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Originally Posted by GioforPM
You don't need a car for Calgary if you're a tourist, especially for Stampede. And for normal citizens, the cost and time savings of the train would be worth it for me. Calgary has plenty of business flyers who have to leave downtown in a cab or Uber, worry about traffic on the Deerfoot and their flight time, and pay $50 one way. Or else they have to park at the Park and Jet.
You need a car in Vancouver every much as in Calgary, unless you are sticking to downtown, where no one actually lives.
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How many people fly into Calgary, stay for 3-7 days of Stampede, and fly back out?
Not many. Almost everyone visits Banff...many visit Jasper and then out of Edmonton or through to Vancouver and out from there...most likely in a rental car. Airport LRT alone does not put a dent into the equation.
Flying for business: google maps tells you: 1 hour from DT to airport in a cab at rush hour, or, 49 mins including 2 block walk to LRT station. I only carry a small rolling tote, but I’m still taking the cab 10/10 times. If I’m footing the bill myself and I’m alone and it’s summer, I might take the train.
I think around a million people live in or within a 5 min walk of a bridge to island...(total guess, but tons of people live in downtown). Parking is a nightmare, transit/walking are a breeze. That statement is true for several sq kms in Vancouver, and maybe 1 sq km in Calgary (maybe geographical size isn’t the right metric...it’s true for hundreds of hotels and attractions in YVR, but only a dozen in YYC)
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