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This is what the Jim Gray group has been pitching and given that the premier and minister have been parroting the Jim Gray group's talking points almost verbatim, my guess is this is what the province is going to deliver. It will be a South East LRT that dead-ends at an elevated station behind...

This article features a nice overview of the lay of the land as the dust starts to settle... https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/green-line-lrt-alberta-control-devin-dreeshen-1.7314983

Very well said. If you hate driving in the GTA you're going to hate the Calgary of 2035 and we will be able to trace the reason why back to today's decision by the UCP.

They manifested their BS warnings into reality. The City did listen to them 6 years ago... back when Gray was engaging in good faith. His group's top ask was an independent board of experts to deliver the project because they were convinced those experts would agree with them about dropping the...

The answer seems to be none. The cost of winding down the project will essentially drain the rest of the City of Calgary's contribution and the scope of changes being demanded by the Province turns this into a new project which means the $1.5 billion from the federal government disappears too...

André Chabot has been a long time critic of Green Line on City Council and yet he absolutely nails the stupidity of the UCP's moves with his quotes in this article. https://livewirecalgary.com/2024/09/03/minister-dreeshen-letter-fund-calgary-new-green-line/

Exactly. In the GTA the province of Ontario calls the shots... but they also share the costs 50/50 with the Feds. If the UCP wants to wear the big boy pants they can open up their big boy wallet

That street is just crying out for a cycletrack

Went by and checked out the RiverHall pop-up today. Definitely a great piece of public placemaking along the river walk. It's open 11am-10pm Thurs-Sat until the end of September. Not sure why they don't have it open on the Sunday and Monday of the long weekend as that seems like an obvious...

Having traveled on both recently, I have to say Air Canada now has the superior product. From their app, to their staff, to onboard experience, to assistance during IROPs. WestJet is not what it used to be and it has a lot of low cost competitors nipping at its heels.

The City of Calgary is launching RiverHall YYC this weekend. It is pop up placemaking at Lot 6 featuring a container bar, live music and rotating food/beer vendors. The city has made a few placemaking attempts at Lot 6 over the last few years that have kind of fallen flat but I saw what they...

Hopefully with all this new development on 4th somebody, somewhere actually decides to plant a few lilac trees as part of their development. I've always thought it's strange the street known for the lilac festival has zero lilacs on it. Thinking about it now, that new development on the corner...

Great they are talking public art but I still feel ripped off we never got the spaceman statue shown in the renderings for their project across the street on the corner of 5th.

Update on the Olympic Plaza design work. While I'm happy to hear that they are contemplating a skating rink in the design, I hope they recognize that what people love about Olympic Plaza currently is that the skating rink has refrigeration so it is one of the only outdoor rinks in the city that...

When I was in there during Stampede, there was a Calgary Stampede merch store in BMO across from the coffee shop and grab and go by the east entrance. Not sure if it's open outside of Stampede time though...

The addition to the Eau Claire Lumber building are public washrooms to replace the old ones that used to be located at the splash park that was there previously. I was hoping the building would have been relocated to be a little closer to the lagoon so that any patio would have a nice view of...

In this case it is definitely worse to be a non-commital owner. Bhatti has said publicly before at Green Line Board meetings that their traffic light risk model went from a yellow light to a red light when they started looking at costing from local subcontractors who were unexpectedly pricing...

The Premier had finally put to bed speculation that the UCP will block the revised Stage 1 from going forward. Assuming the Feds give the thumbs up this week, hopefully we can finally start talking about what happens next for not just Green Line but for transit investment in Calgary instead of...

I enjoy how Sonya Sharp, as chair of the arena committee, gets called out on her shiny stars comment. I think the arena is a good investment for our city but to pretend it is an essential investment and expanding the LRT isn't is just eye-rolling to me...

Funny enough, Air Canada seems to agree about everyone's thoughts on HSR.... https://globalnews.ca/news/10675060/air-canada-tgv-train-company-bidder-electric-fast-rail-project/