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Originally Posted by 4X4
The exact two places the respective residents never venture.
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It's probably quite true in many respects, despite the "live west, work east" overall trend in Calgary.
It will be interesting to see just how empty reverse-peak-direction trains will be during rush hours, especially westbound.
I don't think the south and northwest areas of the city have a uniquely strong a synergy either (although there is some there to be sure). The northwest has the academic/research corridor with SAIT and the U of C as well as the intermittently huge-volume trip generator with McMahon Stadium. The south line has the MacLeod Trail retail/employment corridor, the region's highest-volume shopping centre, another sizeable shopping centre, another intermittently high-volume trip generator (and more frequent than McMahon too) in the Saddledome/Stampede grounds. The Glenmore/Macleod node is also the geographic centre of the city, which says a lot too.
In contrast the west line serves an almost entirely and predominantly affluent residential catchment area save for a small academic cluster at 69th Street, a dying small shopping centre in Westbrook and by proxy MRU. The west line should have respectable peak hour, peak direction ridership but off peak ridership will be pretty low.