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    Alberta Politics

    Again, as I said, if you think Danielle and her party are that bad, you had a chance to stop them in May. If all you're going to do is criticize her after the election is over, what's the point?
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    Alberta Politics

    Are we really obsessing about a T-shirt? You're trying to tell me that's the most serious issue facing our province right now? Not the fact that crime and homelessness are plaguing even small communities, that wait times for medical treatment are out of control, that access to affordable housing...
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    EllisDon to Lead Prairie Link High-Speed Rail Partners - Edm-RD-Cal

    If it's going to be done, it needs to be done as an extension to the Capital Line. Using the CP rail line is a no-go. The last thing we need is having the crossing gates down on the CP rail line even more often.
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    EllisDon to Lead Prairie Link High-Speed Rail Partners - Edm-RD-Cal

    I'm also wondering how much this is going to cost the airport authority. Generally airports have to pay a big chunk of the costs--the Vancouver Airport Authority paid $300 million for its share of the Canada Line. (In return, it got a travel time guarantee--26 minutes from YVR-Airport to...
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    EllisDon to Lead Prairie Link High-Speed Rail Partners - Edm-RD-Cal

    I fear false hopes are being raised. The most feasible way to get rail transit between the Edmonton airport and the city core is by expanding LRT. Constructing an entirely new rail line and musing about new entry points into downtown will be massively more expensive and intrusive than simply...
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    Edmonton | Valley Line LRT/ Valley Line West | ?m | ?s | City of Edmonton

    That's setting an extremely low bar. In addition, some of the most serious issues that have plagued this line--like the deficiencies in the columns--have absolutely nothing to do with COVID. You could also say that when compared with a major infrastructure disaster like Berlin's Flughafen...
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    Miscellaneous

    This would be the former 7-Eleven which briefly became an AM/PM. Good to see SOMETHING happening on that site.
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    Miscellaneous

    The former Times Square adult shoppe.
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    Alberta Politics

    Correct. 2015 was even more unusual in that we saw another Canadian first: the child of a former prime minister becoming prime minister himself. While the Americans had already had the Adamses and the Bushes (father and son presidents), this was a new development in Canada. We also saw the NDP...
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    Alberta Politics

    Rachel's official title is Leader of His Majesty's Loyal Opposition. The assumption that that His Majesty's Loyal Opposition is the "government-in-waiting" is the result of the fact that when government changes hands it is almost always the second-largest party in the House or legislature that...
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    Edmonton | Valley Line LRT/ Valley Line West | ?m | ?s | City of Edmonton

    I am so sick of listening to apologists for local councils blame the long-gone Stephen Harper for the fact that projects like the Valley Line have gone off the rails. Where's the accountability at the local level? Harper has been out of office for almost eight years and yet people are still...
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    Edmonton International Airport (EIA/YEG)

    I wasn't talking distance, I was talking convenient arrival times in London.
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    Edmonton | Valley Line LRT/ Valley Line West | ?m | ?s | City of Edmonton

    It's amusing to note that it was FIVE years ago this month that the city received its first LRV from Bombardier, and still not a single revenue passenger has been carried. Even more hilariously, worries were expressed at the time that production delays at Bombardier (which had affected multiple...
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    Miscellaneous

    I remember when this was a Texaco station. Imperial would have inherited the site when it bought Texaco Canada in 1989.
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    Edmonton | Valley Line LRT/ Valley Line West | ?m | ?s | City of Edmonton

    Are we sure it's actually going to be ready to handle revenue traffic? Or is it going to be like Ottawa and open to great fanfare, only to shut down regularly and for lengthy periods for emergency repairs to fix various deficiencies that abruptly rear their heads?
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    Edmonton | Valley Line LRT/ Valley Line West | ?m | ?s | City of Edmonton

    What the North Shore really needs is the Purple Line. This would head east from Park Royal through North Van, cross to the South Shore, then link up with the Millennium Line at Brentwood Town Centre, then at a later stage head south to serve BCIT and link up with the Expo line at Metrotown. This...
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    Edmonton International Airport (EIA/YEG)

    If I'm heading to London and HAVE to connect in a Canadian city (a non-stop would still be better) I like the Toronto options. AC 850 from Calgary doesn't get into Heathrow until 11:50 a.m. If there are delays, particularly with baggage claim, you're likely not on the train into the city centre...
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    Edmonton | Valley Line LRT/ Valley Line West | ?m | ?s | City of Edmonton

    I wouldn't argue that TransLink is doing overly well. They simply look good because there are so many other major transit projects across the country that are completely off the rails. Ottawa's LRT is a tire fire, Eglinton Line 5 may never open, and the Valley Line Southeast has been a disaster...
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    Miscellaneous

    Does anyone know what's going into the old Red Robin building at the corner of 100 Avenue and 170 Street?
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    Anthony Henday Drive

    Can we fix the mess at AHD and 100 Avenue? There are way too many drivers coming off AHD northbound onto eastbound 100 Avenue, then attempting to cut across all the lanes of eastbound traffic in order to careen into the Walmart parking lot or to get into the left lane in order to turn left at...

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