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My thoughts about this are that there are (broadly) four groups of things behind the drop: 1). General antipathy to the US because of their threats to our country 2). Specific concern about travelling to the US because of security issues at the border, etc. 3). Low Canadian dollar - this is...

I was just going to post this as well! Here's the original report; https://www.oag.com/blog/canada-us-airline-capacity-aviation-market 75% reduction in April transborder bookings (1.22 million in 2024 and under 300K in 2025) and similar reductions all through the summer vs March 2024. But the...

I didn't mean to imply any causal relationship between the assessment and the sale decision. I'm not buying anywhere. Not really interested in that right now. It's a fairly generic property; a 25 year old suburban townhouse condo (so no zoning or lot type or any other redevelopment...

My property assessment went up 28% year-on-year. I'm putting it on the market; the realtor's estimate (which was also exactly the same as what I'd come up with independently before contacting him) is less than 2% over the City assessment.

Absolutely we are, in the same way we were 120 years ago: and 60 years ago: and 30 years ago: All three images come from this post in the essential Construction Physics newsletter, by Brian Potter who spent years working for an automated construction startup. Construction has a ton of...

I'm pretty sure the province still designs their freeways for 130 km/h; certainly feels like that's what people drive it at.

So the first commercial project in the 'Village Centre' consists mostly of: Gas station with drive-through carwash Drive-through A&W Drive-through Starbucks Drive-through bank Drive-through restaurant (hopefully McDonald's -- there's been one announced, but it's not in the DP plans, so that...

The minimum stations would be Westbrook, Foothills, U of C and Brentwood. An expanded set of stations could include University District/ACH, Parkdale, Spruce Cliff. So 4 attendants minimum, up to 7 total. The route 9 takes 34 mins to go from Westbrook to Brentwood; add in a 6 minute...

I think the building catalogue is a good idea (as mentioned, derisk developments -- especially for newer/smaller builders but also in smaller markets where missing middle units aren't going up all the time). And there's a lot of good in them; a good mix of bedrooms, accessible ground-floor...

Peak "We have Copenhagen at home" energy.

Peak "We have Copenhagen at home" energy.

The obvious place is by the Firestone tower; LRT station adjacent, you don't necessarily need to dig deep into the soil for an amphitheatre, sunset view of the downtown and mountains would make concerts amazing, and if you could develop acoustics so the sound goes west, then it's 900m of...

That road is in a trench. It takes about 60-70m of horizontal space to provide enough elevation to cross over a road, while still being passable to pedestrians. It's 40m from the building to 6th Ave, so we'd need to trench 6th as well as make the entire public space into a sloped bridge access...

What I noticed in mine was Canadian flags almost entirely just next to store-brand products (which give them higher profits). There were flags next to a box of tea that I'm pretty sure wasn't grown in Canada's vast tea plantations, and that said nothing of provenance more than "produced for...

I haven't updated these in a while; here's the monthly pax numbers versus a pre-covid trend projection including seasonality and linear growth: International has been the big success, with a lot more summer traffic than the prepandemic trend - more even travel year-round; on the other...

First the practical parts - it has to be in an industrial area. A bus barn is a maintenance facility and a fuelling station, meaning inevitably fuel spills and various other chemicals. It also needs roads engineered to handle substantial heavy traffic, and it makes a bad neighbour; who would...

Looked great at sunset yesterday evening.

This is in the Route Ahead report; the downtown bus barns have about 15% of fleet capacity (courtesy cptdb.ca), with 10% of the capacity at Anderson colocated with the LRT barn, 35% of the capacity at Spring Gardens 10 min from downtown at 32nd Ave NE, and 40% of the capacity is the new Stoney...

I did a deep dive on this a while ago in a different thread; the quick answer is a reasonable estimate is that as of 2021 about 7.3% of Calgary's jobs seem directly tied to oil and gas, down from more like 10% 25 years earlier. I've since played around with some updated estimates of excess...