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Originally Posted by bizaro86
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)
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Of course it would. If it helps people who don't want to live in 'inner city living' or in high density housing by making it easier for them to live elsewhere, then it solves the problem of the city losing money on infrastructure every time one of these homes is build inside the city. That means that even if we foot a good portion of the bill for getting trains to those communities, we might come out ahead (or maybe just not as far behind). Then the taxes from those communities would go into operation of transit. I don't know anything about the Go Train in GTA, so excuse my ignorance, but has it's implementation not met its desired goals or had any negative side effects?
I am not saying it is a silver bullet, by any means, but in the scope of 30 years down the road, I think the idea and its discussion has lots of merit. Especially if you consider that in 30 years the city could very well have nearly eclipsed one or both of those communities.