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I love everything about October weather except the sunsets getting so early

Seems crazy that it would be anything other than a total recount since it's a straight popular vote with no kind of electoral college/etc

Public engagement is supposedly starting in Q1 2026 which should have a preliminary design (30%?). Then I presume they'd take that feedback to advance the design further and bring it back to council before the end of 2026. But that would imply any decision is unlikely until early 2027. January...

Gotcha. I'm not sure how I feel about converting the Macleods to two-ways; I worry about unintended consequences and I think a simple road diet while keeping one-way might be the best. From a pedestrian or wheeling lane standpoint, one-way intersections are actually pretty nice as there are...

I've always thought 1st was a great solution, but I don't think extended cut+cover is a realistic solution given the apparent influence of affected property owners. I bet construction duration is a bigger concern for most owners than the long-term aesthetic/noise/shadow issues (if they really...

I think it was more like 8 prog vs 6 cons before: Conservatives: McLean Chu Chabot Sharp Wong Wyness* Moderates who could go either way but seemed more often progressive than not: Pootmans Spencer Dhaliwal Demong Generally Progressive: Mian Penner Walcott Carra Of course plenty of exceptions...

Ooph, that's a kick to the nethers to see both 1 and 12 likely flip back to conservatives. That puts things 8-6 the other way.

Yup; I kinda meant the challenge of doing those two blocks on 3rd Ave where you'd presumably have a station, too. It looks somewhat trivial compared to the streets around it, but of course they're still important DT blocks (despite the preponderance of surface parking). I was also wondering if...

Assuming Nowak wins I see 6 unknown but probably progressives, plus Dhaliwal (generally seemed to vote progressively, but also did not quite oftent?) Then there's 6 fairly obvious conservatives (including Wyness who seemed like the inverse of Dhaliwal, but I'm happy to be corrected on either...

I think we've seen all of the election day votes counted now. Then each of the advance polling stations seems to count as it's own poll for every single ward. So of the 55 remaining stations in your example, most will have very few votes, while the 5-10 in closes proximity to a given ward will...

I think the key thing is exactly where the ~13m clearance issue: Underground: Have to be deep under for 8 ave, which means you're inherently under CPKC/9th and 7th-4th Aves anyways. Your 7 Ave station is quite deep, but the beltine and north DT stations could be at-grade if you want. (but...

Thousands would have seen the lines yesterday and just skipped it. Many more would have gotten into line and renegged when they saw how slow it was moving (my wife saw at least 2 people with walkers reneg during her 2 hour saga)

The problem is you have to go extra deep under the red line at Macleod and then again at 8 Ave. Cut and cover is better when you can be as shallow as possible. This depth is also why its so expensive to build the downtown/beltline stations. Back in 2015 they did have simpler ideas for a much...

You could run them much much faster with an 8 Ave subway. It would be shame to spend a few years tearing up Stephen Ave to do it though...(wait a minute - we're doing that anyway!)

There is also a plan to use slower streets to the west of Macleod...but they strike me as still having plenty of traffic and lots of parking so I wonder how that will go. For example: Quite a few random driveways along this stretch, so even if they killed all of the street parking curb side...

When the DT segment ends up back in front of council I believe a 'No' vote would put us in exactly that position. Most likely there would be a motion arising with direction to explore another option or maybe even cancel the whole thing, but I actually wouldn't be shocked if those motions didn't...

I think they already re-set the election date for October 2027 (because that one time we had wildfires in May, but of course there's no chance we'd ever have fires into October since August/September are such wet+cool months...or something). There were several reasons why an immediate election...

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I wonder how the amenities in Currie Barracks work? They opened nice washrooms and splash park this summer. The washrooms seem to be cleaned frequently and the splash park seemed to be staffed most of the time (though it just seemed like somebody sitting in the back room...not sure what they...

I think this poll forced 'undecideds' to say where they are leaning. And it seems like those folks generally follow the existing trend of decideds