO Carla Male and the director of corporate planning relieved of duties

Not really surprising, but it's definitely not a good sign that he wants to jump off the ship without a lifeboat lined up:

Here's the area in question: Why not a loading zone on the south side of the street? It is a bit interesting the way they've done the green parking graphic there...the word 'PARKING' is actually a driveway (also note the car parked closest to the intersection is right in front of a hydrant on...

I feel like I've seen fully at-grade mentioned quite a few times, which seems odd given the CPKC tracks. Perhaps this does mean terminating on 10th ave further west? Also interesting to wonder how they define 'downtown'. I'd wonder if that meant crossing the CP tracks at/before the Elbow...

It would improve the weave situation where the 4th lane and the greyhound route both enter at the same time. The main bottleneck would be under the 14 St bridge. I can see how you might preserve 3 WB lanes through there if the 14th St SB lane wasn't exit only Scooch the barrier to the...

A lot of interesting variables here - we're supposed to get news on 11th St underpass in fall 2024. I wonder about making 11th St NB only. There's a lot to piece together, but it looks like 50-100 vehicles go SB at either peak, and almost all of them continue SB through the rail crossing (only...