Got back this morning from Las Vegas and have to say our image for travellers either returning home or arriving in our city is not inspiring. The US corridor is long, nothing special, then customs. Waited 28 minutes for any luggage to appear at 1 AM. This is a bit better than last time when...
This is the newly finished supporting structure of Whitemud Creek halfway between Snow Valley and Alfred Savage. For most of the work they put a lower level.protection of a small layer of rocks while putting a full wall at each end. Today with the creek running somewhat high its already...
Lots of stuff in the background happening. AB transportation is building up a rail unit now. Hired the director in late fall and slowly filling positions. Been told there are regular meetings between the Province and Prairie Link. So far though it’s just more studies. But with $14B in...
Once again we get a storm that we knew was coming for multiple days and yet I did not see evidence of one snow plow yesterday in my area of 111th Street to 23rd Avenue to Terwilligar Rec Centre at 8 PM. Snow had been going for about 9 hours at that point. Today I see two snow plows with blades...
Biggest problem compared to the US is in Canada, passenger trains do not have priority. Causes all sorts of delays which reduces your customer base and the spiral continues. I’ve read that when VIA was created there was a federal bill to prioritize passenger trains, but it died at the end of a...