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I visited recently as well. I was expecting this No Frills to act more like a Shoppers - where there's a convenience premium to the prices - but it seems they have priced things right in line with regular superstore sale deals. Selection is obviously less than a traditional big-box, but for all...

i do wonder how many more busses you can “create” during rush hour simply but reducing congestion for them downtown. Countless routes are subject to all sorts of bus bunching and delays downtown as a result of lack of priority. In the current state transit needs more busses to do less, as they...

If we are really talking about waste, the biggest issue remains the wasted hours of busses stuck downtown circulating on the avenues. These upgrades don’t help with that but are otherwise a nice upgrade in both formalizing the stops and vastly improving the pedestrian and transit user...

I thought the reason the validators were proposed in the first place is that the automatic people counters on the doors and the amount of ticket revenue had a discrepancy - in that, the number of activated tickets was far fewer than the people riding the train. In other words - fare evasion...

Great news, open Friday to Sunday. I do think they underestimate demand outside weekends for this exact thing in this exact location. There's tens of thousands of pathway users even on a weekday and 25,000 people living within walking distance, and zero competition for quality patios in park...

It's dragged on for a while this one, I kind of forget the original logic of maintaining the existing structure. Seems like the outcome has always been limited by this condition. Nothing I have seen has moved me off my original position - skeptical. I am sure the interior will be better than...

This is anecdotal, but I don’t think what Marda Loop is experiencing is a great example of retail gentrification. There’s been some minor displacement, but the net supply of retail spaces has grown many multiple times over - the high end spots are all in new builds, replacing very little retail...

While not everything is a housing problem, a sufficiently affordable housing supply is a pre-requisite for any other solution to be effective. Tough or soft approaches to policing, relocating facilities etc. none of that will be meaningfully impactful if there's always a poverty pipeline -...

No one said driving slow can’t be dangerous in certain situations, but do you seriously not think that vehicles going too fast is the more common and widespread safety issue on our roads than slow merging on highways? I can’t recall the last time it was reported that a cause of death or...

I hear this rebuttal a lot that slow speed is also dangerous, I’m sure there’s situation-specific stuff available but …. come on, it’s hardly an equivalent risk to the public safety on the roads. I would like to know the ratio between the number of people killed by vehicles going to fast /...

I just don’t think there should be “traps”. Traps imply a trick or something sneaky to catch people. There should be nothing sneaky about it. There should be photo radar so frequently the expectation is drilled in that you are likely to get a ticket if you speed. Enough risk of tickets in...

With modern technology we could govern cars remotely to only be able to drive the speed limit wherever they are. We could get 100% compliance and speeding would be a thing of the past! Of course, such a move would be seen as wild overreach and would never survive the first dose of politics...

The River Hall plaza thing last summer near the LRT bridge was amazing start for this - it had mostly food, beer and music but seemed incredibly well attended everytime I went by. Hopefully it comes back and starts to prove this is a concept that works in other places too. Retail on the river...

Marda Loop could use more “normal” retail. Cool wine bars are awesome and we should always have more of them, but we also need a bit more competition on the more day-to-day end of things. Donairs, sandwiches, convenience stores, bookstore, a normal pub etc. Retail could use more competition in...

This is one of these streets where the sized to fit every possible need (except street trees), including street parking. Then they put front driveway homes on it, removing the ability for 95% of the street parking to occur in reality. So there's a few million dollars of extra asphalt, no...

You'd be correct - it will be a improvement for connectivity and traffic volumes, at least temporarily. It will also end up in a hostile, ginormous concrete canyon that bleaches the potential out of the areas nearby. Here's from the Crowchild long-term plans. Takes the road in many places from...

Springbank to YCC is about 25km, and shows a 25 to 30% difference in rainfall. Illustrates the highly localized rain conditions here.

I also wonder how localized the drought classifications are - so much of Southern Alberta's rain is thunderstorm based, so inevitably leads to high local variations on rainfall totals. For example, Calgary's up to 160mm+ of rain for the month, while Lethbridge is only at 60mm for the month.

Thanks @ByeByeBaby - I was desperately hoping someone with better GIS skills than me would pick up the torch and advance this conversation :)

What you’ll find is the massive drop-off is often still far denser than Calgary’s drop off. Calgarys early suburbs (1960s - 1980s) are remarkably low density compared to many other cities on average, unless they are redeveloping. Don’t have the data in front of me, but recall much of Calgary...