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Several posters on this site have wondered why Jasper Avenue couldn't have sequenced lights that enable motorists/cyclists to travel at a constance speed and thereby not have to stop at red lights. It is a mathematical impossibility to have two-way traffic sequenced to achieve that outcome...

@constance_chlore and @ADob -- heads up... this guy has been on this forum for years spewing his from-the-gut B.S. I suspect he has problems beyond the scope of repair to his rantings. My advice -- just ignore him as others have learned to do.

Nope

If one doesn't have the choice, expectation doesn't even enter into the decision. Good Architecture is not governed by cost to the extent that you might expect. Edmonton developers can do a lot better.

^ I may be wrong but I believe it only ever carried passenger rail cars. I rode the train from the then downtown Edmonton CP Station to Saskatchewan several times in very early days (mine). The freight yards were (and the remnants still are) in Old Strathcona. It also had the streetcar...

That's what is depicted. So who knows?

^ You do recognize that I said solutions (plural). Are you trying to bake another nothing burger?

I should say -- it looks nearly as tall as the 13 storey building behind it in the render placement.

Engineers with Solutions.

I can't wait to carve my initials into respective bar stools at each of the two watering holes. White Russians please -- level 1; Balck Russians please -- level 2!

^ That and general shortsightedness combined with corporate Avaritia Maxima.

Sadly, many Edmonton developers have a group-think mindset that doesn't allow them to see beyond present-day opportunities. It hasn't always been so... but the current "don't risk it" attitude will get blown out of the water at some point and a new leader or two in the development game will...

^ Thank-you. I have an Indian client who is building 2 houses in a fire section of Malibu, California. He is originally from the Bengal State of northeast India and I love to get into long conversations of learning about his childhood upbringing. With another former client, principal in a...

^ Dig deeper... it is all bad.

^ And the City's retail scene in terms of street locales takes another gigantic hit. There is a well-defined choice between ordering online and having deliveries to your door vs supporting local retailers in bricks-and-mortar locations on the City Streets.