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Ottawa also isn't building enough housing. I'd imagine they have the demand even with some federal cuts. It really is eye changing how much development happens here vs the GTA/GVA/Ottawa areas. Not even large towers, but just infills, row houses.

How difficult is it to make one of the lines low floor? I'm curious if they'd lower the platforms or raise the tracks. Curious if any cities have done such a retrofit. If we were to build another surface line downtown, it should be low floor, so we don't have the massive station area which makes...

With any community, there are always going to be a group that oppose all development, a group that supports anything and everything, and a group that has genuine concerns. I think it's a bit reductive to say here are some NIMBYs so all concerns must just be NIMBYs. If someone was proposing a...

Curious if it's going to be a public rec centre operated by a third party (i.e. Westside, MNP, YMCA, etc.) or a tenant only "rec centre" with some basic amenities. I know they have one in the Mahogany condo communities. Same with the library, is it CPL library? If it's CPL I'm not sure how much...

Not all of them were leased by Truman, it's only the ones where the owners wanted to utilize the rental guarantee. But every month they don't lease it out, it's like 10-20k cash going out to owners for the guarantee. The rental guarantee was pretty necessary in Calgary at that time and may be...

If you want a current example, Frontier has the same rental guarantee. Obviously it only recently opened, but high vacancies. https://www.rentfaster.ca/properties/110-18a-street-northwest-calgary-629068

And even if they don't take that bus, if the person next to them who was driving is now on that bus, there's less traffic for them. It's always the sell for transit priority projects but two lanes is a pretty small price.

The 8th Ave Subway idea, is that primarily to just move 1 line underground to increase throughput? And we'll have both 7th Ave and 8th Ave with transit? This is obviously unlikely to happen but I wonder if it's possible to change the alignment so one of the lines go through the beltline? With...

I can't speak to all of them, but they're doing a raised intersection at 19th street and 2nd Ave. I contacted the city and they said the raised section is about half the heigh of the sidewalk. So it's not as dramatic as the ones they have in the YYC parking (full crosswalk height) and maybe...

https://calgaryherald.com/news/frequent-u-s-flyer-calls-calgary-airport-customs-change-idiotic “This decision by YYC is idiotic. They are exactly exasperating the very problem they claim to be trying to resolve,” Rouette said. He said the airport “is now creating a crush of people at the...

I see far more often it's on the protected lanes that other bikers don't look. The lane makes things feel safer, except it's not much safer at intersections. I support protected lanes, I just wish more bikers are more careful for their own sakes, even if they shouldn't have to. Like if a dump...

They might own it but it's all financed or with third party investors (like how this one is with Louson and unnamed banks that did the debt). It's like people "owning" their homes, but really they only own their equity portion and the rest is owned by the lender. And the problem with real estate...

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/stats-can-job-growth-1.7583591 "The province saw a net gain of 30,000 new jobs, with 51,300 full-time jobs created and 21,300 part-time jobs lost."

The same thing we're doing. City says it's necessary, businesses complain. City delays the timeline, makes the project more complicated, and businesses complain it's "always under construction!". And once something happens (pipe burst), residents stand up and say why didn't the city replace the...

With the new hotel and likely future residential near the grounds, some form of year-round activity would get a huge boost!

Developers don't usually fail because of one project or even buildings not selling. It's a tight cashflow business with pre-sales on one, funding construction on the other. If business slows, if they don't plan properly, you run into a cashflow crunch pretty quickly. Sometimes it's not even the...

Agree 1000%. the recently scaled down the GO Train expansion because of cost, even though many trains travel like snails that busses are faster during non-rush hour. If they cut corners now, it'll be a generation until they're revisiting it and the cost now is going to look so cheap.

Was this on a right turn? The article was pretty light on details and even on a right, it's the driver's responsibility to shoulder check? Not sure why it's framed as an "unfortunate accident". However, I don't think a protected lane would help in this case. I've biked on the re-done Montgomery...

Is it time to revive the McMahon stadium relocation to Victoria Park? A smaller stadium could probably double as a concert venue for two weeks in the summer? My dream would be a flex style stadium that can host football, soccer, concerts, where the seating is modular and can be relocated based...

For design elements yes, because I think those sometimes change with procurement timing and cost. They can't depict a specific lamp post style because maybe they go with a different vendor. However, the exact street layout is usually shared in advance down to exact measurements of width and...