Calgary Devlopment thread

[interchange42]

With the expected drop in inner suburban population as noted above, Calgary Transit will be in for a rough ride. As grown up kids move out of the inner suburbs and head for the outer suburbs, you'll have a greying ring in the middle that will mostly have cars to get around in. While more poeple will be using transit in total because fo the growth of the city, the trips will get much longer as potential transit riders move further and further out. To keep transit affordable, Calgary may have to rezone the inner suburbs to promote more dense redevelopment along inner suburban arterials and get growth back into town again.

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[ummagumma66]

Calgary will hit 1.25 million long before 2024, in july the city breached 1 million

 

[bizorky]

We will only know that by 2024, won't we?

 

[ummagumma66]

one thing that has to be done reguardless of population is to encourage some density outside the core, and bury the frigging C-Train, it runs right through downtown and ties up traffic in the core and throught out the city..

 

[simply Dan]

The C-Train was one of the cheapest light rail systems ever constructed - straight lines, level crossings, simple basic technology, very bad frequency service.

 

[ummagumma66]

I'd believe that the C-Train was just that, its convenent don't get me wrong, but I look at some of the crossings and the way its laid out I wonder if the city engineers were smoking anything when they laid it out, but on a whole the transit system here needs a massive overhaul, the busses run at times between 30-75 mins on a Sunday, and the C-Train will run between 5-15 minutes apart during day ending at or about 2 am, when the busses stopped running at midnidnight. I think the busses need to be 24 hour on the main routes, to help people who get off during the 9 hours the busses don't run. and the trains should run 24 hours too. the transit system is set up for a city of half the size of calgary. Hopefully someone will get smart and try to fix the problems with Calgary Transit.