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I suspect I'm going to be crossing a lot by the Aviation Museum at Tower Rd and biking south from there. East connections are supposed to be in the works.

Well, between the increased fire risks from aged electrical and heating systems, and the increased fire risk associated with derelict/disused properties, that's going to unduly capture historic/character structures.

Thing is, when the other half and I were house shopping, we found that the "deals" in deep suburbs weren't just sacrificing location. They were also sacrificing energy efficiency, build quality, legal secondary suites, etc, and anything that was really comparable but somewhere else was going to...

I apologize for taking you seriously, but concede that if "hyperloop" were anything but vapourware it would move fewer people than HSR in about the same amount of time from gate to gate while still costing at least twice as much as maglev, using the most optimistic details available.

It could at one point actually manage the run in 3.5 hours back when it was introduced, with its top operating speed being noted as 85mph. It was never frequent, though, nor was it a particularly great ride. Technically, even though it ran on rails, the Budd RDC equipment they used didn't really...

Actually, I do. While I understand that at one point it could do the run in 3.5 hours back in 1955, that CP proceeded to vigorously neglect the service and constantly lobby for its discontinuation because they did not want to support passenger rail at all on the corridor, even if VIA was running...

Hell, if there were a just reasonably fast train that would get me from core to core in approximately three hours and it had decent service frequency, I would take that option literally 100% of the time, and not hate going to Calgary with the heat of a thousand dying suns. Just to get there...

It would be more of a curiosity than a game-changer. It offers so very little in terms of real world advantages over technology that already exists (especially for the Edmonton-Calgary context), and poses significant disadvantages in terms of cost and complexity (like just safely getting people...

They did fund LRT expansion in Edmonton and Calgary during their tenure. But admittedly they are often not as urbanist as I would like them to be, and there is a certain NIMBYness within the base.

A Honda Fit, even. She was car-free before buying that in 2018. But usually when I run into her in the riding, she's walking. This isn't to say that the party doesn't have a strong NIMBY/car-brained wing, but it's not her.

Yeah. The Landmark and Encore builds are really impressing me, and it's a far cry from the sorts of weird car-centred townhouse mazes that were grunted out in (for example) Abbottsfield in the terminal 1970s, or the copy-paste sprawl of the 2000s. Mutti seemed a bit lacklustre, and the Carbon...

Construction on road and infrastructure links to actually internally link to the NAIT-Blatchford LRT are supposed to start in the spring (and hopefully gets somewhere by summer when the other half and I move in), at which point it actually starts to fulfil the "transit oriented development"...

Well, of all of these things, housing costs seems like the most salient draw factor really. Even with patch jobs still paying well, there's a lot less opportunity to get into that nowadays and less long-term security, and it's really not a sector for everyone. The tax end of things doesn't seem...

So is this just a population average, or does it apply on a like for like level with similar positions in the same sector? Is a software developer going to make more here as a software developer? Is a teacher going to make more as a teacher? Is it just the concentration of oil patch jobs which...

Yeah, I'm already seeing extensive tree planting, though a few apparently needed to be restarted due to disease. The other approach is that the streets which front yards face aren't the collector roads, and instead face routes that aren't going to be attractive to zoom down. If they're not...