I think around $30 million?

Arc is still neccesary for a bunch of fare groups, like UPass, public and catholic student transit passes, and ETS@Work. And the cards are good backups for when Interac or one of the credit card providers are having an outage.

Launch of Arc tap to pay allows transit riders to pay directly with credit or debit December 5, 2025 Media are invited to join representatives from the City of Edmonton and Strathcona County alongside community and regional partners to learn more about the launch of the last phase of Arc...

What do you think the odds are of this going ahead? From what I hear, the economics of a multi-unit at Blatchford are hard to swing, and this is a pretty large build. Fingers crossed it stays viable and gets built.

Not as an actual Arc Card no, but you can use a debit/credit card that's stored in google/apple wallet. Each will have a separate cap though, so if you tap your physical debit card in the morning and then tap your phone—with that same card stored in google wallet—in the afternoon, you'll have...

Now they're just edging us.

Nope, but to be fair to the truck driver there are only two signs warning drivers lol

I think all of the piles at the EcoDen site are in the ground; last night the pile driver was parked on the road.

They'll also accept e-bikes and children's bikes!

If open payment launches on December 8 as intended, hopefully that'll help boost the numbers a bit more. If someone needs to head a few blocks down Whyte, go to an event, or are from out of town, being able to tap something they already have with no extra thought or effort needed, ETS will be...

Yep! I threw a bit about it onto the HLB Wikipedia page a while back: City Council considered converting the bridge's upper deck into traffic lanes for vehicles on several occasions, starting in 1938. An engineering consultant hired by council to report on the state of the Edmonton Radial...

Basically, policies passed by council when Blatchford was started require that its utility customers pay no more than what other utility customers in the city pay. Because utility rates dropped following the consumer carbon tax's demise, the Blatchford utility must lower its rates as well, per...

Ah ok, I thought the wood planks would fall down for some reason 😅

They moved the dirt ramp from the southwest corner to the northwest corner yesterday. Didn't the development permit mention underground parking? I can't imagine they'll be digging any deeper at this point, so would it still even be possible to have one? Or maybe they're the ones who want to have...

Noticed this update on the Infill Infrastructure Fund webpage: Fund Status As of October 7, 2025, 17 projects have completed the application process and have had funds allocated. $24M of $39M fund has been allocated to projects; $15M remains to be allocated 2,642 housing units are in the 17...

Off topic, but in yesterday's council meeting administration said that the first 15 (of 30) new TPOs are graduating tomorrow and will start their first shifts next week (teamed up with field training officers). The next 15 will start in or around June.

I posted about it a few days ago yeah, but it's definitely worth talking about more. So excited to have a fire station right by the neighbourhood! And I bet the fire crews are happy too, given that they spent a few years doubled up in another station after their old one was demolished for the...

Municipalities are not directly involved in the actual planning. Alberta Infrastructure leads, and consults Alberta Health (well, it's successors), AHS/Covenant, and other stakeholders (i.e., the UofA, and the Stollery Foundation). Munis can be consulted on what their needs are, where they think...

Like I said, I'm fine with that. I was worried it'd get completely neglected, so I'm glad that it'll at least be kept in good condition so that whoever buys it can focus their resources on executing their new vision, rather than playing catch up with maintenence :)