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Wow the TUC is ginormous. In a unintentional way, it's practically a greenbelt - it's so wide there's got to be millions of additional costs just to cross it with any utilities and bridges. I wouldn't be surprised if development was ironically slowed down from the creation of the TUC/ring road ...

Memorial is one of those "Calgary-special" roads where it's a lot of different types of road all along it. Makes it tricky to talk about in it's entirety, given it's role/design dramatically changes based on local context. East of 36th Avenue NE, it really acts as a far more "local" major...

This is the kind of information you'd think it would be relatively easy to find, but isn't. Surely there's some public information about fleet plans, conditions and characteristics, budgets priorities (that are understandable to the public), progress reports etc.

How did they convince the engineers they didn't need high-speed slip lanes for all turns at major intersections?

MAX Orange is one of the busiest in the system, starting from nothing 6 years ago. Why? Excluding waiting, the bus flies. 24 minutes total travel time v. 18 minutes by vehicle. Once you include parking, it's absolutely competitive in travel time. It's obvious - a straight, direct line, no...

Despite a record 700+ speakers and what is for sure the longest Council meeting ever, I wonder how much council and administration time/money was saved by doing like 200,000+ properties at once rather than all these coming in one at a time over the next 100 years? Usually when red-tape is cut...

That was my first impression too, but looking a bit closer there's some intention here: that diagonal cut-through the whole site is directly lined up to access the LRT station, and connects a bunch of off-busy-street daycare with only minor interior circulation roads and retail. The LRT plaza...

NE has had explosive growth for a long time, ideally both extensions happen but I can get why the NE one always ranked higher. Lots of significant (by suburban standards) density already built in alignment to the future LRT: And it's not like the NE is slouching on density, such as this...

I get that logical plan - but this is highway building we are talking about. They said the same thing when the ring road was proposed. Never in Calgary have we built a road that resulted in the "downgrading" of another one. If we just build one more road project, it'll take pressure off the...

What I want is for 16th to gradually transition to something like Broadway in Vancouver, also a 6 lane loud road but light-years further advanced towards a walkable urban version of that kind of place. Part of this is just development (and walkable, pedestrian-oriented development design) but a...

One point I am trying to make is that it's incredibly unlikely a Detroit-style collapse would happen in Calgary (or any Canadian city). Winnipeg's "decline" in a sense was not a real drop in anything. Just a relatively decline in importance and growth compared to others. The impact of an event...

Where's this graphic from? It would be super interesting to see the "bus per day" on all road segments citywide. Calgary Transit really makes it difficult to get a citywide picture of frequencies and service quality differences between routes as a network. I'd take a guess Centre Street sees...

That's quite a large excavation. I keep forgetting this isn't a small development - 189 units + a grocery store is fairly significant, especially for the area. If we ever can find a way to reduce the volumes and speeds on 16th to make it even slightly more pleasant to be on while walking, we'd...

Trains are great. But more broadly we should convince transit that competing with cars is its objective. You can connect the airport a hell of a lot better today, spending the same money as you do today, if you want to actually be competitive to your competition. Just route that 300 down...

Apologies for a long one, this is an interesting topic for me. Cars & Highways I don't think the "white flight" and industrial relocation were as tightly correlated in the way you are suggesting. They occurred within roughly the same time periods but were brought on by somewhat disconnected...

The extent in which "white flight" happened is often under-estimated. It's a huge issue when a large portion of a City's population abruptly decides to leave the city in massive numbers (by going only a few kilometres away to a different tax jurisdiction). This is always a huge missed part in...

It's such a weird problem - unlike other "potential" TOD (i.e. Anderson), Westbrook has demonstrated substantial infill demand for years in the all the areas around station. Real development, not just plans. You'd think that Matco would have figured out how to leverage this demand after all...

Great summary. Would love to see an "urban format" hospital in Calgary one day. Something along the lines of Hospital row in central Toronto which has more-or-less infilled a few large hospital sites with more towers and infrastructure over 100 years. Great subway access: Or either of the...

Isn't the idea for the floorplate of the Chumir to grow as needed over time? which is why they kept the surface lot for future expansion?

I know there's studies that talk about how retailers tend to under-estimate the amount of people who go to their business by walking and bicycling. Would be really interesting if there was a Calgary study about 17th Ave specifically. For places like Trolley 5 and the Ship and Anchor, I have a...