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I was having a look at MAX station walkable catchment areas and estimating the 2021 population within 400m and 800m of each stop; here's the stops on the Yellow Line: And here's selected stops on all of the lines, with LRT stations outlined and the line-level average on the right: The...

And then the final statistics: Here's the shares by the four measures (in order: DU raw density, DU buffered density, population raw density, population buffered density) And the final statistic of the share of population in high density conditions as well as the classic population-weighted...

And here's some cities to compare with us (all the same scale): Winnipeg Edmonton Ottawa Vancouver Montreal Toronto

I've been playing around with this for a little bit. A couple of methodological notes, first. The first thing is -- as I posted above -- in some ways dwelling unit (DU) count is a better proxy for built form than population. (Particularly since the built form lasts longer than the population; a...

It's weird that they put together a piece like this for the second location of something; there's been an H-Mart on Macleod Tr by 17th for three years; in one of those traffic-harried retail bays that had sat empty for most of a decade. It's not bad; I recommend the Ritz cracker sandwich with...

Couldn't help notice the difference:

Density is a subtle thing, and population density is not a pure measure. Imagine I had a friend who wanted to move to Calgary but wanted to live in a new home in a low density location. I could tell them that I'd found them a place in a dissemination area with a density of 827 people per sq km...

Year after year after year of mediocre product, and not only are the suckers fans lining up to fill the seats, they're paying billions to build you a new facility; I wish it was only a fantasy!

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...