Recent content by Wax

They will.

Idk if there is a thread for this but 149st and 87ave apartments, looking not too bad.

2.2m of shoulders wow…

^my guess is that the transfer to valley line will make downtown the main ridership driver, with university coming in second. (But thats why we need a study…)

As we have no heavy rail currently, there is a world where we just extend the LRT as the “temporary air rail link” and have heavy rail built out once hsr/heavy rail to calgary goes ahead. ~~if*

Like I agree when you say there is ugly infill, but I honestly have no clue how you could reasonably make it “nicer” without upping the costs for it.

Again what would the design standards be? What do you want to see?

What standards should be put in place to improve designs of infill? Does it come at the cost of housing price? Or something else?

It would be interesting to see if we are being “hosed” with how we spend our tax dollars, but I think thats less of an Edmonton problem and more of an extreme capitalism problem… I definitely think that we probably are not getting the best bang for our buck on most things. Although an extensive...

Malmo plains?? Is this counting the new Michener park area? Or is southgate getting new TOD?

If 5 years seems like a lot the capital line and metro line extensions have had the 30% design done for 4 years… it will probably be another 5 before we get close to another LRT extension. Valley line concept plans started in 2009…

I was referring to the style of building. (It was supposed to be ironic but clearly that didnt come through in text) And yea LRT construction is a pain around the area.

You can now live in the suburbs for more expensive! And deal with WEM traffic… yay

Ah that makes more sense now. Thanks!