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Originally Posted by polishavenger
Those are some very interesting maps. My first thought is that its huge over kill for a city like calgary. I would love it if we lived in a dense enough city to merit such and extensive plan, but something tells me simply running such a system would bankrupt the CMA around Calgary.
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You hit the nail on the head there. Density is the key to transit. I remember taking a train in the Netherlands from Goes (in the south- pronounced Hoos), to Amsterdam, that only took a little less than 2 hours. But in that two hours, the train stopped in Roosendaal (pop 78K), Dordrecht (118K), Rotterdam (2.1 million), Leiden (117K), Den Haag (1 million), Schipol Airport and Amsterdam (2.1 million). So in that short distance, the train serves a population of 5 million people, plus all the travellers going through Schipol. The CMA needs to densify to a significant degree for anything of this sort to work.
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