I got suggested a video about this on Youtube and it ended up being way too deep of a dive, but the Valley Line has an equivalent of sorts with Helsinki Light Rail 15 (Jokeri). It opened last year (ahead of schedule unlike ours lol) It's interesting to see similar distances and a similar...

Can't wait to see the difference to this exact angle in 5 years. If any area of downtown is going to transform the most, it's probably here.

Oooh Stratosphere finally broke ground. Every single time I visit Blatchford, there's more and more construction. It's much better than what it was last summer and it's a noticeable difference already.

Reddit was like this too when the post came up there.

I'm glad the only cost overruns for us were for the Capital Line extension. I would hate it there were scope reductions for the Valley Line. Genuinely feels like we dodged a bullet there based on sheer timing (and the fact that for some reason, the Green Line is heavily politicized)

Obj3cts is great! I'm personally loving the variety and steadily increasing amount of restaurants in downtown/core these days. It beats out whatever you can find in the suburbs and I'm all for this increasing and attracting more people to visit downtown.

Never knew I could get excited for seeing excavated dirt in a photo but this forum really does change people lol

Classic Premier’s Office shenanigans lmao

Honestly kinda wild that we have at least 2-3 concurrent LRT projects.

https://vancouversun.com/news/translink-warns-half-services-cut-without-funding It seems like ETS isn't the only one facing shortfalls, because damn this looks grim for Translink.

If this happens, I'll actually eat my hat. I hope to god it happens but I'm not going to be too sad if this never goes anywhere (would have great river valley views though)

https://www.bankofcanada.ca/2024/07/fad-press-release-2024-07-24/ So.. more multifamily construction soon maybe? (hopefully lol)

https://edmontonjournal.com/news/local-news/walterdale-bridge-two-way-traffic-proposal Well there's an incentive to live in downtown lol

Colliers has similar office vacancy numbers. Interestingly enough, they have downtown vacancy below 20%

Located downtown too which is nice! Anything that'll increase the video game/digital media scene here is a win

A few of my other friends are in the same boat. The only people who I know work for the private sector in DT all are at the banks, Stantec and some law firms. I'm obviously not counting crown corps as private too lol (AimCo, ATB)

Downtown worker here as well from the 41% public administration statistic, but I'm not doing a hybrid schedule to pump up those Valley Line ridership numbers lol

https://gis.edmonton.ca/portal/apps/storymaps/stories/366cd1ec73414f7998cf275b7e502e0b I'm not sure if this has been posted but I did just stumble on the official results of the Edmonton Business Census for O'Day-min. A total of 105,391 jobs are located in the ward. Around 1/6th of the employed...

This would be a massive Instagram photo destination and visitor draw so this has my vote too.

Why have yard when walkable city is your yard 🤔