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The report answers this a little bit (though it seems the +15 integration in the report was pretty sloppy), but the only way to get more clarity is more design work. The province and AECOM aren't sitting on answers to these specific questions the city seems to be asking them. The city should...

I'd agree WH is more family friendly, but I'd say Altadore even moreso when you get to ~42nd. Probably not a meaningful distinction, but a subtle vibe difference. I think it might be because in WH you're never more than 300 meters from a busy-ish road (or two) with a fair bit of throughput (5...

Maybe I know you. But username checks out. Money goes further in Altadore - more available supply of nice big houses. Sunnyside/east Hillhurst have expensive small[er] houses (plenty of these in Marda, too), but not as many big ones and harder to find things like attached garage. And the...

I think it's the 35-50 affluent family demo, compared with the 20-35 crowd. Anecdotally, everyone I know in the Marda area fits the first demo. I used to live in Kensington, but moved away at age 34 before first baby turned 1. Nearly everyone I can think of from that area made a similar move...

The big question is whether that is actually more important to them than using it as a wedge issue against Nenshi. Sadly I don't think we'll like the answer - at least at the decision making level of Smith/Dreeshen

Just seems like posturing from the city to solidify the scapegoat. Which is fair enough, I guess, but almost certainly not going to salvage anything for this project. To go back to the Dec 19 letter from Gondek to province...

Big blank slates aren't near existing transit

4th St SE doesn't link to either line very well (550m+); a 10 Ave/1st SW Station would essentially link to the same red/blue stations as current plan (330m). The bigger concern would be overloading the sidewalks at 1st St and 9 Ave. But seeing as 3rd St doesn't really exist, the smart move might...

They've built nice MUPs connecting the whole neighbourhood, set back nicely from the residential roads which are designed pretty well to keep cars slow. So the idea is you can travel actively if you want to the grocery store, gym, restaurants/cafes, spa, liquor store, etc. Topography makes it a...

Apparently terminating south of the CP Tracks could still generate about 80% of the ridership of getting to the core, so I think doing a beltline loop wouldn't have been the craziest thing in the world. It's worth noting that the ridership data was established in 2020 - before shifting...

Interesting. Do you happen to have a link to the granular details of the federal program? I've searched before but its a maze of longwinded pages for similar but different programs, including the next phase replacement program. Everything you wrote makes a ton of sense, but I will say that the...

Not sure elevated on 7th could work without significant disruptions to the red/blue lines? It's gotta be Calgary's busiest street...

Its unclear if their full analysis to reach that 20-30% follows this flawed logic, but using the max capacity of train cars is almost always a silly metric to base the comparison to BRT. Actual ridership projections are what matter, and what fleet/frequency you need to serve them. What is...

No profound point, the broader commentary on this is just interesting (moreso reddit/etc; the discourse here is quite thoughtful). Many of the very same people who scoff at NIMBYs against rezoning or other developments are strongly taking up NIMBY talking points here. I completely understand the...

This isn't any different than NIMBYism with other developments. The final and lasting outcome is never anywhere as bad as imagined. The construction phase sucks, but it passes - though it truly does suck for small businesses. There was a recent article where Bottlescrew Bill's complained about...

This seems encouraging that they might complete the Tsuu Tina Parkway-Westhills Way link sooner than later (which would be a nice cycling link). Currently this does not actually link with Stoney to the west (ie. you can't get there from Stoney SE bound, and you can't get back onto Stoney NW bound)

Drove by this today; predictably half of this new "pathway" was a snowbank, and the other half looked impassable for anyone with the slightest mobility challenge. It's discouraging that this is the result of decisions within the last 15 years, and particularly disappointing that this outcome...

Realistically, this should be the 'build it right' goal for the north, where the efficiencies will actually pay off. It might also be a bit of a 2 stoned birds situation, considering the challenges of land acquisition to achieve the presumptive at-grade option. The initial capital is probably...

This might be a bit of a stretch, but the alternative to building more mass transit will impact everyone directly physically. More gridlock everywhere. Like I say, a stretch...but we could probably zero in on a few corridors in particular (say 9 ave through Inglewood?) that will suffer greatly...