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Originally Posted by blender
On public transit: I lived in Sydney Australia for a while, and I am still amazed at how efficient the transit system was. I've never seen anything remotely like it in North America, certainly not Calgary which is a pathetic joke by comparison.
To me it is proof that it CAN be done if it is planned and funded properly.
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Public transit in North America has one main goal. Get people to the stores and restaurants to spend money. It is useless for most people for any other purpose. The office building I work in in Surrey is about a 10-20 minute drive depending on the time of day (11 km one-way), but about 2.5 hours by public transit. Thousands of people commute to work in that same area every day. Yet I can be in downtown Vancouver on Saturday to go shopping in about 45 minutes which is about 30 km away.
It was even worse when I lived in the GTA.