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There's just no transportation need for more than 1 lane each way on what is a local road that terminates at 17th Avenue. The street should have a road diet all the way to the Bow River.

There's also a cultural control, related to your point. Society encourages faster speeds than posted limits. People who don't drive a little faster than the speed limit are considered weird, too conservative, or annoying. I experienced this first hand while learning to drive again. I was careful...

Calgary ranked 3rd in the world for liveability: The Economist https://dailyhive.com/toronto/liveable-cities-toronto-global-liveability-index-2022 Not sure why we got top scores for Infrastructure though. Because most people drive and congestion is low? I know most of our other engineering...

Finally they decided to prioritize pedestrians and street life on 1st Street

The curving bike lanes just discourages cycling down that road. I know they want to preserve on-street car parking for the retail spaces but then put the bike lane on the left side of the parked cars so at least the bike lane doesn't curve. They don't curve the sidewalk or the car driving lane...

Calgary downtown has the youngest population. From Stats Can 2021 Census data released today https://www12.statcan.gc.ca/census-recensement/2021/as-sa/98-200-X/2021003/98-200-X2021003-eng.cfm

The 1st Street SW underpass was particularly poorly designed. It actually slightly narrowed the sidewalk width. When designing these places, we have to start from first principles that should never be compromised. Sidewalks cannot be narrowed and here they were. The obvious solution that was...

Some positive trends in the latest Stats Can estimates for Alberta. Interprovincial migration has turned positive for the last 2 quarters. There's also been a surge in immigration, but this is mirrored throughout Canada due to federal policies. Alberta's population actually grew faster than...

It wasn't seen as important by people writing the policy. There are a few examples of main floor bike rooms in Calgary, but they are voluntarily built by developers. Because the policy is so weak on location, City staff have their hands tied. Then there were the cases of buildings that didn't...

Immigration to the Calgary metro area continuing its downward trend despite a record year for immigration to Canada in 2021. Immigrants by year: 2015: 21,700 2016: 21,435 2017: 17,880 2018: 18,950 2019: 19,625 2020: 10,655 2021: 17,690 Source: Government of Canada, Open Data: Permanent...

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Many of the temporary parking lots approved 10 years ago are still there. The permits can be renewed every 5 years basically indefinitely. In my opinion it's dishonest of the City to call them temporary.

My impression when I worked there was that it was. Surface parking was seen as a good temporary use when a building had passed its useful economic life. There was even less scrutiny when a public agency like Transit or Police wanted a new surface parking lot.

I'm seeing a DP for a temporary parking lot on Calgary's Development Map

https://www12.statcan.gc.ca/census-recensement/2021/dp-pd/dv-vd/cpdv-vdpr/index-eng.cfm Census Program Data Viewer Click on Geographic Level. Select Dissemination Area from the menu. There are a few steps to go through. It's a bit clunky to use. I recommend searching by postal code rather than...

By comparison, Edmonton only has 1 dissemination area over 36,000 people per square km and it's not even downtown. It's by the university on the south side of the river. It tops out at 50,000 people per square km.

I was playing around with the Census Viewer and these are the 5 densest dissemination areas in Calgary. They're all over 36,000 people per square km and 4 of them are in the West End. The middle of the 4 in the West End tops out at 73,000 people per square km.

These are measures of density, not urbanity. It would be hard to argue that downtown/Beltline have better residential towers, architecturally speaking, compared to some of the beauties in Mississauga. We haven't been awarded any building of the year prize for our condo/rental buildings. It's...

Interesting that the Mississauga and Burnaby downtowns are a little more dense than downtown Calgary See Table 4 https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/daily-quotidien/220209/dq220209b-eng.htm?HPA=1

2020-2021 saw a natural increase of 7,624, the lowest level in 20 years, even as the population has increased considerably since then. So per capita it's the lowest it's been for more than 2 decades. That may be a pandemic blip, but our natural increase has been steadily declining since the...