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Before people take a look at the prioritization pyramid and lose their mind, it is important to realize that it does not represent a war on cars. To the contrary, it is based on the realization that your transportation system cannot almost entirely rely on the private automobile and it is unfair to ask the car to play a role it cannot realistically perform.

Calgary is in a difficult position because it realizes that continually adding road space won't solve its transportation issues and it must invest in other modes of transport but, unfortunately, they were so under-funded they cannot pick up the slack in the mean time. It has to wait until the other modes can play their role and take a larger modal-share before it can spend the money necessary to modify the road network and enable it to plays its still important but smaller role.

In the mean time, it can only afford small fixes that help with the pain. However, these fixes (e.g. light synchronization) cannot work against measures that attempt to improve the efficiency, effectiveness and viability of other modes that are in desperate need of attention.