I wanna say “duh”, but Canada really does appear way behind on this so maybe it is still a revelation for some?

I mean, not really, even here in Alberta Calgary and Edmonton have some rather impressive TOD (Transit Oriented Development) projects.

The Bonnie Doon redevelopment in Edmonton along the Valley Line LRT, and Calgary’s long-term plans for the new Green Line for the Ctrain are great examples.

Don’t let businesses own residential property and limit citizens to 3 residences max. The one ly people who will complain are the lazy entitled wealthy.

These are indeed good examples.

Perhaps over the last 50 years, there are parts of Asia that build whole neighbourhoods with public transit in mind, and mixed-use zoning. They don’t have nearly the same learning curve to conquer as Alberta does…and they almost certainly don’t take +10 years to figure out how a line is supposed to interact with traffic lights.

I suppose “transit oriented development” are critical baby steps…but to some these are really small baby steps.

Highly anticipated Metro LRT line opens to public

After nearly two years of delays and controversy, Edmonton’s Metro LRT line opened its doors to riders on Sunday.

CTVNews (www.ctvnews.ca)

A recent episode of Tech Won’t Save Us about cars made a nice point about this stuff:

if you build near transit and remove rules around minimum levels for parking spots, you can lower the cost of development significantly, since you either need less underground parking, or less land for parking lots.

Cars make housing less affordable!