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Originally Posted by Bunk
Okotoks and Airdrie are not even close to being contiguous with the City of Calgary - they are small satellites of a large central municipality. Vancouver is a very different region whereby Surrey is contiguous and has a population not that far below the central municipality of Vancouver.
Skytrain is a good system, no question. Calgary's is quite good too though - we achieve better per capita ridership.
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Yeah, in addition Richmond is about 6 or 7 times the population of Okotoks and Surrey is 8 or 9 times the population of Airdrie. The GVRD is over twice the population of the Calgary Region.
That the CTrain reaches 22X in the south.and past Crowfoot in the northwest, and will soon reach greater Mckenzie Town in the southeast, especially given the overall population difference, is comparable to it going to Coquitlam or Richmond in the GVRD, at least in terms of reach.
Getting the CTrain to Airdrie and Okotoks is like having the Skytrain go to Mission or past Langley. Mission is served by the West Coast Express commuter rail, which is eventually what Airdrie, Cochrane and Okotoks will be served by.
The GVRD is served by a transit system befitting a Canadian urban region of nearly 3 million people. Once Calgary reaches that population, it will have a network as good or better.