In a city the size of Calgary, or Canada in general, we are so sparsely populated.
If I want to travel from one suburb to another in different city quadrants, personal transport is at least 2-3 times quicker than transit. Even with improved transit, I can't see myself ever wanting to wait around for the bus/train. I don't want to go to Banff for a weekend and be bound by somebody else's schedule.
It seems like a lot of these articles think the New York model applies to every city in the world. We don't even have passenger train to Edmonton.
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