Essentially that the LRT would be following the existing CN ROW for much of the extension's length, which would make it more practical to construct than veering off earlier. They also said that there was a future vision for the Gorman area (a TOD which makes as little sense to me now as it did...

TOD has never worked in Edmonton. Century Park never lived up to expectations: progress has been laughably slow and the site, which was supposed to include tall towers, is instead a cluster of relatively low-rise buildings. The redevelopment of the east side of Fort Road south of 129 Avenue was...

The Gorman extension was originally planned to have been built by now. But the city decided (correctly, I think) that the Metro Line to bring NAIT and Royal Alex onto the system was a higher priority, so the funding was redirected there. Castle Downs has been wanting and needing LRT service...

Where's the savings? If the city builds the Blatchford Gate station now and then doesn't open it for several years, taxpayers will still be on the hook for years of maintenance, upkeep and security costs. All for a station that wouldn't be used by a single paying passenger. It's like buying a...

You've gotta love City Council and the Department of Transportation. They won't spend the money to elevate stations where it would be really useful, like Bonnie Doon and Heritage Valley, but they'll pay to build a station years before it's needed and consider keeping it closed--all the while...

Get used to it. This kind of disruption and delay is what the city assented to when it opted for the "el cheapo" at-grade alternative to a flyover at 82 Avenue and an elevated station at Bonnie Doon.

The Postmedia papers cover plenty of major car accidents--they aren't going to report on every fender-bender. The reason that the Valley Line is under such scrutiny is because it is an expensive project that the public was repeatedly told is "superior" to existing forms of transportation on its...

Critics have pointed out that the Bonnie Doon section is a mess--the line not only crosses a busy avenue at-grade but does so while simultaneously moving from the centre of the road to the west side. This is just asking for trouble. The hilariously sad thing was that elected officials in 2017...

Those who grew up in Edmonton may remember the Sahara club on the northwest corner of 114 Avenue and Groat Road (where the gas station and convenience store are now). My parents actually held their wedding reception there. There was a twin cinema (Famous Players) attached. When Westmount Centre...

The only ones I recall were the Lego shows that used to come (annually, I think) to the fifth floor of Woodward's at Edmonton Centre when I was a child.

https://retail-insider.com/retail-insider/2023/08/hudsons-bay-launches-outlet-store-concept/ The other one at this time is at Eglinton Square in Toronto, though I wouldn't be surprised to see them eventually convert the HBC store at Sunridge Mall in Calgary.

Just what would you have outlying neighbourhoods do? Residents of those areas would argue that they already pay exorbitant municipal taxes, a chunk of which goes to fund community services and policing which as you point out are more heavily needed in the city core. Residents throughout the city...

Not as far as I know. Even if there were, there are a pile of other projects ahead of such a proposal in the competition for scarce dollars: Metro Line from Blatchford Gate to Castle Downs Metro Line from Castle Downs to NW City Limits Capital Line South Phase 2 Capital Line NE to Gorman I...

I would be happy with at least one early-morning non-stop to AA's hub at Dallas-Fort Worth, although the real prize would be service to Chicago which United seems to have no interest in restoring. AA also has a hub there.

WestJet's home base is Calgary, so that airline is always going to try to funnel you through their hub at YYC. (I still think the Alberta government deal that resulted in WestJet basing all its transatlantic and transpacific flights in Calgary, while doing zilch for Edmonton, was a complete...

Given the public cynicism and the near-zero level of credibility of both the Valley Line SE and TransEd, the trains will have to be a free fare zone for a lot longer than that. Ottawa's Confederation Line was rushed into service and has suffered multiple lengthy shutdowns of the system. After...

Then how do you travel to Europe or the Far East? By boat?

Although it would be easy to indulge in schadenfreude, this is bad news for Calgary and Western Canada. Any reduction in connectivity from a Western Canadian city, whether Vancouver, Edmonton or even Calgary, is always negative for consumers and for the regional and provincial economies. The...

A key difference is that Calgary made the decision to stay on the surface through downtown (Red and Blue Lines) while Edmonton tunneled and built five underground stations in its city centre. This meant that Calgary (whose first line opened three years after Edmonton's, though initially using...

The problem is that this vision was pretty much killed by crime, homelessness and the decline of retail. Many folks stay away from downtown because of the safety issue (or the perception of it), particularly women. Even those of us who aren't as concerned from a personal safety perspective are...