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Yeah, they were absolutely given a chance to host an LRT station near the location of the old bus loop, but they wanted ETS off their property, and now they have a minimally larger parking lot.

Plus, living in one of the more NW locales in Blatchford, it's actually fine. It can and will get better as infrastructure fills in and trees grow and there's a bit less empty, but I have lived shorter distances from LRT stations and had worse walks to the station due to less walkable...

Plus the new platform supports full-length trains and doesn't have the same negative impact on traffic on Princess Elizabeth (including ETS buses).

And the inevitably lengthy process of actually figuring out what they're going to build, which seems to be quite nascent at this point.

A few years ago the other half and I found a bunch of equipment from Yellowhead in a stairwell of her condo building. It was expensive diagnostic stuff for monitoring the fermentation. It was clearly labelled as theirs so we set about trying to figure out how to get it back to its rightful...

It's definitely growing on me.

Probably clearing away the mountain of concrete so they're not constantly operating heavy equipment in the immediate vicinity.

I talked to a rather senior operator after he finished his shift. He said signal testing is already complete and the line is good. This is just stowing extra cars in periods where they are reducing capacity. They will basically build a train of the excess cars, and then run them back to the barn...

It would be useful for those living in the city's extreme southwest. From downtown, an express bus will beat an LRT that's capped at 80km/h (and whose current fastest segments are limited to 70km/h) under all but the worst traffic circumstances. If we could find some way to upgrade the Capital...

Prior to being a parking lot, this location actually was rail oriented industry with spurs servicing a grain elevator, among other things.

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Yeah, and when it comes to those time savings, you're going to be benefitting from that whether they use that time for more work or not (I would definitely always discourage anyone under me from getting into the habit of using that commute time to do more work). If your people have more time to...

Ehhh. A lot of workers just really benefit in terms of productivity from being left alone, and being in an environment that is actually tailored to work rather than one which is tailored to excessive levels of supervision.

Now I'm getting a cruller craving.

K.

Well, adding a little gentle density to mature neighbourhoods actually is a great way to achieve transit ridership through development, and it's a lot easier to get going than 200-400 unit apartment buildings.

It turns out that urbanism isn't just making everyone go to a particular part of the city for a particular part of the day.

Arguing for return to office is also moot. Remote work was becoming more and more of a thing even before COVID came along and that trend and capability isn't something that's going away just because we're pretending the pandemic isn't still going strong. I had an employer start offering WFH all...

These lots represented a truly trivial portion of downtown's parking inventory, and these lots were not heavily used even before COVID came along.

I actually really enjoyed living in the Quarters. It was quieter than anywhere I had lived in the city to that point and I had great access to bike infrastructure, transit and amenities. But it's hard to recover from shittyparkinglotitis, especially if the landowners are in no hurry to sell. All...