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Originally Posted by Fuzz
I feel like your goal posts are caught in a tornado.
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My goalposts are firmly set as there is no case for rail to make sense as a public investment from Calgary to Banff.
There is no case for spending public money on rail becuase of transportation requirements that exist when you get to the destination so the last mile becomes a significant hurdle. (The last mile in this case being more like 100 miles given the tourist sites that people want to see)
If you do solve the last mile problem a perfectly suitable alternative of busing exists and is more flexible once at the spread out destination.
So given the above when allocating 300 million of public capital plus xx million for trains and stations you need to show that you are better than the alternative technology. If we want to be green just spend some of that capital on battery powered buses.
Further to this at a $30 round trip this only makes sense for people who don't have vehicles or are going alone. As soon as you add in a second person it's cheaper to drive. So this is for airport visitors and those without cars. So how many airport visitors who aren't renting cars and aren't on a Brewster bus tour are there out of the 4 million visitors to Banff each year?
There is no goalpost moving here. It's a bad idea