Calgary can't become a modern city if we don't try to make it one.
Everyone complains that "you need a car in calgary" and while thats true right now for a large number of people in the suburbs, its also due to the lack of any feasible or efficient alternative. If the olympics can get us that alternative built and it's not just more ####ty bike lanes then I bet you we will see more people utilizing transit.
Its chicken and egg and really you can't get people using alternative means of transportation without having them in place.
Would I love a YYC to Banff train? yes, in fact it already exists with rocky mountaineer, but would it be even better if people could take a train all the way from the airport to banff??? imagine the tourism boost to the area that would create...
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