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Random question: who "owns" a +15? The answer seems to be the City of Calgary (here is the policy document) , but I'm sure some of you folks have interesting insights into how this could all play out. My sense from a very quick skim of this document is that the city should have authority to do...

Yup, ultimately it's not that big of a deal, but it eliminated some creative options as these costs erupted. I wish they pivoted to doing the 8 Ave subway for red line, and ran the SE as HF trains down 7th (after interlining with red line under the CPKC tracks). Timing would have even lined up...

Obviously it's much better than 47' above the ground!

It'll be at +45 level, so above all of the walkways. But I hope it will drop to +30 level north of 9th ave so the station replaces the +30 between Core and Scotia Centre. Either way, I think that's the only walkway that should be significantly affected

Great point. I haven't thought too much about north of the Bow - my bias is wanting to avoid unnecessary (and expensive) impacts through PIP/river, but just shooting through elevated the whole time would probably be the best way to mitigate it with this alignment. Of course we'd also lose out...

Trudeau's Dad is still a boogeyman here, so I think we've got at least another 5 decades of hearing about Trudeau Jr.

I'm hopeful that this keeps options open to get to grade just north of 4th and run straight up Centre, but unlikely since they've insisted on the N-S street with the most +15s

The UCP gov't is going to waste a lot of money on moronic and hateful stuff. I prefer when they spend their energy on moronic stuff over the hateful [and moronic] stuff, so I guess this is a win?

Effing bollards are so annoying. Snow clearing on pathway connections all over the city is terrible because of these worthless pieces of metal.

I effing hate this logic in residential areas. I would say this is a stretch where the limit sign is unlikely to influence behaviour much, but who cares. When it does slow people down, that also slows down the people behind them. Of we could just try some enforcement FFS. This stretch is also a...

UD has like 50 acres of pretty much blank slate to play with. GL is more like 14 acres of very not blank slate.

It would be tough to do with the green light timing, but ideally 6th and 9th would run opposite of current traffic flow so [de]boarding happens on the better side of the road.

The rankings are neat, but it would be nicer to see the actual numbers...some of these must be pretty close

To be clear, they changed the unsigned speed limit from 50 to 40. And then slapped 50 signs up on any collector roads that weren't already signed that way. Minimal real world results. Technically you could drive 50 kph by any house in the city not in a playground zone. Now its 40. But there's...

I think she is unfairly maligned most of the time, but I wish she would step aside and hopefully open a path for a fresh progressive-moderate. The ground is fertile for an 'outsider'. Or even a blast from the past like Greg Clark or Evan Woolley...who knows if they'd be interested though.

The worst part is that the 'benefit' side of the equation from travelling faster in pedestrianized areas is so damn weak in terms of overall travel time. Probably +/- one light cycle on most trips. And of course there are several other costs to increased speed (noise, local pollution, etc)

I think the most practical solution would be to put big steel bollards to delineate every single lane at each intersection. It's such a brilliant and effective solution to ensure cyclists don't huck their meat bags into intersections that shirley it would scale to vehicles!

I didn't catch a few of the points in the first three paragraphs, but they really started to sink in with the next three paragraphs