Given the geographical restrictions, not a surprise. It was Marda Loopers at the edge of the area, (my old boss was one of them) that instead of taking a fairly straightforward 10 min bus into Dt, they often took a C2g. Anywhere C2g serviced, it was basically replacing a very simple transit route. In the Beltline, people could walk to work as well and not need a C2g except on poor weather days.
The turnover Ina city like Vancouver where you had people going to shop on Robson, go to Granville Island or Stanley Park, had 3x or 4x turnover per day then the 7 hours most sat in Dt Calgary between 8 and 3pm. And other cities have a downtown that people travel to and around on weekends, not here so much. And all the people that I knew that had C2g account had their own car for weekends, it really was an alternative to a short bus ride.
Only reason Toronto got dropped was the high fees they were getting charged by the city, and I suspect a strong taxi commission is behind that.
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