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Originally Posted by FurnaceFace
There is a bus which goes to the airport once in a blue moon from the end of the NE line but it's so infrequent it's not worth the hassle. But there is already transit out to the airport.
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This routing will be changed once Barlow Trail closes. There will be bus service along Centre Street to and from downtown. Frequency is planned to increase as well.
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Originally Posted by FurnaceFace
I would take the train exclusively for all travel I do and I bet a number of citizens would too. We need to get away from the "that'll only work in Europe" mentality. It would work here, and would get used if it were setup. I'd much rather spend even a $10 premium over top of cabbing it.
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That's all well and good, but how often do you travel? I'd guess the average non-airport-employee Calgarian travels to the airport maybe 5-10 times a year. Most people who would use the southeast and north central lines would be doing so in their regular daily commutes, or in other words, hundreds of times a year.
Not to be forgotten are airport employees. However, the numbers just aren't there, and there are other mitigating factors. Airport employees have free or cheap parking and many work irregular (not 9-5) shifts that are conducive to a strong transit ridership base.
Airport LRT service sounds like a nice thing to have, and it would be. However, when huge swaths of Calgary and hundreds of thousands of Calgarians are unserved by LRT for the trips they make daily, airport LRT has to wait. It's a numbers game, and the numbers just aren't there relative to other options.