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Originally Posted by Locke
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.
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You don't even have to go that far to find an example that works amazingly well.
The Union Person Express is fantastic with stops at Bloor and Westin. No taxi's busses or renal cars
Brisbane also has the Gold line which takes you from the international terminal on the north side of Brisbane through downtown and all the way to the Gold Coast that would be very comparable to going from the Airport to Banff.