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Originally Posted by FireFly
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. |
But can you really save an hour after you pick up the rental car etc? Pick me ups don't work in the business world and this train is focused on business users.
You're thinking of aunt Edna coming for Thanksgiving in which casy you have a good point. I am thinking of people that travel on business.