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Originally Posted by corporatejay
The LRT doesn't really service a large part of the city and is really only effective at getting people to and from downtown.
Maybe if they had adopted BRT in 1977 Calgary would have a more efficient bus network that can get you around the city.
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Just curious, are there any cities that would be good examples of following that sort of strategy?
Ottawa is one city I can think of that did it. In the early 80s, Ottawa opened their Transitway, which was a network of dedicated busways and transit priority lanes to improve movement into and through downtown, similar to 7th Avenue for the C-Train in Calgary.
Here are the latest stats I could find for each system (Calgary's are 2 years more recent):
For Calgary Transit, the annual ridership is 106.5 million individual trips, with an average trip length of 14.7km. For OC Transpo, it's 94.4 million trips and an average trip length of 10km.
Despite Calgary's much more-extensive LRT system, Calgary Transit also has 20 more total bus routes than Ottawa (169 compared to 149). Calgary also has more bus shelters and stops with benches.