Depends on stage configuration, but there's no reason Saddledome can't seat ~18500 + 1600 floor seats for a concert. Promoters usually just choose not to (and these days a show that might want to simply ain't coming here). 8k standing is a huge stretch (especially for a concert), and you'd...

New Indian Village and Enmax park, a new bridge over the Elbow and new Ops building (closer to 20 years now) and some significant operational/storage changes (which you probably meant with 'back of house') Also the whole park flooded 13 years ago (that was 13 years ago?!?!?!?) - they slapped...

Grandstand + standing room has barely any more (if any) capacity than Saddledome (3/4) + floor seating. Saddledome in the round probably has slightly more. Saddledome has more premium seats and suites; Grandstand has some excellent premium venues, but they are tailored to rodeo and evening...

If we had a magic crystal ball we could have bit the bullet and dug up 8 Ave from ~2020-2024 and it would have aligned nicely with peak WFH years. But I imagine relocating utilities away from 8th is much easier said than done considering 7th isn't really an option and a lot of the time there...

On a 50-100 year timeline we could definitely use more giant plots, especially adjacent to transit lines. This one would be pretty close to West Village, but I'm not sure what other big plots we'll have in the second half of this century? Bottom line for me is that there is a pretty big...

Trade offs with each option. I would think a full optimized single line at surface could perform about the same as a busy interlined subway (especially if you factor the time spent on stairs/escalators). But a single line underground could fly, and you'd have no extra system resiliency issues...

How many cities are building their 'first' subway tunnel? Could it be that most cities are just having to go under other subways? I've never had the impression that 8 Ave subway will be particularly deep. But darwink's photo raises a thought for my idea - you could do a shallow trenched station...

I think it would be awfully hard to construct it without significantly impacting existing service. I've always thought there could be a hybrid solution: - UG stations at Olympic Plaza and 2nd St SW - Come to grade between 5th and 6th St Sw - Surface station between 6th and 7th St SW ** (some...

If both blue/red were buried and interlined then we wouldn't want to add green to the mix. It would theoretically open 7th open for a surface running green line, but I doubt that would be any more popular in this alternate reality. A buried line almost certainly would have meant fewer DT...

Ya it's not a great location for high inventory turnover...I think they have access to an underground loading dock off 2nd St, but I'd imagine it's older freight elevator(s) that would have to run 24/7 with handjacks. Nevermind the logistics of customers with full/bulky carts. It is weird and a...

I would extend the 6 or 22 to run down Westhills Way to Tsuu Tina Parkway instead of doing the little seed bump laden loop around the Westhills theatres. Or maybe the 13 which does similar. A tiny little bonus is that you could have a stop serving the City's Sarcee Depot; Google Maps...

You guys missed the best part - the jankiness is mirrored on the north side of the street so there's like 5 meters where curb to curb is a smidge less than 15m wide. There's even more weirdness on the west end of the block: This house is now gone and so are the parking signs (but not the...

This is where my mind went, too. But I think we really should make perfect the enemy of good/better here - it's really important and they'll be reluctant to tear it up again. The scope of the 4th/5th is so limited to the west end that I'd hope it ties into Bowforth Park project...but we should...

The other option would be to put it about 400m further south, near the pedestrian overpass and existing stop for the 20. Ped crossing is currently okay, but could definitely be better, Right now I think MY runs about 1900 meters (1600 meters as the crow flies) from MRU stop to Marda Loop...

UD is on more of an island, flanked by institutions and hostile barrier roads so it doesn't integrate as well with surrounding neighbourhoods. Which isn't necessarily a big problem, just makes it skew more urban and less family. WD has plenty of integration challenges, too - OBCR and 85th are...