Congratulations, you've completely missed the mark! The point is that these names are not merely "honorary historical buildings or museums" - they have transcended the namesake that has since gone the way of the dodo and become a reference point for a given geographic area. People will say...

Why would you assume that? If you're familiar with Rogers Place, Coliseum is a totally different name. Say Edmonton had called the Expo Centre or some other events venue Coliseum instead of it being the previous NHL arena and yet a tourist made the same mistake? Should there only be one...

Of all the things to do, I think renaming Coliseum is a low priority. And, personally, I think it's a cool name that rolls of the tongue nicely with aspirational evocations while paying homage to the history of the area (even if there won't be other remnants). Northlands is much more generic...

They didn't. And it worked for the most part as most places didn't outgrow the grid numbers. And then you get Edmonton, which did run out of numbers, and now we have this weird not-a-quadrant system. This style of numbering is also not common in Southern Alberta. Didsbury is about as south...

There are definitely ways of going around it. The route I created I believe does not follow the same location of the burial site, which is east of the Walterdale. I chose the west side of the bridge for this reason.

And even into Beaver Hills House Park honestly.

No problem! For my hypothetical, I didn't have one specific vision for it, but there's probably a combination of above and below ground. Where it splits off on 105 St & 105 Ave, it would probably descend into an underground tube from 104 Ave until 98 or 99 Ave, after which point it would...

And even for an indoor market, the Old Strathcona is likewise in a beautiful setting, in proximity to Whyte Ave and all its offerings. the A&N 97 Street building was, like you say, not in such attractive environs.

I never said that a gondola as a type of transportation is inherently a tourist trap. I know how it works in Medellin. I merely stated that the way it was to be set up, as something independent of the local public transportation system, would likely skew it in that direction (although...

Again, nobody is saying tourism should be an afterthought. But a tourist gondola vs ETS-integrated rapid transit that would benefit both locals and visitors alike? Yeah, I'm gonna go with the latter, especially since tourism-oriented alternatives already exist.

Who is saying tourism has to be an afterthought? That being said, I would be leery of making Edmonton too attractive to tourists. We are far from there right now but tourism turns into overtourism and whatever economic benefits may be derived are canceled out by all of the congestion...

It also helps that Edmonton is one of the most logically laid out cities in North America. Aside from having to weave around the river valley for crossings, everything is very straight forward. The arterials are mostly a grid, the numbering system takes very little effort to understand and...

Have you considered the fact that we already build things for tourists, such as the Heritage Streetcar and 100 St Funicular? Just wondering. Not to mention tourists and locals alike would benefit from a direct Strathcona-DT connection that is integrated with ETS. It doesn't have to be an...

The main problem with the gondola, aside from building over a sacred burial site, is that it was designed as a private transit system, separate from ETS. This would all but guarantee it as a tourist service. If you and your destination aren't within walking distance of a gondola station, then...

Yep. The Fox Drive bus lane does help a lot but at some point you need something that completely bypasses the roads.

87 Ave-Whyte Ave Crosstown should be a bigger priority IMO. I hope that is prioritized over expansions further into suburbia after the current plans are complete. Getting LRT to all corners is good, but we do need to also build up connectivity to nodes other than downtown and make rapid...

You're right - I think I misread.

As opposed to the Broadway line in Vancouver, the airport connection in Montreal, and getting a bunch of inner Toronto areas finally hooked up to rail transit? Like, VLW is very important don't get me wrong, but to say it's more important than other projects going on across Canada is a bit much...

The Capital Line goes till 1:45am. Hopefully in time the Valley Line can go up from 1am to 2am. At the very least, there should be a replacement bus between 1am and 5:30am, like Toronto does.