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Originally Posted by PepsiFree
If the choice is between bigger parking lots near Lake Louise and bigger parking lots where the shuttle picks you up from and people casually just litter the highway with vehicles, I choose the closer option.
There are lots of areas like that where vehicles end up spilling into the highway. Acknowledging that a bunch of public transit infrastructure would possibly be even more disruptive, significantly more expensive, and is not likely to be build before these areas reach a breaking point, maybe we could just accept reality and make this places easier to visit in the short term, too?
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It isn’t just parking capacity. It’s road capacity into the parking lots. You also would need these massive parking lots in more sensitive areas and parkade a would be much more obtrusive at LL or Johnston Canyon then out side the Banff Rec Center. Getting the number of cars up and down moraine lake road that the shuttle can accommodate is a difficult task. So instead of upgrading infrastructure at multiple locations you do it at one or you use existing infrastructure like the LL or Sunshine parking lots.
Lake Louise is a really good example of using an already impacted area of the ski hill to provide excess parking for an area short on parking Moraine lake and Lake Louise. More buses from existing parking infrastructure doesn’t take years to implement. It reduces congestion now.