I agree Rhettzky. It's a failure in city planning to be honest.
All too often cars dominate planning divisions because of path dependency and the advocacy of powerful groups in city hall. For example, city engineering has the highest budget of any department and the most powerful union. They use this influence to divert most of the municipal money into road maintenance feeding the cycle into itself.
It takes a brave city politician to re-orient planning priorities away from the automobile or an electorate that vocal and strong enough to make more bikeways in urban commuter zones. Sadly Calgary lacks both of these ingredients.
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