TRANSPORTATION
- City of Edmonton promising to take “local experience” into account for crosswalk decisions [Metro Edmonton]
- Edmonton councillors move to act on traffic calming [Metro Edmonton]
- Edmonton looking to leverage data to help commuters plot their route [Metro Edmonton]
- Biggest change to Edmonton’s downtown transit system in 20 years starts Sunday [Edmonton Journal]
- NAIT LRT project plagued by delays with no end in sight [Edmonton Journal]
- City looking for spare parts for non-operational Metro Line LRT [Metro Edmonton]
- Edmonton LRT entrance could be sealed, costing $210,000 [Metro Edmonton]
- Staples: Councillors push hard to scrape away bike lane mistake [Edmonton Journal]
- Coun. Michael Walters wants two more bike lanes eliminated [Edmonton Journal]
HOUSING AND DEVELOPMENT
- Economists question foreign investment concerns in Canadian housing [Edmonton Journal]
- The high cost of low density [Pembina Institute]
- U.S. short sellers betting on Canadian housing crash: ‘An accident waiting to happen’ [Edmonton Journal]
- Old Strathcona merchants urged to get their signs in line [Edmonton Journal]
OTHER LOCAL NEWS
- Edmonton youth homelessness spikes as overall homelessness falls: report [Metro News]
- Edmonton will shuffle ward boundaries slightly [Edmonton Journal]
- Edmonton bans cosmetic use of herbicides on city land — with exceptions [Edmonton Journal]
- Naheed Nenshi, Don Iveson, pleased with talks with Rachel Notley [CBC Edmonton]
- Five new Edmonton school names to honour city pioneers, leaders [Edmonton Journal]
- Architecture bike ride coming to Edmonton [Metro Edmonton]
- Jerome the Gnome builds home in Mill Creek Ravine [CBC Edmonton]
- Five questions with Edmonton’s new poet laureate Pierrette Requier [Metro News]
MISCELLANY
- Pope to Urban Planners: Build Better Cities [Next City]
- Equitable Placemaking: Not the End, but the Means [Project for Public Spaces]
- London ‘Stinkmap’ Could Change Urban Planning [Wired]
- Alberta boosts carbon tax to $20 a tonne starting in 2016 as part of climate change plan [Financial Post]
- Chinese envoy says lack of oversight behind Vancouver’s house-price crisis [Globe and Mail]
- ‘Everyone got scared of the W-word': Shared street where pedestrians and cyclists rule pitched for Inglewood laneway [Calgary Herald]
- Babin: 5 things to learn from North America’s (second) most bike-friendly city [Calgary Herald]
- Pedal parking problems: Stampede, city significantly increasing bike racks [Calgary Herald]
- Five ways Calgary council will decide if the cycle track stays [Metro Calgary]
- Downtown bike network $1.3 million under budget as final lanes open [Calgary Herald]
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