Living in the city with the most effective and efficient (though not green) transit system in the world, I cringe when I think about having to take the C-train. The biggest bottleneck in the system is the fact that the train has to yeild to pedestrian and normal commuter traffic. If taking the train was faster to work/home than driving, you'd start to see people use it - rather simple really. Underground or a raised system downtown would have been a better system.
The other thing they should take a look at is building parallel track so that during rush hours they could put express trains on the routes that would only stop at a few of the stations - hence decreasing the actual time spent in a commute.
The system is going to be hard to work as Calgary gets larger, I fear. The whole green aspect, however, is really nice though.
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