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Yeah, something governments with a world view centred on ideas of ideal communities seem to do. Not only governments though, street car...

I don't think you can limit that to authoritarian governments. Washington, DC was carved out out of both Maryland and Virginia, and...

I think they've realized there hasn't been much of the vision thing from this government, and not much interesting in the positive sense...

They need to sell this to not Calgary. Whatever stops someone in Stettler from complaining.

I don’t think the train would go to Cochrane itself, it would be a stop on the train on the Banff-Calgary corridor, which has a...

I think it is likely better to start with active transportation to work in the census, which is found to correlate with being a renter...

They call it 5A now which makes it harder to find. https://www.calgary.ca/planning/transportation/pathway-bikeway-plan.html

A small one at fares envisioned by studies that only considered the relatively high fare model. likely 10 years+ ago now, it predicted...

That was studied in 2010-11 ish, an internal government study only (sorry). Using the QEII corridor isn't viable/edit: doesn't save...

Glacier Path is going strong still, wonder when the city will bring in the Bobcat to clear it out, been mid may the last couple years.

I think the more likely outcome is Japanese style commuter HSR. In the west we generally conceptualize HSR in relation to air travel...

This is extremely ambitious, especially for a government that I don't see as being pro-train or even pro-transit. Credit where it's due...

If you fire up spin I think you’ll find CN and CPKC having expansion room to quad track on most if not all the corridors that that they...

It all depends. Calgary and Edmonton is a much larger project, with a larger benefit in past studies. Both Calgary-Edmonton and...

I don't think they fully understand the scope of what they're trying to do, and that the cost/benefits of most of their moves are...