Bring on Tower 2!

https://www.rentfaster.ca/ab/edmonton/rentals/apartment/1-bedroom/downtown/pet-friendly/566414 Fear not everybody, it's not $2k for a one bedroom here, they just updated it to $1500.

Rumour has it Ceci might resign, Calgary-Buffalo is probably the safest seat in Calgary and would probably work better than Lethbridge-West for Nenshi.

Honestly not as surprised tbh. It'll probably continue to grow at a decent pace over the next year or two. It's becoming a much nicer and comfortable journey than dealing with the 66 St traffic during rush hour, from my experiences. It doesn't help that it also opened on November too lol...

Ooof seems like we're not the only ones facing cost overruns

I'm sure it's a large chunk of it is playoff season, but downtown's reputation and vibe is much different this year. Really does feel like a turnaround growth year. I'm finally not getting weird looks from friends when I tell them I actually like going downtown lol

As someone who takes it now on a pretty regular basis, it's much better than 2021-2022. I'm seeing more Transit Peace Officers and more anti-loitering enforcement in some stations. It helps that ridership for all lines seems to be getting busier and busier every month.

That's also a thought I had tbh. There's probably much more residential development compared to industrial in recent years shifting the proportion. However tax base wise, the whole point of lower density suburbia is that it could be subsidized by commercial/industrial property taxes. If that's...

Yeah instead of tower clusters, what we might get along the Valley Line are more midrise/high density corridors. I personally would love to see more mixed use ground retail along the line because you can actually see it. We still might get Vancouver level TOD's in Millwoods, Bonnie Doon and...

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/council-pushes-to-boost-city-of-edmonton-s-lagging-industrial-tax-base-1.7240556 A bit of an oof but what hell happened in 2007-2008? Is that just the effects of the oil boom?

This is from Janz’s Twitter but it’s incredible seeing the numbers for some of the larger apartment infills.

Probably as a springboard for future Metro line expansion. Blatchford Gate being built could have also been a provision for federal and provincial funding, similar to the Capital Line extension. (which makes sense considering the Feds/Provincials contributed almost $250 million to this compared...

Yeah I can confirm that as someone who's in a suburb beyond the Henday for the time being. The road sizes are much larger than they should for residential neighbourhoods, and they're extremely car dependent. They are denser than the bungalow era, and probably contribute to bus routes being...

I’m fine with limiting sprawl at the cost of increased housing affordability. We’ve got enough leeway with ZBR that infill development isn’t a complete painful experience like it is in the GTA when they implemented the Greenbelt and prices shot up. First wanting to make Blatchford allow SFH...

MAKE IT MAKE SENSE lmao Yeah, the trend of increased LRT ridership is set in stone. Honestly, I’m fine with that sort of omission. If these articles (even if they’re playing around with some facts) about LRT ridership approaching pre-pandemic levels make more people comfortable taking the...

https://globalnews.ca/news/10564914/edmonton-lrt-ridership-pre-pandemic-levels/ What is almost though? Please the forum readers yearn for numbers lol

Yeah, one or two more potential conversions would be cool and a win, but hearing 5 from that news clip caught me off guard.

Jesus this all sounds confusing as hell. From Open Data, we've essentially breached pre-pandemic ridership, and I'm guessing that's the metric we use with this news release. The Council Report should be accurate but it isn't a consistent metric that's been updated and was a one-off. APTA is...

It was mentioned at the end of the news clip, with literally no details besides that.

Five possible conversions by the end of the year? Did I hear that right?