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Originally Posted by frinkprof
All but the very newest communities in Calgary have bus service, and the City of Calgary requires all residences to be a maximum of 400 meters from a bus stop. The communities that don't have service (which are usually brand new, numbering in the low hundreds of residents) will get service when their community grows a bit.
As for use or underuse, it really depends on which route, and what time of day. There's different types of routes: mainline (examples 2, 3, 20), express (examples 133, 179, 116), feeder (examples 16, 22, 55), special shuttle (examples 502, 506), BRT (301, 302, 305), and community shuttle (examples 429, 440, 456).
I believe what you're asking about are feeder routes or community shuttles. Some are actually quite popular while others barely see any use.
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Yup I was asking about community shuttles like 456 and 453 out west. It seemed to me that before the $3 park and ride charge, people would just race their cars out there before 7am, park for free and then take the bus. Since most people taking the bus have bus passes anyways, a $3 park and ride charge would have lessened the 'race' to park for free and people would use community shuttles that takes them to the same park and ride anyways and save the $3 and the hassle of finding a parking spot.
This is what I assumed would have happened, am I way off base?