I can be a bit of a contrarian I concede.

The more I look at it the more I think it might actually have turned out kind of alright, maybe? I think those huge glass roofs would have looked pretty great, definitely better than the render seems to suggest. Depending on the exact materials they had planned for the rest of it, I could see it...

BLVD of broken dreams

Old BLVD building at Jasper and 108 St. has been painted grey and they seem to be doing all sorts of other renovations. Does anyone know what exactly the plans for it are?

Coming along.

From the pedway between the Marriott and Stantec.

If you want more people to give up their cars (which I certainly want too), promising them longer trip times isn't really going to convince them at all I don't think. People value their time and mobility quite a lot. 15 minutes is a fair chunk of time to add to every trip you make into downtown...

To play off of this analogy, I'd say my worry is that the city just bought a persian cat instead of an english shepherd to herd sheep.😄 We build transit infrastructure for a purpose and I don't think it's unreasonable to argue that different approaches to transit will address those purposes...

I'm jealous!

Having walked past 104 St. by the Holiday Inn as part of my morning walk to work the last 4 years or so I'm going to have to very strongly disagree. While that little park just north of the holiday inn sometimes has some sketchy people hanging out in there, the feeling of urban decay walking...

I think I mentioned it before in this thread, but I don't have any inherent problem with slower urban vehicles, if this line followed an old radial railway line route I'd have no qualms. But this line is clearly being built with commuters in mind, Millwoods isn't that close, but it's using a...

The TOD proposals are definitely the one thing that make me think this line might have a been a good investment and that I'm out to lunch in my worries about it... but until we see the Bonnie Doon and Strathern redevelopments start in earnest I'd still take the proposals with a grain of salt.

Aah, fair enough, I was just going by what Google was saying.

As a temporary measure it made pretty decent sense, the convention centre was going unused and homeless camps were growing. I absolutely get it. However if the city tries to purchase this hotel or any other buildings in the Quarters to convert into more permanent transitional housing they'll be...

What lack of understanding are you referring to? Because again after my most recent walk I think Edmontonian's negative understanding of the area appears to still largely correspond with the area's unfortunate reality.

It'll take 30 minutes they say, with some variability caused by the fact that the train stops at some traffic lights. A drive from Mill Woods Town Centre to City Centre mall is 23 min without much traffic to about 35 min with traffic, factor in the fact that you actually have to get to the...

I'm sure that aspect is appreciated, but the same could be said of increased electric bus service and would cost a fraction of the LRT. Ultimately we'll have to see how the ridership numbers play out, but I really worry this could sour a lot of people on the concept of LRT as a whole.

Just walked by this one the other day, lots of homeless just sitting on the concrete in front of the unleased retail bays, plenty of broken windows right now. I think it makes the whole city seem like a bad investment when a developer who takes a risk to build a nice looking building here is...

This just reminds me of how incredibly slow these trains are going to be running in some areas... 😕 I really do hope these trains in the end will be worth the billions despite ending up going slower than a bus on some stretches of road. I worry people are expecting an experience similar to the...

Pleas for apathy because Edmonton isn't as bad as LA or a 3rd world country is exactly the sort of harmful whataboutism crap that's allowed the core of the city to backslide as it has. I don't think we should have to wait until things get to drug warlord levels to start actually caring and...