Thanks! I use Paint.NET, it's probably not the best tool for the job but I'm comfortable with it.

Here's what I would do to mitigate costs downtown. Guessing it's too late to go this route? But if y'all think there's any chance otherwise I would happily send this to every city councillor.

1. I've heard the 4 St SE station is now at surface level. Anyone know where the tunnel will begin, then? 2. Is there literally any chance that the scope could be changed further? Because the price-tag for so little actual line is eye-watering. We should be reducing the tunnel length to skip...

Overpasses are terrible stations because often it's 400m or more just to cross from one side to the other. And then once you cross, you're still far away from everything as typically they are surrounded by berms and low density residential. That said, I still think there are some places where...

gorgeous view. Miss living in Sunnyside!

@whatchyyc and I made a video about fixing bus transit in Calgary, centering on the bus network redesign I made a while ago:

I'm very happy with that return. Brzustewicz has big upside and we desparately needed better D prospects, while the first brings it in line with rumored returns from other teams. Adding Kuzmenko is great - I think he'll do better in Calgary with more opportunity, and if he recaptures his scoring...

Why force outer communities to be car dependent? There are still places like Bowness where more growth makes sense, and I'm sure there's many more neighborhoods and areas that also make sense that no one will be able to list off the top of their head. Why not just legalize common-sense building...

Truman is absolutely carrying urban development in Calgary ATM

I am right, CTV just messed up the article big time. The article mentions a new report done by Stantec, the Downtown Community Association, and the Kensington BIA that proposes 3 phases for improvements. That's exactly what the report they linked is. Whoever wrote the article is just very...

Skimmed thru the doc and calling it a "West Village" plan is a misnomer. It's really about Downtown West (14 St W - 8 St W, North of the tracks), not the real "West Village" (North of tracks, west of 14th St)

Macleod's inertia is not a question of city admin or engineers being short-sighted (although they have been), it's a question of politics. How much political capital would the "pro-urbanist" crowd burn trying to fix it? Because of space constraints, there aren't many solutions that don't...

I feel like his video doesn't really address the core argument why CT chose low floor for the Centre St corridor. Centre St is very space-constrained, and high floor platforms would extend the length of each platform significantly, raising station construction costs and causing more neighborhood...

Plenty to dislike about the area, but also keep in mind this will be 400m from Shaganappi BRT stops on either side (and potentially right next to one if they add a stop on Symons Valley Blvd). It's not all bad.

I mostly want to see density on Elbow Drive in that area anyways. It would be cool to see 5-over-1's along the entire Elbow corridor, alongside bike infrastructure upgrades to make Elbow the primary N-S bike connection in South Central Calgary.

And that's what they think is appropriate for a main street, a block away from a future LRT station :/

I wonder how long it will be before the Calgary region surpasses Metro Vancouver to be the third largest city in the country. Given Vancouver's serious lack of land and affordability issues, I think it's quite concievable in the next 30-40 years.

^^ I think it would be an excellent way to fund transit operations

I really doubt that, what are you basing that on? An underpass like I proposed would probably clock in somewhere around $150M based on comparable projects in Calgary. The cost of tunneling (plus stations!) is far more than that.

If we made 16th Avenue go under Center St like I proposed, you could arrange the turn movements as follows: It would be a pseudo-interchange, working similarly to how WB Memorial turns onto SB Crowchild right now. You would need to sign it well (and expropriate some parking lots to make the...