I can’t see 170 or 75 Street becoming freeways. 170 Street is too close to the Henday to make converting it to a freeway worthwhile, while 75 Street from the Capilano Bridge to Argyll Road runs right of front of houses on both sides, which would all have to be torn down to convert it to a...

And despite these points, some people in here so fervently defend not using crossing gates even south of Davies. *facepalm*

Does anyone know what speeds they'll run the trains across Princess Elizabeth Avenue? I'm hoping for 50 km/h but the curve seems quite tight with little superelevation, so I'm worried the trains will still crawl across the intersection.

Terwillegar wasn't converted to a freeway because they just couldn't find the funding for that (the braided ramps and a reorganized interchange at Whitemud Drive, plus the giant cloverstack at the Henday, all lead to the cost ballooning), plus, it would be limited in utility until it was...

Wait, late December as in next year, or in two weeks?

Drove around Blatchford for a bit, including up to the 119th Avenue crossing at the LRT tracks (which may or may not have been legal, idk, there were no barriers but it wasn't paved). I'm guessing that at this point in the season, construction work would be mostly stopped, so now's a good recap...

The official Blatchford website shows the correct station location

Went back to my fantasy map. This time, I threw realism out the window in terms of what we could reasonably afford to build. I went ahead and resurrected the old streetcar and extended it here and there, plus I added a streetcar line from Ordze to Bethel (I wanted to give @erudyk_29 a shorter...

And I don’t give a shit about what some people at a climate conference in DUBAI of all places are saying about us. We’re at least using our oil money to pay for livable wages and decent transit. What are they paying for? Giant oases in the middle of the desert built on the backs of slave labour?

As much as possible, I think we need to avoid branching on the Valley Line at all costs. The at-grade running severely handicaps peak frequency to no more than one train every five minutes, and branching means many areas of the line will see their frequency halved. Maybe a high-floor spur from...

None that have had to be developed on the remediated lands of a municipal airport that was operating flights until 2013. Instead of comparing this to some suburb in Windermere, compare it to Griesbach. I don't know how long ago it was an operational military base, but it's still being built out...

Please, this is Canada. 6 month’s probation shortened to three for “good behaviour”

Okay, you know what? We need to bite the bullet and just add crossing gates the whole way south from Davies. That Whitemud intersection in particular has been extremely problematic. You just can’t fix the stupidity of some of these drivers, but you can at least stop it from interfering with the...

The grading is there but it seems pointless. No development is planned for beyond the Henday at that location.

I guess. Funny enough, I wrote that in the description of the line but that Fort Sask needs to cough up the cash. After all, they were the ones who were so eager to let a 10-year old blow up the original bridge.

The old bridge into town is gone, so the line has to go way up to the newer freight bridge and backtrack to the old station in the middle of town.

Updated my map with an alternate route for the Metro Line through Sherwood Park and an S-bahn system for Edmonton. Diese Stadt ist ab nun Eigentum der Bundesrepublik Deutschland! (No straßenbahn though :( ) https://www.google.com/maps/d/edit?mid=1kbFShneob7LCpgRPWvYgFf8XAdRWU83w&usp=sharing

A Metro Line extension through Sherwood Park or a Capital Line extension through Northeast Edmonton?

If you’re worried about safe interchange spacing, I don’t think we need to worry about 137 Ave. However, 50th Street is a little too close to the Manning Drive interchange.