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Lots of variables are correlated, but there's a few stories we can probably tease out. Income and housing affordability seems to be a big thing in the long-run trends of toddler density. In particular, which places have maintained some relative affordability, and which have not over the past...

Yeah totally - I just don't buy it when plans call out things like "gateway features" being worth highlighting. It's mostly a bit too vaguely "urban designy" for me, and doesn't get at what is the whole point of a "gateway" is. The urban design approach is all about using "gateway features" to...

The premise of signs like this is kind of flawed from the beginning. It stems from a clumsy interpretations of an idea everyone always says in public engagement that sounds something like "Marda Loop is unique and unique places need clear boundaries. People should know they are there when they...

Whether that concept ever happens or not, it’s good to see developers starting to treat pedestrian-only courtyards and corridors between buildings in a multi-phase development as real positive assets and amenities. Seems like a generation of buildings could never figure out what to do with...

If we didn't require public recreation centres to be co-located with acres of parking lots, all configured in some of the least efficient site layouts possible, located in some of the least walkable locations possible, we'd find that our public facilities could easily fit in more urban areas...

Great summer for trees (excluding the hail damage in parts of the city) after some tough ones of super dry and hot. These deeper, soaking rains are really good. Another 30 to 50mm tomorrow too!

Political machinations and opposition from some loud voices in the community aside, I think it was a hard project to oppose, both practically and from a policy perspective. It's a dense, pedestrian-oriented, grocery store with retail, on a Main Street in an identified priority area for growth...

Actually, I agree with this is as the ultimate project - save billions by avoiding tunnels and makes transit more reliable: just create another 7th Avenue. It would improve the capacity of 6th Ave by 3 to 5 times easily.

Surprised there was so little fanfare after all the drama.

Is below what they were imagining? I am struggling to understand exactly what they were thinking back in the 1980s, I don't think the Blue Line existed at the time they planned this? I would imagine the ship sailed on the Blue line component with the Central Library building over the Red Line...

Yes - buses. I actually think the lowest hanging fruit and one of the better value projects for Calgary Transit isn't the LRT downtown, but it's figuring out how to get those hundreds of buses moving on 6th, 5th and 4th Avenues downtown. Enormous delays and inconsistency have been allowed to...

I think if the Stephen Avenue subway is ever built, the capacity freed up for the Blue Line will mean it's would struggle to ever make the business case to build another subway there in all but the longest-term future scenario. One thing to watch (not that closely, but in the next 50 years) is...

Someone once posted a great analysis on the capacity of 7th Avenue. I don't recall which thread but would be great to refer back to if it still exists. 7th Ave is actually pretty incredible for capacity given it's all at-grade, we often overlook how unique it is to function as good as it does...

I mean this is it in a nutshell - it's the secret sauce for Vision Zero approaches the world over. Just physically make it so cars can't go fast enough to hurt someone and 95% of our road safety issues go away. No more (futile) call for more enforcement, people just police themselves by...

The current trajectory of the Stampede reminds me most of a combination of Toronto's Union Station area + Exhibition area. In the shorter term, I think a more permanent Coke Stage - like a proper, 10,000+ person outdoor venue - plus a Rec Room-type place are the more obvious easy ones to pull...

It's an interesting location. Mentally I can't wrap my head around living at the corner of Home Road and the Transcanada as it always seemed like not a real place, its a highway. But taking my bias aside, the location is actually pretty good. Grocery store and a bunch of retail right there...

We don't have many buildings with this profile, but this is quite common in other cities in the world - it's something about how skinny it is that allows it to melt into the background, despite being 15 stories tall. It's the kind of building that seems tall on paper, would trigger a huge...

I think the subway is on the 30 year+ plan, so perhaps they do what they can now but acknowledge that it's probably the next lifecycle of Stephen Ave that will warrant more serious consideration of a subway. I wish it was sooner - I want the LRT to convert more and more to a grade-separated...

Ugh brutal - another year and that life would have been potentially saved. The 26 Avenue SW cycling lane upgrade plans are posted now, existing paint is getting a curb. Construction starts in 2026: https://www.calgary.ca/planning/transportation/26-ave-sw-improvements.html Here's the diagram -...

Given the arbitrary and out-of-the-blue nature of the province's interest in bike lanes, it's pretty clear it isn't a grassroots or real issue. It's just a small example of a 100 others to use a rhetorical culture war tool to rally the base: Create an issue - get everyone talking about it (bike...