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Originally Posted by Maccalus
The SE Line doesn't have as large of a residential catchment, but it serves 2 large employment hubs (quarry park and seton) and would help to serve to offload the overloaded south line. Plus, I might use it on the 2-5 days a year I go downtown.  |
Like, say, building the 8th Avenue subway would?
Also, the combination of employment from Seton/Quarry Park is very small when compared to downtown. For example, it's estimated that Quarry Park may
eventually employ
up to 15,000. More than 10x as many people work downtown already, a number that is also going up.
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgar...arry-park.html
Even the airport has over 14,000 employees working onsite right now, and we're always hearing how only the employees would use an airport spur. Which is, imo, total BS, plenty of the 12 million+ passengers every year would take the train if it was available.
http://www.yyc.com/en-us/careers/cal...vironment.aspx
So, in conclusion, the priority should be something like 8th Avenue subway, NC LRT, airport spur, and then SE LRT.