Posted Apr 5, 2020, 4:21 PM
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Location: Calgary
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Originally Posted by Urban_Sky
The advantage of having downtown stations (such as most train stations) is not just for people living/working in close proximity to these stations, but also that the hubs for urban/regional transit tend to be also located downtown, which means that the single-best location to place any transportation station is downtown, but this does not preclude the train from also stopping at a suburban station (like Dorval and Saint-Lambert for Montreal, Fallowfield for Ottawa or Guildwood, Oakville or Malton for Toronto).
That said, the struggle is to find a somewhat ideal location in Calgary (where the C-train passes at least 300 meters away from the existing - disused - rail station) and of course in Edmonton (where the "South Edmonton" terminus is 2 km away from the next LRT station and at least twice that distance from anything which could be called "downtown")...
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The transit planners in Calgary appear to consider any heavy passenger rail to be so unlikely or far in the future that they have never considered it in their plans. And that was probably a sensible assumption.
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