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Originally Posted by Table 5
I can see the appeal of a Calgary to Banff train (with stops in Cochrane, Stoney, Canmore) as I think there is a good tourism-centred case for it. Ideally it would even go out to Lake Louise, assuming the existing line goes that way.
But Calgary to Edmonton? Maybe the numbers work, but definitely less interested in that one.
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I think if the numbers worked it'd have been done by now.
I do think a train to the Airport is a great idea. It'd take tons of work, but most major cities do it, it makes a lot of sense.
I trained into London from Gatwick, got on a train at Charles de Gaulle in Paris, having a train right at the airport is a really good idea....
With the caveat...its gotta go somewhere.
For instance, the train into London proper from Gatwick? It drops you off at...holy hell! A Central Train Station!! From which you can get essentially anywhere in the City you want.
We always run into the same problem of 'circular reasoning.'
Nobody wants to train it to Calgary, Red Deer or Edmonton and wind up without a car.
Ditto Banff/Canmore because while those places are easily traversable on foot and part of the idea is to ease traffic congestion, it immediately goes out the window when travelers want to go and see stuff away from the Urban centers.
Oh and the Green line is a debacle of monumental proportions. That thing is a taxpayer boondoggle.