Quarterly Population estimates are out, first year in history of Canada that the population declined. Stats Can article and data here - https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/daily-quotidien/260318/dq260318b-eng.htm?HPA=1&indid=4098-1&indgeo=0 Alberta was the only province to see population growth at...

Cautiously optimistic - I am actually kind of shocked they convinced the Stampede to get rid of so much asphalt. It does seem they really want to catch the Stampede up to other big cities with proper, high quality entertainment and exhibition district rather than a collection of random event...

I think they made the right choice to keep at-grade and the ridership speaks for itself - the system is immensely popular. Comparing the LRT to the feedermain break does have some similarities though, at least superficially. I don't have any insider knowledge, this is just the vibes I get from...

That little access road was a product of the West LRT project, and doesn't need to exist anymore. There's one driveway to the remaining house that's supported by this, we could have just given that property a driveway to connect to the street to the east. It's too bad the developer and the city...

Not sure what's the idea inspiring what's going on here from a design perspective, but glad everyone seems to have figured out that Shaganappi Point Station is a brilliant place for apartment buildings. As the random rectangle critique is well covered, my critique goes to the site plan. I think...

Great insights, thanks for sharing @MichaelS. This "official plan" reference is what struct me - where is this written down anywhere in a Council approved plan that actually says what the setbacks are to be used for in downtown, and the objective is to have a certain number of travel lanes...

This is kind of an obvious statement but it's wild when you really think just how much more stuff, people, places etc. can be fit in location that was a forgettable dusty parking lot for decades prior. It'll always be weird to me that we can have a $2B 70+ storey luxury hotel proposal on a...

I love how there's no reason - even a bad reason - for doing this randomly wide lane. That randomly-determined, randomly-applied, and ambiguously-interpreted setback table strikes again. The drawback is so obvious with a reduced sidewalk and planting area. The benefit is.....? I am...

Great example - it goes all the way to Council, has a bunch of concepts and things figured out about it, gets approved, and then..... nothing. You'd think there'd be a feedback loop somehow a few years later that says "hey look, we aren't going to do this anymore because of X, Y or Z reasons"...

I maybe am mis-remembering, but wasn't there a relatively recent functional study as part of Green Line / Max Green that sketched out a plan on how bus circulations are supposed to work downtown with dedicated bus lanes? Perhaps that can be dusted off for some of these major avenues? I always...

Totally - if Currie is as big of destination as it was originally proposed, maybe the current setup is worth it despite being inefficient to improve Currie access. Also, it's not ideal to have a transit stop next to a freeway... but that can be mitigated with a higher-quality stop like other MAX...

Would have been great to know that before they build the Marda Loop Station on the on-ramp. The Max Yellow is a pretty solid route with a couple of pain points - downtown's brutal lack of bus priority and this Marda Loop station location. The problem is they put the existing station on the NB...

A very boring building but built in one of the most obvious locations for this kind of building in the city. 20m from a LRT platform and on a quiet street is a great spot. Banff Trail being the last onon-freeway median LRT stations in the NW so it's both a surprisingly quiet and surprisingly...

That setback table in the land use bylaw used on 17th Avenue and other places in the bylaw is pretty wild artifact in that it's just there by itself . As you said, these setbacks were for road widening originally but that's not really a thing that seems to be captured anywhere in official...

I am existing that target demographic now but I'd imagine if I lived physically above a grocery store it would probably capture 90% of my grocery spending, regardless of the price. The convenience of a full service grocery with lots of good ready-made options instantly accessible would be such...