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Originally Posted by Fuzz
What's with this obsession with spending a boatload of money to serve so few daily users? You literally have tens of thousands who would ride it daily, removing cars from the roads, pollution, etc. Contrast that with the airport, typically having under 25k departures a day, but far far fewer would use the LRT.
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As a traveller, I like having the option. As a resident of Calgary, the cost/benefit to me and the city isn't worth it.
Obsession is a good word. A train that lots of people will use to live, play, and work? "Public transit is for commies!"
A train that relatively much fewer people will use, most of them non-residents? "Look at us and our expensive train to the airport! We're big time!"
But of course, it is a popular opinion that a train to the airport is so very essential. Whether that's actually true doesn't really matter from a political point of view.