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Originally Posted by Red
So you get off in downtown edmonton or calgary by have to go to the big mall or somewhere out in south calgary. You still need a car, don't you? Now you have to rent one so there goes the money savings and then some. I guess you could take a cab, but that's again costing you unnecessary money.
What benefit is there over taking a westjet?
Someone brought Europe as an example of how these trains help. Well, they do there because they have a transit system to support that. Here you need to transfer 3 times just to go across the city and that would take you hours in a non-rush timeslot. We simply don't have the local transit system to make this train an advantage over driving your own car. We'd need to triple or more the amout of buses and c-trains to even come close to europe's transit.
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Why can't someone pick you up? And downtown in both cities have great connector busses/trains. C-Train anyone? Wow. Extrememly short sighted of you to think that saving an hour of your own personal driving time would be useless. How much more work will you get done when you have an extra hour to spend? Don't have to drive? OMG, the inconvenience of having someone pick you up! Or, *gasp* take the C-Train!
I suppose I should also comment on the WestJet thing. Airports. It would be easier to check in/out of the train. Likely, the total time spent would be roughly the same, though with the train, the majority of that is spent actually travelling instead of preparing to travel. Also, the location of the airports. If I'm an executive and I have a business meeting in Edmonton to go to, I'm going to want to step out of my office tower downtown and onto a train... I don't want to spend 30 minutes getting to an airport and then dealing with the airport. Likewise, when I get off the train, I want to be close to the place I'm going, and don't want to deal with airports. Trains would also have a higher capacity than airplanes. But for those that are closer to the airports, they'll probably still fly.