Queenstown NZ embarking on a couple of transit cable cars: https://www.odt.co.nz/regions/queenstown/world-class-suppliers-picked-queenstown-cable-car Also the Paris cable car is very successful so far: https://liftblog.com/

Valley Line West will run west down 104th from 107 St. I'm not sure how long they actually had that in mind though - maybe it's similar to Calgary and Centre St where the idea of a tram never seemed to occur to them until it did?

Airport-DT rail (CADE) should continue beyond grand central station and run elevated down this exact stretch. I don't know that it would improve the vibe at all, but it would at least take away one vehicle lane...

This is a really good point - I was thinking more about how unusual 104th was and how Calgary doesn't really have an equivalent unless you go way out to the burbs (85 St SW is the closest comp I can think of), but it's also true that Edmonton generally avoided our freeways turning into one way...

Yup, it's just that the size of the areas are flipped; Strathcona+U of A are closer in scope to Beltline+Stampede. U of A adds to the youth+vibrancy, but Whyte+109th=17th+14 St SW, but we also have 10/11/12 Aves, 11 St SW, 1 St SW, and even a bit more south into Mission. If anything Oliver is...

26 Ave is another; they had an info session a couple months ago where I suspect they showed details, but they haven't made it onto the main page: https://www.calgary.ca/planning/transportation/26-ave-sw-improvements.html I think the east side of Crowchild is fine, but I'm not sure if the west...

As darwink says there is very little reason for CPKC to even consider it. If the carrot is fully twinned tracks to Banff and up Nose Creek then I'm sure they take the meeting, but they could just hold out for those benefits without giving up anything so substantial. Even twinning Nose Creek...

It was pretty funny last week when everyone suddenly invoked the 2004 McKnight issue as a totally obvious thing that should have had feedermain resiliency at the top of the priority list for the last 15 years...yet I hadn't heard it mentioned a single time since the first break in June 2024. We...

I looked at a basic topo map and mapped it with mapmyrun to compare elevations (that's gotta be pretty similar to what professional cartographers use, right?). The 25km run from Balzac to the edge of Big Hill Spring canyon is 0.7% grade. Dropping down to the creek is about 5% so you'd have to...

This is a totally fantastical thought experiment, but imagine if many decades ago the city+province bought CP out of their track from the Elbow River to Cochrane. Which probably means building about 35kms of new heavy rail tracks from Balzac to Big Hill Springs and down to Cochrane, increasing...

I'd go elevated over 9 Ave instead of the heavy tracks. But I don't see how you're getting from DT up to the airport or out to the west without working closely with CP for mutual benefit. I think creating a one seat ride from Banff to the Airport/Edmonton creates more challenges than its worth...

Presuming CADE and HSR would have/share their own track does make the Vic Park location for GCS make more sense, but it should be on the north side of the CP tracks. Having it on the south side means they need to cross the CP tracks heading east before 12 St SE.

The city owns the parkade to the west, and presumably there wasn't sufficient demand to fill all 6 levels of parking, hence High Park. Not sure where the ramps are within the parkade, but I'd think the platforms could probably extend into it if necessary

Don't reserves help ensure a high credit rating so the city can borrow at good rates and more easily manage cash flow? And also gives the city the ability to self-insure on big ticket items (which may or may not make sense and is a whole other topic)

And there were two full terms between then and when Nenshi took over where you'd expect the main work should happen to assess and bolster system resiliency