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Originally Posted by Mr.Coffee
Doesn't the train commute like 200,000+ people a day? Not bad for a system that doesn't cover large swaths of the city.
When I stand on the platform or get on the train, particularly during rush hour which is what you're talking about, the thing is quite full a lot of the time.
I think people use the train. Quite a lot of people.
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I actually have no idea to be honest, other than the constant complaints we here from our mayors over the years that Calgarian's don't give up our cars for our daily commute, which is the reason DT parking in this city is the 2nd most expensive in NA to New York. Supply and Demand due to the volume of vehicles allows parking to be so expensive, because we use it so much.
But I really have no true idea how well it's used and what the numbers are, or if they are good for a city of this size.
I would suggest however, that using how packed the train is in the morning would not be a good indicator of usage. Transit will obviously only schedule enough trains to move the masses they have, it's only good business sense to ensure the trains are "packed" as you put it, costs them much less than running say two trains at around the same time at half capacity. But that's the true test, how many trains should a city of this size have running during rush our versus what we have if transit is being embraced? I don't know.