You know there's already bike lanes there, and they've been there since 2017, right?

While I would love a water feature in said park comparable at least to the one in Paul Kane Park, you can get admittedly get quite a bit of bike lane for the cost of a decent sized water feature, and the bike lanes don't really suck up as much maintenance. I LOVE the water feature at Paul Kane...

When the city cited the cost of the downtown bike network at over $11 million while it was being built, they included the cost of all of the traffic lights that needed to be replaced anyways at a cost of ~$250,000 per intersection. I'm expecting we will find many, many more cases where money...

That does sound like a big number until you put it in context and realize it's actually a minuscule slice of our transportation spending and is well short of the cost of the 23 Avenue Interchange, and how this city is full of neighbourhoods that don't pay enough in taxes to cover their servicing...

I've seen a lot more elderly folks bicycling ever since we got a proper bike grid to connect the gaps in the MUP network, and a water feature would also be nice for those of us who undertake modest levels of exercise as we get around (these things are actually really for those who aren't...

I'm... kind of surprised that they made it through the 1990s.

I was really hoping for Paul Kane Park but bigger.

Westmount, sadly, is a great place to find houses which already desperately need that costly renovation, or which have experienced renovations at the hands (hooves?) of folks with the design sense of actual bison. But the form of the neighbourhood is great. Sadly, there is comparatively little...

I'm GenX and I rent a little old house in the core. I've mostly been an apartment dweller, but I like living in it: it's in a great location for me and I like having a little garden to putter around in while I conspire with magpies and incite the yard geese. I wouldn't want to be the guy who...

Repairs to the library parkade would've eaten up most of the cost. I'd be surprised if we'd even gotten $5 million of park in the whole project, mostly in the form of concrete to cover said roof.

Yeah, I saw Obj3cts today when I was having lunch with a friend at Dorinku Osaka, and JMT's new location when we were walking on Whyte. I kind of liked the JMT location on 100 Ave, but it might not have been the best spot for attracting walk-ins, especially with their focus upon late night...

It's actually more complicated than that. COVID didn't help, but it came in concert with the province pulling the rug out from under us in terms of funding (after never really turning around from Klein era austerity regardless of who was in power) and once again deciding to neglect social...

We have no shortage of overly wide stroads and our core actually remains dominated by them. The big barrier to parades is actually the significant expense and the huge amount of organization and volunteer time that goes into them vs the limited payoff that actually comes from them. This is why...

Just realized I never introduced myself. I'm a dirt person/GIS wonk who occasionally gets kidnapped by archaeologists, hence the user name. I grew up out in Bon Accord, drifted away for a bit, came back and moved to Edmonton in 2000. Since then, I have lived in Belvedere, Abbottsfield...

So, this video came on the wake of a bunch of civic vision which resulted in destroying Chinatown for a bunch of big brown shiny boxes, and ironically promises to build a new Chinatown east of downtown which no civic government actually made any progress on, especially not Decore's. Hell...

So, our version of "defund the police" amounted to giving them a little less of a budget increase than they requested one year even though EPS spends on utterly stupid things habitually (like a half million dollar armoured personnel carrier that they didn't seem to know how to use and then...

Meh. If Blatchford were being privately developed it'd be much, much more watered down.

But some of us definitely do not want a house in the suburbs except possibly for target practice.

I've had it happen with domestic baggage when arriving in core hours, though it's perhaps less bad than it used to be.

I suspect that YEG has some pretty archaic technology down in its baggage bowels. I can fly to major global hub airports like SFO or NRT and my bag is usually coming down the belt when I get there, despite these airports processing massively more baggage from massively larger planes.