I took these pictures a few weeks ago, but didn't get around to cleaning them up until today. These are from March 19th, in Mission. It's the cousin of the well-established sneckdown, a main street snarrowing: All that stored snow in the curb lane reduced the width of 4th St -- and many...

Sure, they promise this now in the DP, but I guarantee once built it'll never look as half good as that rendering.

Looking at those ThinkHQ poll numbers, and assuming the same number of voters as last time, and using ridings to break out the CMAs gives me a 49%/43% NDP lead in the 7 Edmonton region ridings I mentioned above, which is 1% higher than the margin in the city of Calgary. Suggests that those two...

The NDP need to pick up 20 seats total. Edmonton: 1 riding available; should win (it was a narrow UCP win last time, Kaycee Madu has not covered himself in glory as a cabinet minister). Edmonton region: There are seven seats here, and what's fascinating is that the vote shares in 2019 look...

I also had that same first experience of Shake Shack and it is good, but In-N-Out would be my pick more days than not. It's sort of hard to compare; if the random website I found is to be believed, a single SmokeShack burger is more expensive by itself than a Double-Double animal style with...

There's currently 13 units in the existing tower listed for sale; half of the listings are over a year old (most of those are over two years old), and the newer listings look never-occupied and staged. I wouldn't be surprised if there are more that are just not listed on MLS right now. That's...

There needs to be a new bylaw that any bank located in a BRZ can only occupy a maximum of say 20 feet of street frontage; enough for an ABM area and elevator/stairs to the upper level offices (or a passage to the offices located behind the street fronting retail next door).

Furthermore, the lines don't connect, and the only place they pass they are at different elevations and in the middle of the downtown. Not great value to spend a billion dollars on a line connection to... not actually save any money on a rail yard, since you need to expand the existing...

📉😢 We're now behind the Predators (27%), a team that is blowing themselves up. I think the season is over; if I were in charge, the top three things I'd do (in no particular order): Tell Markstrom that he's still the #1 goalie and he will be next season, but he needs to rest up; he can pick...

You're not wrong that there's benefit to broadly central locations for things like road gravel storage and city vehicle lots, but there's also costs. My reference point for recreational amenities is Queen's Park cemetery in the NW, which has a really helpful bike path connection from the north...

The cemeteries could be improved so they have better recreational amenity (and bike connectivity) asides from their memorial use, but they are a large, grassed permeable area, which do have some natural benefits. Remind me again which is a waste of inner city land? I suppose we have to keep...

It is, although I wonder why all of the bloody lights are on, since it's not finished and they sure aren't making work-around-the-clock progress on it.

Stampede proper attendance is over a million, (plus six figures for the parade, and lots of people for other events) and someone who takes the train to the grounds is counted twice; once on the way there and once on the way home. In a way, I'm surprised the Stampede bump is only a million. I...

Let's walk down the potential benefits for an international sporting event: 1. Exposure -- Commonwealth games are pretty third tier for this; can you tell me without looking who the last few hosts or the next host are? Maybe they're more of a thing in Australia (love their sports!) and the UK...

Obviously government action could help revitalize downtown; there's a ton of public physical infrastructure, like sidewalks and roads that are both technically out of date and physically decaying. The private sector is never going to fix those. Retail and public-facing companies can easily get...

A soccer league failing here won't make MLS more likely to put teams in the markets that couldn't sustain the much cheaper CPL. (And Cavalry attendance is exactly middle of the 7 CPL teams, despite being in one of the bigger markets.) MLS is already at 29 teams, with multiple viable expansion...

From Dom At The Athletic: Not looking good. At least we just traded away that underproducing Ritchie; not sure what kind of a forward we got back, but whoever it is, they've got to have a better pedigree.

Fancy transit to the airport is one of those things that is popular, but not all that useful. Everybody thinks it's a good idea, but the actual market when push comes to shove is small: Travelling here for business? Your time is too valuable to figure out niche transit services, just spend the...

McKendrick was the main guy trying to run the Green Line in the empty land along the Deerfoot at the cost of halving the Blue Line frequency; it was only once he finally aged out that the north central alignment was designed to go somewhere, anywhere near where people live and work, and from his...

Ah yes, downtown Vancouver, a housing market where everybody is famously thrilled with the amount of housing they are getting and where nobody feels like they are making compromises. 🤣🙃🦘🥂 Studios are a very different context -- and a very good one for "shared light" -- since there's nobody else...