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Originally Posted by PeteMoss
Yes - you could improve it and they are trying in most places but unless the city is designed with public transit in mind you can't get many people on to it.
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Exactly. Outside of rush hour, buses through Calgary suburbs only have a handful of passengers. Would doubling the frequency boost those numbers significantly? I doubt it. We can mandate higher density in new communities to make transit more efficient, but what do you do about existing low-density communities? You can’t just bulldoze them all down and rebuild. Home delivery of groceries, etc would move the needle a lot more. Though at the cost of even more automation and job losses in food and retail.