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Originally Posted by SIGSEGV

It is certainly possible for a car-dependent city to become a transit city. Calgary is a good example (see e.g. https://www.thetransportpolitic.com/...awling-cities/).

Even given its remarkably high light-rail ridership (given population), I wouldn't call Calgary a transit city, given that passenger-trips by car is over 3M/day, roughly ten times that of transit.

And transit ridership also peaked in 2014/2015 due to economic conditions; LRT has recovered back to earlier levels but APTA numbers show unlinked bus trips is still currently down about 11% from peak, with potential to be down further in the rest of the year due to Transit budget cuts implemented this month.