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The only place the Green Line is south of the tracks and above ground is indeed within 1 km from the existing LRT, but that LRT is the Blue Line and there's half of Memorial Drive, the Bow River, and Fort Calgary between the two. You keep talking like this is easy, but show me on the map where...

Big update on this at committee yesterday; here's the PDF or a link to CBC coverage. Basically, the report details the 'baseline amenity mix', ie the facilities that should be included. There are three basic components: Track and Field- 10.5k sq m; $8M low end economic benefit A 200m running...

Four actually; based on the backs of players drafted before this period -- all 11 hall of famers on those teams were drafted before 1993. Of those, Larry Murphy was a 2nd, Chelios and Yzerman were 4th rounders. And that was a very different era; I don't think the Flames should plan to draft a...

Source: instagram I've had one incredibly close call with a wildly intoxicated scooter user who nearly plowed into my wife and I (while we were standing on the sidewalk) before almost running into 9th ave traffic. I've seen a lot of jackass scooter users who haven't come all that close, but at...

Here's how many top 5 picks each team has had in the past 30 drafts: Sam Bennett is that #4 pick for Calgary, by the way. The Red Wings got a #3 pick in 1990 (Primeau). The Calgary Flames have never drafted in the top 3; (the Atlanta Flames had #2 picks in 72 and 73). The only team to go...

Every AMA office in the city is within 1 km of an LRT station: Crowfoot - 900m Shawnessy - 600m from one, 700m from another Sunridge - 350m Willow Park - 300m Main (45th St SW) - 50m I think this is more a condemnation of our TOD policies than anything the AMA is doing wrong.

I'm all aboard for downtown revitalization, but I'm not 100% sure about this. U of C and Mount Royal have both had programs downtown, but those have tended to retreat back to campus. A university campus is a thing for a reason from a research perspective - you want your business researchers...

The Flames are actually potentially in a really clear position as far as this goes; here are the non-depth players: Free agent after next season: Backlund Lindholm Toffoli Dubé (RFA) Hanifin Tanev Zadorov Kylington (on the off chance he returns from Sweden) And then Mangiapane has two seasons...

A big gym sounds good to me; I don't know the market at all. But: are they even trying to lease the retail space? The last time I remembered to look as I passed by, they had a big wrap sign advertising for residential rental tenants, but I didn't see any signage at all for commercial leasing...

This is a great article, lots of interesting tidbits. One thing that really caught my eye was this figure: The 'other' and 'don't know' voters can be a number of things, and they can change the election in unpredictable ways. I think of the 2015 federal election when there were a lot of...

Looking at that quadrant-by-quadrant poll again, here's how the poll differs from the 2019 election* (ignoring the 'orphans'): The NDP are up 12% in the NE, 14% in the SE, and 17% in both the NW and SW. Which is interesting and perhaps encouraging from their point of view. Here's the Calgary...

What about if someone elects a government that promises to cut public sector employment, or who cuts public sector wages, or who hijacks public sector worker pension funds so that they can redirect investments to suit their cronies? No certainty there. Look, it's okay to be honest and say you...

That's such a weird article. The poll is fine I'm sure -- Janet Brown is as good a pollster as any -- but the "could still lose the election" framing is weird. The article says: which seems to completely ignore that the NDP won two seats outside Calgary and Edmonton in the last election when...

If you're running the same trains on the red, blue and green lines to save money by sharing garages, then you need some way that trains can drive between the lines to get to the garages. That's the connection that is required. It doesn't matter how much land CT does or doesn't have next to Metis...

This is awesome. It's unfortunate it's taken a couple of rounds of redesign before they figured out that an out-of-the-way spot like High Park needed something that actually drew people and gave them a reason to go out of their way, to spend time, and to return. (Other options: Dog park...

The other thing I should mention is that these lanes (and similar ones on 17th, and I bet others on other high streets) should just be converted to full-time parking. Right now, they are signed for no-stopping during rush hour (the left photo above is southbound, so it's no stopping from 3:30 to...

Good to hear, I assume they're expanding safe injection sites, funding more housing and working on treating the addiction crisis. A little more enforcement is okay, but it won't solve the problem, just push it around. Heard an interesting interview on a podcast somewhere that one key reason you...

There's somewhere between 1000 and 1400 people who live closer to this site than any other retail - and not counting anyone on the other side of Crowchild, which I think is a mentally impassable barrier. And it's a reasonably well-off area. I suspect a well curated coffee shop or diner type...