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Originally Posted by CroFlames
May as well not build anything then right? Cost.
Every major city does elevated or below grade. Is Calgary one of the poorest cities in North America? That would be need to me.
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I was curious about this, so I took a look online. Here is a listing of all the heavy rail/rapid transit systems in North America (rapid transit defined as transit with exclusive right-of-way and are grade separated):
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_o...s_by_ridership
The one thing I notice about this list? All the cities are much more "major" than Calgary. We are talking about populations mostly between 3 and 10 million, as opposed to our 1.2 million here. We cannot compare systems that serve 3 to 10 times as many people as ours, most of which have been developing for decades longer than us.