The cost benefit ratio for commuter rail would be awful. How many people would ride? You maybe could get one train every half an hour at the most. It would only go to downtown, and thus would serve only poeple in those communities that are going downtown, not really anyone else.
Freight trains could cause regular delays for the passenger trains, which would push ridership off to something that is more predictable. What would ridership from either Airdrie or Cochrane be, total? Probably only around 1000.
It's much more cost effective to save the hundreds of millions of dollars it would likely cost and put that towards the green line LRT, where you would have 100,000 riders a day.
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