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Originally Posted by Ozy_Flame
Be realistic. You know exactly what he's talking about. Roads, fire, police, ambulance services, recycling, garbage pickup, there are alot of things. The further they have to drive out, the more expensive it gets, and the less sense it makes for people who live in high-density areas, such as downtown.
I live in a condo building; everybody's garbage gets picked up from one location. I'm not a fan of paying to drive huge, gas consuming trucks around for hundreds of kilometers just so everyone can have their big houses in the 'burbs.
I think this has been beaten to death, and I'm just going to get hammered on this all over again.
My point - Calgary can be made more liveable by densifying.
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In Calgary's business district (over 70 national and international head offices), over 145,000 Calgarians work downtown.
Employed Calgarians as of May 2008 - 695,000
20% of the workforce is downtown, yet we should all live there in high rise buildings?
We should pay more because we all drive downtown or all take the train to work?
The trucks drive a lot less distance to pick up my garbage than they do yours.
I am moving to a townhouse complex in the NW soon, 40 residences, 4 garbage bins, all closer to the dump and trucks than downtown. My water comes from Bearspaw. Not downtown.
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The two sources for Calgary's drinking water are both surface sources. The Bow River supplies the Bearspaw Water Treatment Plant and the Elbow River flows into the Glenmore Reservoir, which is the source of water for the Glenmore Water Treatment Plant. The Bearspaw Plant primarily supplies water to the north sector of the city, while the Glenmore plant supplies the south. However, the water supply from the two plants is interconnected through large diameter transmission mains to ensure a reliable supply to all times.
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I really am confused. I've been in an ambulance and paid for it. It took me from a hockey rink to the foothills hospital. How does that have any bearing on where I or you live?
Actually I'm probably a shorter drive to the footihills than downtown apartment towers.
There is a fire station pretty close to me. How is that more expensive?