Daniel

When neighbourhoods stagnate, we're not protecting them, we're weakening them. Pushing people out to the suburbs is not sustainable. ZBR is working. We often say we prefer rowhomes when towers are proposed and now we're getting it. Public engagement doesn't mean public agreement.

Residents speak for and against infill at packed Edmonton urban planning committee Nearly 75 people registered to speak and voice their thoughts for and against the city's two-year-old infill strategy.

Recently toured a planner on the fence on 8plexes thru Bonnie Doon, showing them how they're deeply used. On my street, we own and are the minority. Most rent but also have kids. Our nbhd school isn't closing, we all save $. Renter voices are routinely ignored. edmontonjournal.com/news/local-n...

Does anyone know when Wihkwentowin Neighbourhood Renewal is actually supposed to take place? like estimated years of construction?

oof big question, and it has to be both of course. Mainly I would say council not adequately funding the support infrastructure necessary for scaling transit with growth (or even getting to where we should be now...)

In my book, it's morally bankrupt to make families with less money live on 30,000 cars per day roads.

Raised crosswalk time!

Boulevards going in soon!

You can see the difference in sidewalk width at the edge of this construction phase (also love this sidewalk going right to the mall)

Building permit for a new daycare going up right next to some row housing, a strip mall, and a school!

The neighbourhood is undergoing neighbourhood renewal so the sidewalks are getting so much wider and TWSIs everywhere!

Cute 7-plex in Millhurst

We have such massive problems with expanding our network before we have the resources to properly utilize it

I think with trains this is likely, but I have heard Vancouver is not keeping up with bus fleet needs at the moment either

Canada's so good at turning bus lines that have the ridership to justify a metro line into trams that have the ridership to justify a metro line

The Eglinton Line is Open. Many, Many Thoughts. Toronto opens its first subway in nearly 25 years.

“Toronto got itself a much better transit network today. Eglinton is not perfect, and it’s not a subway, but it will make getting across the city faster and more comfortable.”

The amount of houses that alert me whenever I walk by them is ludicrous. I do not feel comfortable being filmed by private landowners when I am in public space

If the cameras only film private land go right ahead, but they should have not be pointed at the sidewalk

wild to advertise a massive surveillance network, but since it can find a lost dog it’s good now

Picture of the Edmonton council chambers.

🧵 Good morning Edmonton. We're live from the council chambers where the Urban Planning Committee will debate reducing housing options.

There are 60 speakers registered so there's a high chance this becomes two days. We'll be live posting so follow along to see how it goes!

Edmonton could be about to downzone most of our city!

I have an awful week so won’t be speaking, but follow along here for some not-so-neutral analysis and updates

Keeping up with fleet needs is one of the most important things we haven’t been doing enough of in Edmonton.

The lifespan of the U2s is like 30yrs, we will hit 50 before the new ones arrive

By 2027, over half of our bus fleet will be over the age of retirement

Everyone has to stop going to Mexico City before I do

It’s top 2 on my vacation list right now

stop times located at the near side of an intersection are between 4.2 to 5 seconds slower than far-side stops, with no impact on stop time variation. This is without accounting for the existence of right-turn lane, which consistently adds 2.1 to 3 seconds of delay. Therefore, allocation of bus stops at the near side of intersection that includes a right-turn lane for cars is not recommended in order to avoid time wasted without serving any passengers. In other words, if we considered Route 165, one route with the median number of near-side stops among the STM’s studied routes, the total number of near-side stops is 23 stops per direction (without the layovers). Therefore, moving these stops from near-side to far-side of the same intersection would save about 96 to 115 seconds (1.6 to 1.9 minutes) on total routedirection travel time. This means that, hypothetically, we can achieve about 5.2% to 6.1% saving in running time per direction due to the use of far-side stops along this route. This represents about 17% to 20% of Route 165 average total stop time per trip (which is about 30% of total travel time). However, this still does not account for savings that will be gained due to the absence of turning right lanes at the route far-side stops. That would achieve additional 29 to 42 seconds of saving (14 intersections have right-turn lane per route-direction), increasing the total saving to 6.7% to 8.4% in running time per route-direction. Hence, STM operates around 110 trips along Route 165 on a single weekday per direction; this means that shifting from near-side to far-side stops can increase the bus frequency along this route by 7 to 9 trips for every weekday per direction. Furthermore, this does not include the benefits that could be achieved due to the implementation of bus signal priority with extended green, in order to decrease the impact of signalized intersections on the service operational time while improving the service reliability (3).

From a Diab & El-Geneidy 2015 paper:

Just moving stops far-side and removing the right-turn/stop conflict could save up to 8.7% of running times on line 165 in Montréal, equivalent to adding 7-9 trips per weekday per direction for free

We leave so much on the table.

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While many of you are likely yelling “GO PATRIOTS” or “GO SEAHAWKS” I’m yelling “GO HOUSE OVERSIGHT COMMITTEE” and “The rule of law!”

Last week we got more info on what the new high-floor LRT vehicles will look like!

When these 32 new LRVs arrive, Edmonton will finally retire its Siemens U2 fleet, which have been in service since the system opened in the 70s!

Going into politics with the sole aim of removing "live, work and play" from every planning document in existence

I use the wayback machine almost everyday, don’t want to live without it

The Wayback is now so load-bearing we should be protecting it with our actual lives

They definitely should, the reason it’s only at Commonwealth right now is because that is a city owned facility, so no negotiations necessary

I’ve heard there were talks about other major ticketed events, but that would have to be a case by case basis (could definitely be done for Muttart)

I think it’s less about the trains themselves and more about the stations

The SE line is so good for this, I take my bike on it all the time and I see WAY more bikes on the low-floor trains than high-floor

Personally I still prefer high-floor lines, but bike accessibility is definitely a plus for trams