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FWIW once Red Line does eventually need to go underground, the plan is to keep Blue on 7th which would be fine since Red leaving would...

Except that Vancouver’s rail system in 1990 wasn’t anywhere near the level of Calgary’s today. It pales in comparison of ridership...

1990 Vancouver was still 6 years away from its first B-Line, let alone Rapidbus. I won’t deny that our bus service is nothing special...

Putting the Red Line u/g is a lot of money for little gain. It would shorten trip times, but increase time getting in and out of the...

I really don't get the comparisons to Edmonton. They're just doing what Calgary did decades ago. The CTrain is already extensive as...

None of the 4 endpoints badly need extensions, but NE and Deep South would be my choices. Both areas are growing rapidly.

That might have helped some, but the Green Line had a lot of new challenging things for Calgary like the deep tunnel through DT and...

The Max lines are still in their infancy and ridership has been increasing. Max Orange is now all day with intervals of 8.5min peak and...

I'll be honest, I've only used the BRT once, trying the Max Purple on a Saturday after it first opened, so I don't have an opinion...

We’ll have to agree to disagree 😉 I don’t think they’ve ever hit the brakes since the first LRT leg opened in 1981. There has been...

Green line is already well underway, several years of enabling works have been completed and are ongoing. It's a massive project, and...

I wouldn't say Calgary has dropped the ball in general. Calgary built their extensions back in the 90's and early 2000's and extending...

Here's some (pre-pandemic) numbers I put together showing weekday transit boardings at the airport stations of a selection of cities...

https://livewirecalgary.com/2023/09/13/calgary-route-ahead-capital-costs-755-million-decade/