Tuesday, January 24, 2012

Public Input Wanted for Crowchild Trail

Head on over to http://calgary.ca/crowchild to have your say heard in the debate whether we should add an HOV lane to Crowchild, ie: busses and carpoolers only. I've seen and used these lanes with great success in other cities, and it would be a great addition to Calgary's infastructure. Northbound Crowchild makes more sense to me, feeding the new lane onto 9th avenue and into downtown. Southbound, however, thanks to the new Glenmore flyover, is rarely plugged with traffic, and I doubt that any benefit would be gained in the immediate future.

Tuesday, January 17, 2012

Cool ass link!

A traffic simulator in Java - check it out here: http://www.mtreiber.de/MicroApplet

Also make sure to check out this AMA on reddit from a Traffic Engineer: http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/okt3j/iama_traffic_engineer_ama/