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Originally Posted by STeeLy
A train to the airport is certainly a good thing to have, a lot of people who work at the airport will use it, but visitors, probably not as much, at least not at this point. What most tourists come to to Calgary to see and do (I'm thinking Banff, Lake Louise, etc...) at this point requires a car anyway, they might as well rent one at the airport and go, I imagine tourists actually staying in Calgary and only in Calgary is pretty minimal.
A train to the airport will also only be as good as the rest of the rapid transit network, the cities where visitors will actually use airport trains are also cities that tend to have a built out and robust public transit system where you could basically reach anywhere you need to and in a somewhat timely manner. Calgary certainly is not one of those cities.
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A large number of tourists now arrive and get directly on a bus that takes them to their hotel in Banff. Unless they manage some very high speed rail, it's not even going to be time competitive to make up for stops and transfers.