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Originally Posted by Bunk
Okotoks and Airdrie are not even close to being contiguous with the City of Calgary - they are small satellites of a large central municipality. Vancouver is a very different region whereby Surrey is contiguous and has a population not that far below the central municipality of Vancouver.
Skytrain is a good system, no question. Calgary's is quite good too though - we achieve better per capita ridership.
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Actually, the corridor north of the city is getting very close. It's only about 3KM from the north edge of the new industrial area to CrossIron Mills, and then less than 2KM from the north edge of the shopping centre to Airdrie. And all three municipalities are gobbling up space along Highway 2 rapidly.
The problem, of course, is what frinkprof notes - the relative lack of population. I doubt very much that the cost of another ~20 km of rail for three stations - CrossIron, South Airdrie, North Airdrie - would be justified by ridership.
And Okotoks makes no sense whatsoever, with a longer distance and 1/3 the population.
Oh, and I think that is now the second time Trudeau has announced a funding commitment that Harper had already committed to. Gotta love political PR.