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Originally Posted by Rathji
On more of a financing and long term thing, I think there should be involvement from feeder communities. It might make financial sense for places like Airdrie and Okotoks to be involved in our transit future. Many 'leeches', as some people on this board already point out with much disgust, use our transit every day but don't contribute in taxes. If we had a rail solution from these places, then it would encourage growth of those cities and help reduce the spawl problem within Calgary, so even if we took a bit of a hit on the long term deal, it might make more financial sense to do that rather than losing money on every house that is built by financing transportation and utility services to these communities.
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That was one of the big pros of the $3/day parking. One guy at my office lives in Cochrane and parks at the CTrain every morning, and never buys a pass either. At least with the parking he was putting something into the system.
While I'm not opposed to extending to train to the satellite communities on principal, it'll just move the sprawl from the edge of Calgary to the edge of those communities. (see the Go Train in the GTA)