Industrial areas are such low density, it's really hard to service them effectively. A lot of industrial areas are in the ~3000 jobs per sq km range; as a comparison, if you built 1.6 km of cycle facilities connecting Barlow and 52nd St SE, there would be roughly 5000 employees of the buildings...

If he was really concerned about the sewer capacity in his community, you would think he would produce a smaller crock of shit.

I think that ground floor retail that provides street life and neighbourhood amenities would be the best feature of any building. 99% of the time you see a building, you are either viewing it from a distance, in which case the ground floor isn't important, or you are walking past it in which...

That's entirely possible; and it would be even more darkly hilarious for them to put back the concrete bike rider protectors on like August 30 just to send out another crew to remove them on September 4th or whenever.

Went past here yesterday; looks like the concrete blocks keeping cyclists safe are being removed. Here's a pic I took: Shoot. Accidentally pasted from the Calgary Transportation Plan. Wish whoever came up with and approved that was in charge of what happened on city streets; life would be a lot...

Building a drive-through is by definition not improving a streetscape, and it is definitely not a 10% improvement on a main street.

My two cents of anecdata are similar; I know a couple of people who were recruited here for reasonably senior, specialized technical work. One came from the US and was an avid fly fisherman; the other came from eastern Canada and wasn't seriously considering the move, but he stayed a couple days...

If there are people moving for the weather, I don't think that they're moving for 30 minutes of sunshine a day or 20 cm less of snow to shovel a year. I couldn't help notice some cities you didn't mention in terms of weather: I can get moving from the cold places to the not-cold places if you...

Here's one cut of data that might speak to prospects. On a purely mercenary basis, I'd expect cities to have better prospects for growth if they had a more educated workforce (better suited to new jobs), if they attracted more immigrants (the main source of population growth), and if they had...

What's particularly frustrating is that there's an easy fix to the issue of vehicle traffic - ban left turns in the afternoon for a couple of hours at three intersections. The City could also remove about 15 street parking stalls (and one curb bulb-out) and create eastbound left turn lanes at...

What's particularly odd is the continual repetition of the lie that this was always envisioned as temporary. The initial web site made no mention of temporary changes; it didn't say they would be permanent, but neither does the engagement around the construction of the Green Line or the Ring...

I never thought of it either, but it is actually shorter than other likely North American based itineraries: It's much shorter to go across Asia; at least as the crow flies -- I think that the actual airliners may not cross North Korean or Iranian airspace, or go over the active invasion of...

Edmonton Trail is a Primary Transit Network corridor, that is -- according to the plans -- slated to have 10 minute or lower frequency service. At 9th Avenue (the closest point to the station), it's over 500m between Edmonton Trail and Centre St, which is around an 8 minute walk. It doesn't make...

One place of saving money -- both on construction and rolling stock -- is dropping the 9th avenue station. It's always been silly (slow down as many people taking the train from the north to benefit the fewest people possible), but the recent Local Area Plan has made it a complete white...

I use the 3rd ave pathway because I go to places on 3rd Ave. Not sure how riding on the river pathway solves that. Not shopping and dining in Chinatown will be what solves that in the future, I guess. In other news, the permanent cycle track on 12th avenue has been removed between 3rd and 4th...

I know there are a few people on here who are quick to talk about how important a stable regulatory environment is for the energy industry; I'm sure they'll be back from their summer holidays soon. It seems odd to me that there is a bunch of land that is incredibly important for agriculture...

Those are average daily volumes. But it's interesting, I had a look at west downtown access at a bigger scale; here's the 2018 volumes and the change since 2000: Traffic is down a lot on 11th/12th, but it's also down almost everywhere. Percentages can be a little misleading, though; the 7%...

Over the years, the 3 has had service cuts and the 301 has had service increases -- the right thing to do, IMO. When the 301 started, (Sept. 2004) it had 6 buses an hour in the peak, and only 2 an hour in the offpeak. The 3 meanwhile had 10 buses an hour in the peak, and 6 in the offpeak. Today...

If the Green Line existed today at-grade, would we spend billions of dollars to tunnel it to increase car capacity on 12th Avenue leading to a two-lane bridge? Would we spend billions to increase car capacity on the roads it crosses like Macleod, which have had declining traffic volumes for...

I stand by my statement; the possible explanations for choosing the option that costs a hundred times more and gives worse results are not very flattering. The strongest arguments are "trains are cool", which I'd be pretty fine with if an 8 year old were planning a transportation system, and...