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Originally Posted by HOWITZER
LOL at people making the comparison to Vancouver. The effective reach of the Skytrain system is Vancouver, Burnaby, Coquitlam, and a bit of Richmond. The combined population of those 4 centres is 1,201,834 - or basically half of the metro Vancouver population. Skytrain does reach into Surrey, but not significantly.
Ridership should be roughly on par, and I would even expect Vancouver ridership to be lower. As another poster noted, Vancouver has many different sub-cities where people live and work that make up metro Vancouver. Total contrast to Calgary where you have one supersized city, and everyone commutes downtown regardless of where they live.
Calgary farrr less complicated terrain to build an at-grade system well, and should leverage that to keep building out an extensive network.
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The SkyTrain in Vancouver goes into Surrey Central, so it's accessible by most of the population of Surrey. Although geographically not in the centre of the city, it's in the middle of the population centre.
There are about 500,000 daily riders in Vancouver vs. 300,000 in Calgary. Vancouver's ridership is expected to expand as the system is growing rapidly. If they build the UBC line, it'll result in a huge increase. It's not the terrain being the issue in Vancouver, so much as it is dealing with property owners.