That's... awful... Heritage Valley just started construction at a cost of $300m/km including the recent cost increase and an OMF. Metro Line is a similar length and it could double to $600m/km and still be $2.7 billion. Is it the tunnel? If it's going to cost them several billion to tunnel...

40 St is complete and they’re now working on Hermitage Road eastbound. Turned out better than I imagined. Instant protected bike lanes. A couple of pickup truck owners seemed to be annoyed by the presence of these encumbrances.

They'll easily do the maximum 6% grades light rail can go to. The only thing that made me think they weren't going to run the gantry all the way to the grade ramp was the lack of final column directly adjacent to the ramp like they've put in Vancouver (ok more like a concrete pad at that point)

Translink is losing pandemic era provincial funding at the end of 2025. They're probably going to play chicken and see if the BC NDP government is going to allow a third of Vancouver's transit service to be cut. The West Coast Express commuter rail is only operating at 40% of pre-pandemic...

How many changes in vehicular direction does the city think 96 St needs? 😅 Jasper Ave to 102 Ave - NB 102 Ave to 102a Ave - Two way 102a Ave to 103 Ave - SB 103 Ave to 106 Ave - Two way 106 Ave to 107a Ave - NB (new) 107a Ave to 118 Ave - SB (107a Ave to 111 Ave is new) I noticed construction...

I honestly forget that door facing the square exists. I always use the Valley Line facing door.

I would've loved to see this full Toward 40 treatment all the way to 137 Ave. Especially where they have that angle parking for the church. 50 St to Belvedere would be nice. Traffic volume on 130 Ave is low so I'm comfortable with riding it but we're trying to get more casual cyclists. 129 Ave...

They started this work, line painting looks done it's just a matter of installing the Street Labs style curbs and barriers. https://www.edmonton.ca/sites/default/files/public-files/40-Street-Hermitage-Road-Final-Design.pdf As I am often on this corridor, I am excited to see and use the final...

Land survey paint and flags along the new Fort Road SUP. Also 132 Ave is fully ripped up between Fort Road and 68 St. Hopefully there's a plan to connect 132 Ave bike lanes to the Fort Road SUP.

Surprised Horse Hill is so low given Evergreen trailer park which is served by the 121 has a significant number of housing units in Horse Hill (maybe the majority?) although it will dwindle as more neighbourhoods are built. Marquis East with its planned mix of housing units (mostly townhomes...

So the NE LRT shared path was relatively bustling this morning. Quite the scene crossing 95 St with 7 other cyclists on the walk signal. Hopefully showing people that cycling in Edmonton is very doable. Not sure about today but yesterday our office bike parking was quite full. This too hot...

I want to argue Vancouver's a bit. They have segments of protected BC Parkway along the Expo Line. Also they may not have a huge network of protected bike lanes but they do have bikeways that almost act like crosstown bicycle arterials although drivers will find it difficult to impossible to get...

Finally had a chance to look through the Wihkwentowin plans. Love it so far. Especially closing the entire street next to Paul Kane although does it all need to be green space? Maybe a basketball court that could be used as a little popup farmers market weekend mornings. I know there's already...

One SUP that's not on Google Maps yet is the one along the south Yellowhead retaining wall, from 89 St to 81 St. Not sure if it extends further east but 81 St is a designated bikeway and 89 St will tie in to the new 124 Ave bike path heading west to Blatchford Gate. My only quibble about that...

Our firm acquired a smaller firm in which there is an office on the south side and some of the staff in our downtown tower are basically begging to work out of that south side office instead of trying to absorb the new staff into our downtown tower. So I see that push. Running LRT to every outer...

Looks like it was rendered in Minecraft. I do like it though. It's like the flow of the river. We have a decent stock of standard boxes, bring on interesting architectural features.

Good, my kids will hopefully stop bugging me to take them to BC because Alberta is supposedly lame for mountain biking.

Oh my kid's school switch from paper monthly passes to loading passes on Arc Cards. $55 a month and my kid is using transit A LOT now so I got it. How it works is that even though his Arc card is on my account, Capital Region Partners is assigned as an agent who loads the pass on there. I had to...

That video might even be from summer 2022. This is a photo I took in October 2022. And a couple of weeks ago.

Anecdotal experiences are more powerful than people realize. I stopped taking Vancouver Skytrain after repeated incidents over a 6 month period that turned my 1 hour commute into 3 up to a whopping 6 hour commute. I didn't get home until 11pm on the worst of it. 99.9% reliability means little...