I think I might have been the one who counted the 190. It's important to note that the parkade in the old designs was separate from ~40 event-level stalls accessed from the loading ramp next to the home dressing room, presumably intended for Flames players and coaches. I'm about as anti-car as...

It seems reasonable to me that there would be a fourth hub in Canada, given that there's 3300 km and 18-20%+ of the country's population between Toronto and Vancouver. The three major US airlines each have a hub in the Mountain time zone, even though Denver, Phoenix and Salt Lake City are...

One thing about Dollarama that is a little underrated in urban communities is that they provide a really broad range of goods, which is convenient for households who don't want to make the trip out to a suburban mall. It's not generally great stuff, but sometimes I don't want the 5-star...

Hoo boy, that's an old count. I know it's the most recent available, but it's over a decade old. A couple of points: 6 hour counts don't include evening or weekend traffic which I would expect would be high for accessing a shopping centre and regional park Comparing the 2012 to the same...

Does anybody out there have schedule info for On-It during the summer this year? I can see the late fall schedule if I dig around on their website, but that's less than the full summer schedule was, and archive.org only has a snapshot from April before the schedule info came out.

Sorry to disappoint you, but I'm just saying what the last design had. Two separate ramps, with two street interfaces, going in two different directions to physically separate facilities. Yes, they were near each other, and they probably will be near each other, but they do not have to be. And...

Weird nobody worried about 5000 homes in Cranston with only three egress/ingress points. The good thing about a small area is that people can walk out if they need to on the two pathways or even across grass; a big area like Cranston forces people to use their cars to go through the more limited...

The needed vehicle access for event centre loading and the optional vehicle access for the parkade so the 100 richest guys in the city don't have to walk across the street are completely separate. They were completely separate in the previous design, with different entrances (although the two...

Some interesting concepts. Four of the five do the most important thing IMO, which is create a separated bike path all the way to 14th St. (Braiding Waters has a confusing mix of random pathways crossing each other.) It's great to create new opportunities, but that's the one that is an actual...

I think you're 100% right; I was talking about the best thing to do given building cycling in industrial areas, but industrial areas are absolutely low ROI, for so many reasons. I don't think this is a very strong argument. For one, of the 7 km between Elbow and Bow, 1.2 km of this is in mixed...

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...