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With the quantity of nearby and highly walkable retail, it will have far fewer car trips than previous generations of suburbs I think. School and work are obviously big trip categories for much of the population - most of that will happen outside the community, mostly by vehicle given the...

I would be interesting to see how the hotel industry groups estimate demand and a deficit. I'd imagine they are more interesting to look at and a bit boosterish, than accurate and useful. Trends seem to often change much faster than most of these projections are capable of contemplating. For...

When you continually push broadly unpopular policies - particularly unpopular in the cities - you need culture war/wedge issues in the cities to distract. Here's Dreeshen's letter: The funniest/saddest part to me is how the minister can't even reference a specific project or corridor -...

Yeah the "foreign-made" paver thing and the fact people will be unsafe walking near construction fencing near homeless people is where they lost me - it's a total shotgun approach to cast doubts on the project. There's legitimate construction timing and impact concerns that can be discussed, but...

This reference to public engagement seems like a bit of a PR/marketing move more than a risk itself - I cannot recall a building in the Beltline ever being reduced in height due to community opposition, particularly not on the east side. We have that row of out-of-scale ugly condos on MacLeod...

I know we often want every location to be a landmark and stand out, but this one seems to be a good opportunity to just be competent - build a livable, high density tower neighbourhood here with good street walls and trees. Add 2,000 units downtown in a 8 phase tower development with boring ol'...

This type of development and it's location are so important - a little pocket of walkable retail on a suburban car sewer that hasn't lost all it's land use productivity potential through arterial/freeway-ification. Start training up suburban Calgarians (and the transportation department) to...

It's The Calgary Way - downtown land is apparently so valuable it only has two possible uses: unkempt gravel surface parking lots or multi-billion-dollar shiny glass towers.

I am amazed Truman can financially support the level of development they are. Thinking back to their size only a decade ago, that's a wild amount of scaling up they have done. Add another $1.5B to their portfolio with these hotels. Impressive stuff. To see this one through, just got to hope we...

Lol - so much for my theory on some sort of correlation between height and unit count. Units and heights are just random numbers :) 69 Storey tower = 157 room hotel + 239 residential units = 396 units total 62 Storey tower = 248 room hotel +120 residential units = 368 units total 14 storey...

Cool stuff - that would probably push the towers over 200m I think? If Toronto condos with residential floor heights are any indicator, 60 - 70 stories seems to be 200 to 225m range (weird roof points and mechanicals add some uncertainty of course)

Ah the memories... the saga of the 1st Street SE idea dates back to the original cycletrack debates in the late 2000s. It was proposed as a key corridor, but ultimately, it was sacrificed as a corridor to win over a few Council votes, resulting in the cycletrack being approved (and continues to...

I mean that is clearly not the case in practice or it wouldn't have take 3 years of arguing to fix a 40+ year old issue. And this quote from the article is perfectly sums up the 1984 level of double-speak that goes into the traffic engineering world. Does this sound like walking and cycling were...

Awesome - that solves a suprisingly long detour from Bridgeland and the LRT to access St. Patrick's Island, it's about a 15 minute walk today. This would shave off ~13 minutes, plus address that awkward pinch-point on the north side of the river.

I think it always comes down to design and context - pedestrian bridges, tunnels etc. can be better for pedestrians by creating direct routes and saving brutal time-wasting detours from the path of travel. Key word is "can". Not downtown, but the simplest example I could find is some of the...

Love census mapper, really can see the redevelopment wave opening up areas to new families (while older areas that didn't have few toddlers and new families). I like the census data because it can create counter-intuitive counter-points to prevailing themes and vibes that people think are true...

Exactly. using the existing CPR track is the "cheap" route to do it, which is why that strange bid from Banff kept proposing it. It's only real advantage is it's a cheap and quick to do. Ultimately you could run trains very soon if you don't care about reliability and speed, and save a ton on...

As demonstrated the world over in countless ways, beyond a certain concentration, cars are too inefficient of space users to provide mass mobility. First question is often forgotten but important - "should we do something at all when dealing with congestion at this park?" Is it important that...

Widening of the pathway is a key thing they need to do in a bunch of places, this area is near the top of the list. I support that kind of thing, because it actually is addressing the park's problem - it's very popular and can get crowded. The response to increase in park demand should be build...

The pay for parking was the least offensive part of the package for me. As part of this they were also putting in a giant overflow parking lot that would have tripled the amount of parking spaces, eating up the grass and park space. The whole exercise is a good reminder of just how amazing the...