TRANSPORTATION

• Edmonton’s Metro Line to start operating at slower speeds Sept. 6 [Edmonton Journal]
• Simons: City trains its sights on opening Metro LRT line Sept. 6, but vision seems blurry [Edmonton Journal]
• Edmonton pressures province for park-and-ride land transfers [Edmonton Journal]
• Smith: Cameras are sadly an essential tool for cycling safety for many [Metro Edmonton]
• Edmonton should look at raising age for free child transit rides, mayor says [Edmonton Journal]
• Queen Alexandra residents get chance to redesign 106th Street [Edmonton Journal]
• Edmonton has ‘ignored human toll’ of Whyte Avenue collisions for too long: group [Metro Edmonton]
• Edmonton group taking pre-emptive measures to redesign roadways for bikes, pedestrians [Metro Edmonton]
• Edmonton to build dedicated carshare parking as market heats up [Metro Edmonton]
• Car share companies to get downtown parking stalls [Edmonton Sun]
• Uber makes suggestions for Edmonton’s pending regulations [Metro Edmonton]
• Vast majority of city road projects on schedule, budget [Metro Edmonton]

URBAN DEVELOPMENT

• New wave of renters challenges stereotypes [Edmonton Journal]
• City, communities working on collaborative infill development process [Edmonton Journal]
• Katz group to pay for new road cutting through site of future Rogers Place arena [Metro Edmonton]
• Edmonton breaks ground on ‘once-in-a-lifetime’ Blatchford development [CBC Edmonton]
• Mayor Don Iveson optimisitic on Blatchford despite economy [Metro Edmonton]
• Construction starts for Edmonton downtown airport redevelopment [Edmonton Journal]
• Tait: Lawyer floating canal idea for Edmonton [Edmonton Sun]
• Demand for downtown offices hit by falling oil prices [Edmonton Journal]

ARTS and CULTURE

• Simons: Green onion cakes are my official taste of Edmonton’s summer [Edmonton Journal]
• Artists hope to show both sides of Edmonton’s notorious York Hotel [Edmonton Journal]
• Death Spoke: a punk bike club building community [VUE Weekly]
• Edmonton Folk Fest: How Did We Get Here? [Edmonton City as Museum Project]
• Downtown Edmonton parkade gets colourful boost from local artist [Edmonton Journal]
• Edmonton considers ringing in the New Year a few hours earlier [Metro Edmonton]
• Simons: Fifty-per-cent increase in policing costs squeezes Edmonton festivals [Edmonton Journal]
• Edmonton’s Rostizado on list of Canada’s best new restaurants [Metro Edmonton]
• Big E in Churchill Square draws opinions from A to Z [CBC Edmonton]

OTHER LOCAL NEWS

• EVENT: Park(ing) Day 2015 on September 18 [The Drawing Room]
• EVENT: What Comes After Oil? August 21 at the AGA [Petro Futures]
• Coming up at City Council: August 17-21, 2015 [Mastermaq.ca]
• Petition to save Edmonton trees gains support [Metro Edmonton]
• Edmonton’s North Saskatchewan River hitting new lows for water levels [Metro Edmonton]
• Built With Logs [Edmonton City as Museum Project]
• Edmonton homeless shelters need water donations [Metro Edmonton]
• Edmonton ‘slumlord’ has long criminal history, including drugs, violence [CBC Edmonton]
• Edmonton land trust wants more backyard bee hotels [CBC Edmonton]
• Paramount Theatre becomes home to Deadmonton House [CBC Edmonton]

MISCELLANY

• Lambert: Whether you’re on two, four or no wheels, let’s get along [Calgary Herald]
• Closed Ontario schools may be transformed into ‘community hubs’ [Globe and Mail]
• Playgrounds for senior citizens? Genius idea [Upworthy]
• Calgary’s St. Patrick’s Island Park: The Good, The Bad, The Nice To Have [Everyday Tourist]
• Calgary adding rain gardens to protect city waterways [Metro News]
• The concrete beauty of brutalist architecture – in pictures [The Guardian]