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Originally Posted by Wooster
The operational capacity of the c-train is a bit of a different issue that what is the most appropriate land use surrounding the station. All things being equal, it's a lot more efficient for more people to be living adjacent to Brentwood Station, The Research Park and U of C than out on the fringe of the city instead.
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I think you are completely correct on this. Making the stations larger to accomodate bigger trains and buying more trains is much more cheap and easy to handle for a city than the consequences of sprawl, the astronomical expenses in all kinds of infrastructure needed to create new buildable land and the very costly extensions on transitways, the gridlock and the pollution caused by more cars on the roads.
Create density around the light rail stations is the best thing Calgary can and surelly will do in the near future (intensely), because the centralisec urban structure, in what respects office jobs and the very well developed public transit system Calgary has, just begs for it.