Calgary Transit
a collection of rants by @transittylo and others with ideas for our awkward but loveable transit system here in #yyc — submissions welcome!
3 Steps to Successful Transit-Oriented Development
Cities looking to reduce their carbon footprint need to look closely at various cities’ Transit-Orientated Development (TOD) plans — and…where they’re already proving their worth. ¶ The emerging and mature great cities of our times have one thing in common: high-density development along transit corridors. A few examples include Curitiba, which has integrated Bus Rapid Transit corridors; the Melbourne 2030 city plan, which seeks to approve the relationship between transport and land use; Calgary’s TOD neighborhood, called The Bridges, in the community of Bridgeland-Riverside, which is inspiring similar forthcoming developments…
Making of CitiesSep 15, 2015
I was in the downtown core of Calgary, Alberta for a few hours this monday.
The future is now.There’s this one street — I think it’s 8 Ave — where no cars were allowed. Instead, the road was paved a brown brick, park benches dotted the sides, food trucks stood where parked cars used to stand, and people just…walked around. It worked out. ¶ The future is now. ¶ Back home, in the New England suburbs, I’m a half-hour walk (or a five-minute drive) from anything I would need to buy — groceries, office supplies, etc.
Ajey PandeyAug 27, 2015
Quit playing games with my hope, Calgary Transit
Calgary Transit and his holiness Nenshi are spinning this whole 4 car C-Train story to make it sound like four car trains are now everwhere…in the city. In fact, they’ve been running one-4 car train for over a month now. ¶ Today’s press event is just to announce that they’re adding a SECOND 4-car train to the tracks. It’s progress, sure, but it’s hardly a wide-spread launch of a 33% increase in our train capacity. ¶ It’s another shameless attempt at treating Calgary Transit users like mushrooms — feeding us shit and hoping we believe it.
Andy TyloNov 13, 2015