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Transit in Calgary is a bit of a disaster if you ask me. It's far easier to move around the sprawl that is Vancouver and surrounding suburbs.
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By Transit I guess you mean both Bus and Train service. That is a bit of an unfair argument since Calgary is physically one single municipality the size of NYC and urban sprawl is worse here. Vancouver also gets little or no snow and rarely if ever gets to temperatures of minus 30 or worse. I bet auto insurance is cheaper there since they don't have any snow related accidents.
Vancouver trains don't have a driver. It is a different system. I'd like to know the number of passengers who take the Skytrain from within the municipality of Vancouver to downtown Vancouver as a daily commute both ways and then compare that to number who do so in the municipality of Calgary.
Bus Service is different in Vancouver then in Calgary. Vancouver has a law where you must yield to busses pulling out of stops or pay a fine if you're caught. Busses in Calgary are cut off by everyone from the milkman to the cyclist to semi trucks to little smart cars. How are they supposed to keep on time? The municipality of Calgary also added 300,000+ people since 1992 with little no increase in basic transportation infrastructure and still Calgary is getting 100 new people a day on average.