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Originally Posted by RedHot25
Alright, I hate the canucks, but I don't get the hate on for Vancouver? I pretty much lived in or very near Calgary all my life...then moved for a year or 2 to Van, and then elsewhere.
Anyways here goes:
True, there is traffic....but honestly I thought it was what would be expected in a big city (whatever Vancouver is 2-3 million or so?). In all honesty, I find Calgary traffic worse (obviously taking into account different cities sizes).
I think that I used a different translink, and a different Calgary TRansit  ! I found Translink to be vastly superior to Calgary's transit. Vastly.
To each their own....but I thoroughly enjoyed Vancouver (and this coming from a ttried and true Albertan). |
Vancouver is around 600,000 - the entire lower mainland is over 2 million - if you combined Vancouver, Burnaby, West/North Vancouver, Richmond - you would get equal population to Calgary, but diff not equal sq/km.
As far as traffic goes - that truly is in the eye of the beholder - If i stayed at my parents place in Calgary and had to work downtown, they live in the SE part of the city and i could make it downtown in 15 minutes in the morning. Traffic in most of Calgary still is distinct - morning rush hour, afternoon rushhour that lasts maybe an hour to hour and half.
In Vancouver the traffic is bad 12 hrs a day. And if Vancouver had anywhere near the freeway system that Calgary has, it would make a world of difference.
Translink when its working is ok, but trying to travel for example from UBC to BCIT or Simon Fraser requires any combination of 3 bus rides and a sky train + a good hour of your time and they are only less than 20 km apart.
I can go from Lake Bonivista to the UofC on one bus and a ctrain and its prob the same distance and it may take me 30 minutes.
The C-train and the routes it takes make transit in Calgary much better...
Translink does a good job of getting people to and from downtown Vancouver - but anywhere else is a nightmare - i think thats the difference between transit in both cities.
Weather - the climate in the lower mainland is better, but the weather isnt. Again its personal opinion, i can handle a few weeks of a year of freezing cold and clear skies than 6 months of cloud and rain. And Vancouver when i lived there always got at least one major dump of snow per year - and when that happened the city and transit went to hell.
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