I've been looking over the West LRT web site tonight and had a few random thoughts...
Do you think the line will ever be extended to 85th Street? I thought the City had bought land there for subsidized housing, plus there is a big shopping complex going up at that intersection.
The area around the 69th station is going to be changed dramatically with all of the projects going on there... the new C-Train station, the new high school, the new Ambrose university college, the WestSide Rec expansion, and the various commercial developments. Between Ambrose, the new high school, and Rundle college, there will now be 3000 students in the immediate area during the daytime.
I'd have to nominate the "West 17th Lofts" project right across the street from there as one of the worst conceived projects of the boom. Luxury $1m+ urban loft townhomes on the fringe of suburbia? They've been trying to sell them for over 3 years and they still haven't sold out.
http://www.west17lofts.com/