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There is real debate. The illusion of parking likely led to the sustainability of 8th as a pedestrian mall while others failed across north america.

Health of people is explicitly a municipal responsibility under the MGA.

Looks like your eye is right. My thought would be that to provide adequate spacing on the piers, the support structure needed to be built not exactly centre under the bridge.

Thinking about this more: the province owning the thing might be what gives the province cold feet about a near perpetual agreement for the CPR corridor. Which it would be hilarious if the province put in a project requirement without understanding the consequences and has spent years trying...

Tbh it all comes around to framing and implementation. Low infrastructure paint lanes with no signal changes imo make it more dangerous for everyone and annoy people the most. By focusing on high quality implementation where there is excess road capacity, you reduce conflict and created...

Have to be cognizant that the person making these strategy calls lives in Airdrie, and they’re all dumbfounded that a conservative as they define it (somehow freezing municipal taxes) hasn’t been elected Mayor in Calgary or Edmonton.

On bikes they want to bait Nenshi to taking one side, pushing more polarization. It also needs to be seen as a project alongside the introduction of political parties to municipal politics. Except for one perennial complainer, is there a bike lane issue outside of Chinatown that generated a...

The province is the one that insisted the province own the thing, which drastically changed the economics of the project. I believe the pre-airport link, post adding things the province wanted on the CABR, the availability payment was to be $6 million a year, about the same as resurfacing 1 km...

They needed more runway and failed to turn it into viable product. On Reddit, insiders make it sounds like their board was captured by the founder(s), who should have been supplemented or replaced at least a few years back.

Weighting construction time as a cost in the evaluation of bids. Prioritizing time can seriously push costs, as it causes sub-contractors to schedule a fair amount of idle time to ensure their workers and equipment are ready when the project is ready for them. A good part of it we can't...

Their land is booked at $96.5 mm, with buildings and parking lots at another $144.5 mm. If the grocery business can't sustain market rents, I think Co-Op needs to reevaluate its market position. If it is to provide a cross subsidy to lower grocery prices, they should reposition as a low cost...

Acquisitions are also misrepresented in this i think - Willow Park for example. They have a lot of B2B sales and came with 3 distribution centres to support hospitality sales. Co-Op has been rebranding some stores into Willow Park, including Saskatchewan and Edmonton stores. Lots of potential...

The Vancouver project will come later, so a few years perhaps. Burnaby has a 258.4 m tower on the books, but that needs substantial presales. Just as the downtown Vancouver one does. We will see what the sales price is. If the W and JW projects allow units to be put in the hotel pool, that...

Lots of utility work (including to supply festivals with lots of on site power). Constrained site next to a water body, and very close to residential. The incremental expense of relocating programming that was typically on the plaza. Archaeology of the entire site down 2 metres. Integrating...

In the NE for Saddletown, and the Deep SW, along 162nd, are viable '15 minute' cities that can support multiple grocery options (I think a useful metric lacking anything else).

Here is toddler density per km²in the last census, if that is any guide.

Mainline twinning might fit the bill there. Twinning in the park would provide capacity to Johnston Canyon, Caste Mountain and Lake Louise from Banff that would relieve congestion while concentrating demand in already well used areas. Depends on the philosophy, are you concentrating in some...

I think higher speed, lets say 200 kph, is viable with CPR as a partner and twining for key segments. Combined with the Ghost Dam project, there might need to rethink and realignment working with First Nations partners to gain a mutually beneficial agreement and project. If they're way more...

Being opposition leader is a hard slog. As leader in the Legislature, there will be more budget, especially travel budget, and more direct control over communications and strategy, via both being there, and being able to direct staff. The NDP style had been break a story and then juice it for...

Maintaining two major runways same as YVR divided over fewer passengers it sucks. A problem of Canada’s model I guess. But if we changed the model to one where let’s say the feds maintained all the runways, Calgary money would be going to Halifax and Winnipeg — would Calgary end up ahead or...