Beautiful facility! And some housing nextdoor is going up. And raised crossings!!

How about 6pm when Symphony in the Square has 15,000 people, and thousands of kids, entering our downtown? Cause that’s when the LRT had 7 fent zombies and their trash all over the valley line station. Just insane. Thankfully I give the police $3000+ a year and I still have to fear for my...

I’d love to see the city find ways to spur on more grassroots clean ups. Build a bit of a culture where we call on all residents in April to do their part. I know different efforts exist, with schools and leagues and businesses. But I never hear a lot in media or from city leadership. When I...

It’s so confusing, as someone who is not at all ACAB aligned, to understand the issues for policing in our downtown. I NEVER see cops around. We pay them better than almost anywhere in Canada, they use up one of the highest proportions of our budget of any city in canada, there is hugely obvious...

Why is Translink safe and ETS not? Drug issues, homelessness, progressive leadership in council for the last 15 years. What’s the reason it’s so, so much worse here? Ridership? Fare gates? Station design? Policing?

Interesting. Appreciate the insights. I haven’t heard negative experiences from my friends using them there. Seems like a gap in security for sure. The bike lockers are definitely a plus for security, and agreed on how they can be spaced throughout a campus. They’re just so big and expensive...

Your concern and comparison on this thread title and the idea of the LRT one shows you’re being driven by ideology over facts. While sprawl can be used with negative connotations, it’s also just a commonly used term to describe the outward growth of cities. My comments about your claims on...

While not a part of Whikwentowin renewal, it sounds like they’ll try to time 100ave renewal in line with the neighborhood to get it all done. I don’t think they want a long term gap there, it just sits under a different funding area and project leadership.

While these are nice, I really don’t think they make sense for major destinations. Instead, we should have bike rooms or parkades with significant camera and security measures to keep them safe. See Vancouver’s skytrain station bike storage for examples.

But P3s are magical and the best model!

Might be the main manager of the building or something? Somehow is involved with the whole property and also Phoenix diner. The turnover in that building is astounding.

I think he’s mocking AI slop and saying it’s a “tell” of BE’s incompetence and leadership issues.

I don’t get why our city doesn’t treat central areas with high foot traffic with a more incremental mindset. I get that random suburban sweeping of gravel from parking spaces is most efficiently done in one coordinated sweep. So wait for all snow to be gone, etc is key. But we should treat our...

With all due respect, accessible by walking vs “walkable” aren’t the same. 95% of shoppers will drive to this. The parking lot and comparables nearby prove that (currents in windemere) Just because stuff is close, doesn’t mean it’s not car dependent in design. This is just another car...

Good article. Tone deaf title. Don’t make it about rec centres instead of roads when traffic is getting worse and Lewis farms is going way over budget. Make it about the costs of roads and property taxes. Most people don’t want new rec centres. They want lower taxes. Well written overall...

Yeah, the pressure ended January 20th. Anything since then is incompetence.

I had to email the city (and props to them for changing it) for how they kept brushing snow off sidewalks into the street and not clearing through the street crossings to the next sidewalk. So every road crossing was just 3x thicker snow than the original sidewalks even had. The incompetence...

The owner of that place is a moron according to a few different people I know haha. Not sure the full story, but the Phoenix diner thing is apparently owned by the building owner too?

This sorta quote on “why Edmonton” doesn’t make me feel great… “It’s the foundation for CWB, and I think we wanted to respect that, and I think it’s a great to have recognized history.”

If you’ve ever been to a brand new city and tried to take a train vs a bus at the airport, the conversation is over. Sure, speed might not be way better. But simplicity, weather comfort, directness, capacity, frequency…the train wins it all. Same reason the Cartmell supporters wanting BRT...