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Originally Posted by Rathji
I had this same talk with my wife, and I decided that I would be willing to do it, if I had a job that allowed me to park anywhere close to work without being robbed by downtown parking rates.
No way I would do it and still need transit every day.
Ironically enough, when I worked in High River it was 30 mins to my front door, because I was travelling opposite the traffic on Deerfoot. There is no way I can get downtown to my current job in that time.
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That's another reason we like Airdrie... my wife works at 4th Ave and 2nd St SW. She catches the Airdrie Intercity Express at it's last stop before it hops on the Deerfoot and drops her off at 4th Ave and 1st St SW... she walks right into the +15 and she's at her desk in seconds... but if her place of work wasn't within walking distance of 4th & 1st... then it would suck for sure, if she had to use Calgary Transit and pay for that monthly pass as well.
Yea her commute time is a bit long (about 40 minute in the morning and 55 minutes in the evening), but she reads... and again, everything is relative. This commute is still a full 20 minute shorter each way, than her GO Train commute was in the GTA and a monthly pass is $150/month cheaper than it was in the GTA... and I'm always home much earlier than her, that I have dinner on the table when she walks in the door.