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New Bow Trail pedestrian bridge gets bike lanes. On one side at least
The nice new pedestrian bridge over Bow Trail, which was constructed as part of the LRT expansion last year, finally has a new bike lane connecting to it. Sort of. I took the lane the other day, and...
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Why the ring road will make traffic worse, and more expert insight on...
Last month, after a report that claimed traffic congestion in Calgary may not be as bad as we think it is, Herald readers offered dozens of ideas about how to fix the problem. I combed through the...
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Sunday in the City: Breaking the car-owning habit with car2go
My name is Melissa and feel like a hypocrite. I recycle religiously, buy my produce from farmer’s markets, am conscious of how much water and electricity I consume, don’t use plastic bags and only use...
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West LRT open by December? By transit’s track record…
Fresh off the successful on-time* opening of the northeast LRT extension, city officials have offered the confident-yet-cautious prediction that the CTrain’s west leg could open this December as...
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Traffic noise affects health more than you may think
If you live in or around a city, you’ve likely conditioned yourself to only grudgingly notice the noise coming from the roads around you. But a new study of road traffic noise published in next month’s...
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Is this the end of car culture, or will vehicles roar back with the economy?
Is the Car Dead? The Globe and Mail’s Report on Business magazine recently published a story asking that question. It was the latest piece to examine the trend among young people away from cars, a...
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Route Ahead’s “logical progression”
Here is that “logical progression” for Calgary Transit expansions we reported in Wednesday’s Herald: (if the text in graphic is too small, right click on it and “view image.” Hat tip to Transit Camp’s...
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Speeding: Alberta’s deadly addiction
A proposal to get tough on extreme speeders by seizing their vehicles at roadside is, at the same time, too much and not enough. Too much, in that taking such drastic measures without a conviction is a...
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Alberta bad driving habits to impact insurance
A recent TD Insurance survey included some interesting data on the habits for Alberta drivers. And you know that’s not going to be good news when it comes to insurance. The survey revealed Albertans...
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Startup of the Week – FastCab
It’s Saturday night. You’re downtown Calgary with a group of friends and you just can’t find a taxi. What do you do? I use FastCab. FastCab is a smartphone application that connects passengers directly...
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‘Slugging’ would let commuters hitchhike to work to alleviate traffic...
Would you hitch a ride to work with a stranger? (Arlen Redekop/Province) Calgary’s chief city planner has floated a rather unorthodox solution for alleviating the morning traffic rush. Rollin Stanley...
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Solicitor General Jonathan Denis pulls in his horns on aboriginal protesters
Solicitor General Jonathan Denis may have been, in his words, p—-d off, about aboriginal protesters blocking Alberta highways, but he appears to have decided to leave policing to the experts — the...
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Where not to let the meter run out: A guide to Calgary’s most ticketed...
In his parking patrol uniform and black cowboy hat, Dwayne Kunsman strikes fear into the hearts of motorists as he walks his beat near a downtown shopping centre. On a cold, spring morning the veteran...
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Curbing boors on the bus: Transit courtesy campaigns around the globe
Calgary Transit’s new etiquette campaign is only the latest effort by a transit agency to instill good manners in riders on buses and trains. Other transit authorities have been at it for a long time....
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One seemingly easy way to reduce a major CTrain annoyance
This is how it’s supposed to work: when a CTrain pulls up to the platform, those getting on board line up to the side of the doors so that those getting off the train can walk directly out. But some of...
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Parking: How does the city decide where to increase prices?
In a bid to manage the city’s tight supply of on-street parking, Calgary is taking a cue from San Francisco with new demand-based parking prices. As my colleague Reid Southwick explains in this story,...
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Old-school snow removal, Calgary style
The city is planning to spend $6.7M to haul away the huge accumulation of snow in residential areas, much to the relief of Calgarians weary of the bone-jarring rides down the streets in their...
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Shaming Calgary’s bad drivers with a dash cam and YouTube
Somewhere in his daily commute across Calgary, Jan Monson stopped grumbling about bad drivers and started recording them with a dash cam and posting their antics on YouTube. He’s not alone. You could...
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Startup of the Week – Jump On Flyaways
There are several charter airlines in Alberta, ranging from corporate jets to Boeing 737s, that move oilfield workers from Calgary and Edmonton to Fort McMurray and back from Monday to Thursday;...
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More cities are lowering speed limits, but does it actually make roads safer?
After the 12-year-old boy in her neighbourhood was killed by a sport-utility vehicle, Jodi Morel started to do the math. And tragic mathematics it was. As a member of the traffic committee in her...
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