Unbelievable

City of Edmonton council is resistant. You're right, I think ETS should be integrated but that's not happening yet. Which means you have EMTSC planning to deploy rapid routes in just a few months in the city and the city funding studies to create nearly identical rapid routes. I suppose if...

It's almost the Wardair approach to flying - back in the day, Wardair advertised their economy was as good as the other guy's business class. Porter isn't quite there, but their service is certainly not bargain-basement.

Porter is competing at the premium end of the market - almost exactly the opposite of Flair

I'm definitely no expert but it seems to me it would just be good business to make sure in a project like this, your building comes out fully accessible.

Councillors' motions during a regular term are for administration to develop an unfunded plan to do X, Y, or Z. That way they can get a look at the costs and what a plan would take in terms of time etc without committing the money as of the initial motion. Then they decide the money. This is...

Montreal has done a lot of work on their bike network, and one aspect I really like is that their primary network is treated as a form of urban cycling highway - designed to get people around quickly to places they want to go. If I had one criticism of Edmonton's bike plan (which I generally...

I'd forgotten about that stone building on the right which was a dry cleaners when I used to go by there every day as a kid

Edmonton is debating a potential 3.9% tax increase (if I understood it right). Calgary passed a 4.4% increase Vancouver is debating a 5% increase

The problem is, the shortest route takes you right over Russia: https://www.greatcirclemap.com/?routes=%20BOM-YEG - it'll be a while before that's an option again

It'll be interesting to see how that route does. I lived in Quebec City for years, and it was hard to get there from Edmonton (for a domestic route) -- and yet, the city has never really had good air service for the size of the place.

The city, to its credit, has created an excellent site that explains the changes in easy-to-read language and where you can leave questions and comments.

Smith could do a cheap win by funding all of Edmonton's bike plans for what she wants to spend on the Deerfoot

The budget is out for the EMTSC as part of their next meeting package. It shows a few interesting things: Opening day will be April 30, 2023 regional routes as presented earlier on this thread That includes a YEG express service to downtown and a peak hour route from YEG to Millwoods via...

Did anyone keep the façade the way the Alberta Hotel was kept?

A friend who covers sports in Toronto says Jack Campbell is one of the hardest people on himself after a loss and the first to credit everyone else after a win. This has a plus and a minus: The minus is he probably can't shake off a bad outing as easily as other goalies On the plus side his...

^^ I also like the pedestrian-scale signage - I'm being a bit thick - is there a door at the corner (behind the hoarding)?

I agree. There were maybe two shifts where I thought he did some good, but that's too few for a player of his size and supposed calibre.

The report says it is a record.

Still miss those great Motoraunt burgers and fries