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Originally Posted by tvp2003
Layperson here but is there really that much demand to move people into the core nowadays? And in the future? Office towers are sitting empty, people are working remotely, and what about automated driving technology? In other words, will the problem of 2010 or even 2015 (getting more people into downtown faster) really the problem of 2020, 2025, or 2030 and beyond?
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Havent you heard, Jason Kenney will have everyone's jobs back, and another 50,000 new ones, likely by the end of December, or mid January at the latest? Although, all those amazing paying jobs will be held by people far too well off to have to ride the proletariat chariot.
Seriously though, good question, especially when it comes to Calgary. We have the worst habit of building infrastructure to fill our needs literally today, with no thought to 20-30 years down the road. The LRT system was a perfect example. Ran at 80% of capacity the day it opened, with no flexibility to increase (i.e. the 3 car platforms). I travel on a lot of mass transit systems, and almost every other one has stations with the capacity to add cars to each train as needed.