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Originally Posted by bizaro86
I don't disagree with spending the money on transit, (Airport LRT would be the best bang for the buck) but the part I've bolded is incorrect. In fact, it's farcical and completely wrong.
Calgary metro has a population of 1.278 million people. The US metros closest to us in population are Memphis, Oklahoma City, Louisville KY, and Richmond VA.
In 2011, Calgary Transit had 96.2 million passengers. (1)
In 2011 Memphis Transit Authority had just over 10 million passengers (2)
In 2011 Metro Transit (Oklahoma City) carried ~3 million passengers (3)
Transit Authority of River City (Louisville) carries ~15 million passengers (4)
Greater Richmond Transit serves "more than 10 million passengers" (5)
So compared to the closest in size N. American metro areas to Calgary, our transit is used ~10x more often. Maybe you have another way of determining that our transit is in fact appalingly bad for a city of our size?
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Thank you for that. Biggest pet peave of mine is when pushing for civic initiatives, there's a demographic that feels that whatever Vancouver, Toronto, or Montreal has that we don't is automatically something we are 'behind' at and immediately needs rectifying. Sometimes it's a case of cart before the horse.