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Originally Posted by Allan83
Yeah, but Okotoks is twice the size of Rockland, so even if the percentage of people who work in Calgary is lower there are still probably enough of them.
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That makes sense.
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Originally Posted by ssiguy
Kind of silly that Okotoks, Cochrane, and Chestemere already don't have some sort of connecting buses to Calgary as they are really just commuter towns.
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For Okotoks and Cochrane, it might have to do both with how fast each city has grown, and also how extensive Calgary's LRT is. We have park and rides at LRT stations literally all the way to the northwestern and southern boundaries of the urban area, so it's just really easy for people to drive in and take the Ctrain from the stations at the city border. Also due to the rapid growth of these communities, from towns of less than 5 000 twenty years ago to cities of 20 000+ now, there wasn't demand for a commuter transit system until recently. Alberta also doesn't have the greatest track record of government support for transit projects
