Having traveled on both recently, I have to say Air Canada now has the superior product. From their app, to their staff, to onboard experience, to assistance during IROPs. WestJet is not what it used to be and it has a lot of low cost competitors nipping at its heels.

The City of Calgary is launching RiverHall YYC this weekend. It is pop up placemaking at Lot 6 featuring a container bar, live music and rotating food/beer vendors. The city has made a few placemaking attempts at Lot 6 over the last few years that have kind of fallen flat but I saw what they...

Hopefully with all this new development on 4th somebody, somewhere actually decides to plant a few lilac trees as part of their development. I've always thought it's strange the street known for the lilac festival has zero lilacs on it. Thinking about it now, that new development on the corner...

Great they are talking public art but I still feel ripped off we never got the spaceman statue shown in the renderings for their project across the street on the corner of 5th.

Update on the Olympic Plaza design work. While I'm happy to hear that they are contemplating a skating rink in the design, I hope they recognize that what people love about Olympic Plaza currently is that the skating rink has refrigeration so it is one of the only outdoor rinks in the city that...

When I was in there during Stampede, there was a Calgary Stampede merch store in BMO across from the coffee shop and grab and go by the east entrance. Not sure if it's open outside of Stampede time though...

The addition to the Eau Claire Lumber building are public washrooms to replace the old ones that used to be located at the splash park that was there previously. I was hoping the building would have been relocated to be a little closer to the lagoon so that any patio would have a nice view of...

In this case it is definitely worse to be a non-commital owner. Bhatti has said publicly before at Green Line Board meetings that their traffic light risk model went from a yellow light to a red light when they started looking at costing from local subcontractors who were unexpectedly pricing...

The Premier had finally put to bed speculation that the UCP will block the revised Stage 1 from going forward. Assuming the Feds give the thumbs up this week, hopefully we can finally start talking about what happens next for not just Green Line but for transit investment in Calgary instead of...

I enjoy how Sonya Sharp, as chair of the arena committee, gets called out on her shiny stars comment. I think the arena is a good investment for our city but to pretend it is an essential investment and expanding the LRT isn't is just eye-rolling to me...

Funny enough, Air Canada seems to agree about everyone's thoughts on HSR.... https://globalnews.ca/news/10675060/air-canada-tgv-train-company-bidder-electric-fast-rail-project/

Sounds like the answers are Yes, they know how much it will cost and Yes they are already advocating with the Feds

https://calgaryherald.com/opinion/columnists/opinion-green-line-is-the-transit-feeder-main-for-the-city

Can we talk about how this was the plan for the now deferred Centre St station? You ride a subway in Europe and in order to do so you walk down a short staircase to the platform. Here in Calgary we were apparently planning a massive underground station with elevators, escalators, and a mezzanine...

Millican station was one of the few stations that has been planned for Park N Ride since day 1 of Green Line so it's not really fair to say it has no Park N Ride potential. Now how many people outside the community of Lynnwood/Ogden will actually be willing to take the time to drive there and...

Ugh.... this is disappointing news. One of the biggest strengths of the Saddledome is the variety and availability of food options. One of my biggest disappointments with attending a concert at Roger's Place was the long lines and crappy selection for the concessions. This kind of reinforces my...

Tuesday is officially the big day.... https://calgarysun.com/news/local-news/green-line-cost-pressure-details-emerge/wcm/18200be2-3ac6-465a-a5e9-8f2900edb3a2?taid=66a6a2342711cc0001c2d0a2&utm_campaign=trueanthem&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter

Looks unique! It still really bothers me Calgary hasn't increased the setbacks from the river required for development. There's an argument to be made for flood protection but really it comes down to a narrow strip of green next to the rivers doesn't do justice to how much of an asset they are...

Does anything have to happen in terms of provincial regulations to open up the mass timber mid-rise market in Alberta? (Apologies for sidetracking the thread with these questions)

Would the construction cost of mass timber versus concrete make it a cheaper option in the 8-10 story range? Could it lead to a new mid-rise boom if we encouraged their construction here in Alberta?