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Originally Posted by bizaro86
You have the cause and effect backwards. Parking here is expensive because the city restricts its supply to force people to use transit.
Also, our transit is ridiculously good for a city of our size. I posted the following in the "Give back our $52 million" thread to a similar comment.
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I think we are looking at this the wrong way (I have no issues with our transit system). But comparing cities of similar size and transit usage means nothing if the scope of those transit or LRT systems are not as robust as ours, because as you point out the usage will be impacted by this.
If just looking at the problem at hand, should the LRT be expanded to the Airport, we only need to understand a few things:
- What percentage of our population uses LRT as their prefered transportation for traveling to work and evennings out etc...
- How does that compare to other cities that have managed to get good use out of their airport train system?
I don't know the answers, but I'm guessing we have a lot less of our population using LRT for these things then many of the cities quoted as getting good use from an airport line. Doesn't really matter what the reason why is (we love cars, LRT isn't convenient enough yet, something else), that's what would speak to the viability of expanding the train to the airport.