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Originally Posted by powderjunkie
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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My former thesis supervisor and program director of Urban and Regional Planning, David Gordon, has done a crapload of work breaking down the data that is a pretty decent illustration of places in cities one can (and does) reasonably exist without car dependency.
Here is the picture of Calgary and Vancouver (not the same scale of the image). He suggests the difference in the "active core" whereby a lot of people walk and take transit and that car-dependent lifestyles are avoidable. There is certainly a bigger area in Vancouver, but not way, way bigger as a proportion of the metro region. We are however, way, way better than Vancouver was when it was our size in the late 80s or early 90s. Continued densification, transit system expansion (Green line and MAX BRT), pedestrian and cycling upgrades will catch us up in time.
Note - he was missing the WLRT in his image
