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The consensus of the media and the other parties was that unilaterally changing the system would be tantamount to rigging the system. To the point where to kill reform, the CPC cynically insisted that the opposition have a majority on the committee studying it, insisted the Greens be included...

They have no leverage. And the NDP HATE ranked ballots. They want a non specific version of perportional representation that is never defined to maintain ideological purity, with none of the constitutional hard parts or practicalities laid out. Yeah issue by issue.

The province owns the ROW on the bridge across the north saskatchewan and corridor from the legislature to the existing CPR line.

There was at least one option I remember with 200 kph passenger rail mixed with freight on two shared tracks, both entirely rebuilt. Might have been the JetTrain CPR alignment?

Caps speed at around 200 kph. The cost you might save, you end up having more grade separations, and revenue drops due to the speed drop. TBH 200 kph, with stations that have passing platforms everywhere, I could go for. Run expresses and locals, and turn the entire corridor into hybrid...

There have been multiple corridors mapped out over the years. That highway is straighter with a much wider median. Plus it would be impossible to get environmental approval otherwise.

I doubt that would be the case.

This has been examined and rejected -- limits the design speed too much so reduces revenue more than the potential cost savings. Plus raises capital cost, all that crash barrier needed. .

There are tradeoffs that could happen. Switch all the lights to 4 phases like 17th and 14th. then you can shrink the street. Tradeoff is longer pedestrian wait times, and for 12th, likely a need to run a bike lane phase.

looking at the property lines (turn off imagery to get a nice property lines map), I think there is room to expand without major major costs. The road will get a bit curvy to adapt for it.

At what? $75 million dollars? $25,000 each? I'm just supposing that the $75 million could have been spent in ways that attracted 3000 more residents and created a benefit for the rest of the city at the same time.

I'm not sure any european country has runoff voting for a position other than president. Ireland has single transferable vote in multimember constituencies, but I'd argue that is a proportional representation system that allows candidate selection by voters, not a run-off system. I'd also...

I hope an outcome of this election is that instant runoff is seen as more viable. The efficiency problem nor strategic voting is as much of an issue. Regional parties can still be represented.

It has converted property yes. I still argue that the program had the wrong metric at the start, and that some more creativity could have led to similar results with more public benefit. Like the Post-Secondary conversion, that is a much better result imo.

February isn't when I would measure 'mission not accomplished. With plenty of travel booked close to a year in advance, and a lot more than 4 months in advance.

Feb being down just because it has fewer days this year is a bit of a laugh. Otherwise, feb domestic and transborder up 0.4%, international 8.2%!.

That might be a bit high. 4 days of advance over the holiday weekend brought out a lot of people who would normally vote on election day.

would be the best case scenario. very interesting!