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Originally Posted by 300spartans
Calgarians love their cars and we want lots of roads for them. But look at all that congestion! Just build more and bigger roads! Sadly, this is the fallacy of modernistic rationalism, let's build more roads to solve the problem even though there are countless studies that show that INCREASING THE AMOUNT OF ROADS WILL INCREASE THE AMOUNT OF USERS. Your roads will be congested again in a few years. What are you going to do then? The engineers and politicians will say BUILD MORE ROADS OF COURSE! Now I love cars, I'm definetly not anti-car, but I question the wisdom of addressing transportation and traffic issues by simply addressing one area. Any solution that tries to fix our transportation issues has to be holistic. Don't just focus on roads, focus on public transit as well. The LRT system is a GREAT thing but it could be ALOT better. All those earlier garden suburbs were serviced by amazing rail links, why cant we do that?
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Unless transit is built, roads will continue to be needed. My brother used to take the express bus from my house in Coventry. Unfortunately, the hours for it meant that he would usually just catch the last bus. If he missed it (slept in an extra 5 minutes), he'd have to wait for a huge amount of time and then spend another huge amount of time on a regular bus, or drive himself. If there was LRT, or more express busses, he'd still be using them.
It's a constant trade-off. Time is becoming more and more valueable as our city becomes more and more busy. The transit has to be built, not just planned... and for all parts of the city, not just to and from downtown... and it doesn't seem like it'll come any time soon.