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Originally Posted by #-3
Its interesting to me that people always say this about Calgary Transit.
I personally feel that transit needs to continue to grow, be made easier to use, more direct, and has to become an early priority in new communities rather than an after thought much like roads are now.
But all of that being said I have often heard that Calgary has a vary high per capita transit use for North American, and is one of the fastest growing next works (which is probably more about keeping up with population growth, than improving the system on an individual basis).
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Calgary's transit is used so much for a few reasons:
-big business downtown. Almost all of the head offices are concentrated downtown. We've got a huge population that works downtown M-F
-parking is unaffordable downtown. Second highest rates in N America after NYC
People take the c train/bus because they can't afford to park downtown, there aren't enough parking spaces.
Take a look at the future growth of the city and almost all of it is concentrated in 2 areas. The deep SE and the far north central. Calgary needs that NCSE lrt line built asap along with the 8th ave underground subway to aleviate the backup on 7th ave.
These projects are going to cost billions.