03-03-2025, 10:53 AM
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#5061
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Aug 2004
Location: Calgary
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Cappy
Marda Loop lacks a good public transit connection. The vast majority of people in Marda Loop work downtown and are wealthy so they drive. Traffic their is an issue.
I would love to see a LRT/Tram connect Marda to 17th.
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Which is kind of funny in a historical context. Marda Loop received its name from the streetcar track loop back in the day (the #7 line).
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03-03-2025, 11:08 AM
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#5062
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Mar 2015
Location: Pickle Jar Lake
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Originally Posted by Mazrim
The CBC article says Chu isn't running?
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Interesting, I hadn't heard that until now. Maybe the CBC is using shear force of will to make it happen.
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03-03-2025, 11:14 AM
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#5063
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Sep 2008
Location: Calgary
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Cappy
Marda Loop lacks a good public transit connection. The vast majority of people in Marda Loop work downtown and are wealthy so they drive. Traffic their is an issue.
I would love to see a LRT/Tram connect Marda to 17th.
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Is it that bad though? A single bus (#22), about 20 minutes to the heart of downtown, no connections. Max Yellow gets you to other places too.
Edit: 66 is even faster once you get to the stop along Crowchild.
Of course a train/tram would be great (even if a pipe dream), but "wealthy Marda Loopers" probably wouldn't take it anyway.
Last edited by Jimmy Stang; 03-03-2025 at 11:17 AM.
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03-03-2025, 01:30 PM
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#5064
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CP Gamemaster
Join Date: Feb 2010
Location: The Gary
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Fuzz
Interesting, I hadn't heard that until now. Maybe the CBC is using shear force of will to make it happen.
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Scott Dippel is a well known City Hall reporter so I have to assume it's legit.
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03-03-2025, 02:03 PM
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#5065
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#1 Goaltender
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Jimmy Stang
Is it that bad though? A single bus (#22), about 20 minutes to the heart of downtown, no connections. Max Yellow gets you to other places too.
Edit: 66 is even faster once you get to the stop along Crowchild.
Of course a train/tram would be great (even if a pipe dream), but "wealthy Marda Loopers" probably wouldn't take it anyway.
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i know. it just seems so far removed from the likes of Mission, Beltline, Kensington, and Bridgeland.
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03-03-2025, 02:39 PM
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#5066
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Sep 2008
Location: Calgary
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Cappy
i know. it just seems so far removed from the likes of Mission, Beltline, Kensington, and Bridgeland.
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It is a bit farther out, for sure. The others that you mention are all a reasonable walk to downtown as well, whereas Marda Loop would be do-able on foot, but that's quite the hike. And hilly.
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03-03-2025, 02:39 PM
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#5067
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tromboner
Join Date: Mar 2006
Location: where the lattes are
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Farkas talking about 3 million population in 10 years... wtf?
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03-03-2025, 02:44 PM
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#5068
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Mar 2015
Location: Pickle Jar Lake
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Mazrim
Scott Dippel is a well known City Hall reporter so I have to assume it's legit.
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I've messaged him for clarification. Perhaps he was just partaking in some wishful thinking.
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03-03-2025, 02:50 PM
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#5069
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Mar 2007
Location: Income Tax Central
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Quote:
Originally Posted by SebC
Farkas talking about 3 million population in 10 years... wtf?
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Oh my God! We've got too many people now! Look, I get it, we have few natural barriers to expansion but at some point this gets nuts.
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03-03-2025, 02:57 PM
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#5070
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Mar 2015
Location: Pickle Jar Lake
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I dunno, looks like plenty of room for them in Lake Bonavista when they fill it in, and perhaps some condos at Glenmore Landing.
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03-03-2025, 02:59 PM
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#5071
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Sep 2008
Location: Calgary
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Fuzz
I dunno, looks like plenty of room for them in Lake Bonavista when they fill it in, and perhaps some condos at Glenmore Landing.
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(Slava's ears begin to ring)
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03-03-2025, 03:06 PM
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#5072
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Dec 2006
Location: Calgary, Alberta
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Jimmy Stang
(Slava's ears begin to ring)
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We're in the clear now, for like 6 months until they take another run at it with a new council? I'm fine with Lake Bonavista though. Can't we just fill in that slough and build some houses and roads there? It would help control the mosquito population and we could eliminate a bunch of leeches all at the same time.
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03-03-2025, 03:35 PM
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#5073
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Loves Teh Chat!
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It would take an almost 8% growth rate to get to 3M in 10 years ....that's a crazy high number from Farkas.
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03-03-2025, 04:46 PM
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#5074
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Franchise Player
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Originally Posted by Torture
It would take an almost 8% growth rate to get to 3M in 10 years ....that's a crazy high number from Farkas.
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Yeah. I think 3MM is a near certainty but probably 20-25 years not 10. Maybe a bit faster if we annex Airdrie.
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03-03-2025, 05:32 PM
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#5075
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Franchise Player
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Quote:
Originally Posted by SebC
Farkas talking about 3 million population in 10 years... wtf?
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Locke
Oh my God! We've got too many people now! Look, I get it, we have few natural barriers to expansion but at some point this gets nuts.
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According to the Liberal party, you're all disgusting unCanadian racists. You'll take your millions of low skill low wage immigrants so they can mark the 100 million on their bingo card and you'll ####ing like it too.
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03-03-2025, 05:46 PM
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#5076
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Franchise Player
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Cappy
Marda Loop lacks a good public transit connection. The vast majority of people in Marda Loop work downtown and are wealthy so they drive. Traffic their is an issue.
I would love to see a LRT/Tram connect Marda to 17th.
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Considering the increase crime that comes with a free access to your neighborhood via the LRT, they probably don't want that at all.
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03-03-2025, 11:43 PM
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#5077
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Franchise Player
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Originally Posted by chemgear
Considering the increase crime that comes with a free access to your neighborhood via the LRT, they probably don't want that at all.
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At times you really strike me as someone who lives life in fear that something terrible is going to happen to you if you go outside. I’m hopeful that’s not actually the case but man you really seem to obsess on crime reporting and related worse case scenario doom and gloom predictions.
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03-04-2025, 01:30 PM
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#5078
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Sep 2008
Location: Calgary
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Quote:
Originally Posted by chemgear
Considering the increase crime that comes with a free access to your neighborhood via the LRT, they probably don't want that at all.
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You sound like the people on my community Facebook page.
Surveillance cameras show a car pulling up, the passenger gets out and attempts to steal a car.
"We didn't have this problem before the c-train."
Or when someone had an entire freezer and the meat within it stolen from their garage.
The LRT is blamed because... clearly it was.... walked back to the train station?
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03-04-2025, 02:10 PM
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#5079
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First Line Centre
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The residents probably more would dread the 786 years of building the tram the city’s top notch project managers would take.
What did they even do on 33rd that took 2 years? Some sidewalks look minimally nicer.
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03-04-2025, 02:20 PM
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#5080
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Franchise Player
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Fuzz
I dunno, looks like plenty of room for them in Lake Bonavista when they fill it in, and perhaps some condos at Glenmore Landing.
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If we really want to hurt the Americans we should give them water from Lake Bonavista.
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