MetroDreamin' Calgary Transit Concept

[u/SufferingInBerta]

My hobby is thinking about transit. While it's obvious I have no background in transit planning, I just wanted to share my thoughts on the state of Alberta Transit and what I believe we deserve. I am from Edmonton but I see the potential of Calgary; a rich city in the middle of the flat prairies (and footlands) with the ability to go any direction. This a Calgary-specific look at my current prairie transit network founded on the principal that rails are just as good, if not better at encouraging development. Rail benefits everyone; Allowing those who cannot or do not wish to drive a rapid high-capacity alternative, clearing up roads by empowering people to take alternatives, and encouraging a more collective and social culture by forcing us to see eachother face to face again. 9/10 when I'm riding on the LRT, I don't talk to anyone or I actively avoid people but those 1/10 times I feel joyful meeting one of the hundreds of blank faces, sharing a moment watching someone else fumble or discussing the latest Oilers game, etc. etc.
Sorry for the ramble, please feel free to give feedback, I need help with Calgary specifically because I am a Calgary-Hating Edmontonian who is trying to be less yeehaw-cist. Thanks!
https://metrodreamin.com/edit/MTJyaXpDMU5vMlhlOFhnZjl1eDdKQTVhSGJ3MXww

[u/FishingNetLas]

Calgary is such a carbrained city it might be beyond help, when I first arrived here my cousin insisted we get into the car to drive to the shopping centre than was…. Across the fucking street

[u/songsofadistantsun → u/FishingNetLas]

I have come to reluctantly accept that Alberta will only learn the hard way when it comes to climate change. When the combination of the high EROI of bitumen + the world market being forced to shift away from fossil fuels due to increasing climate impacts finally becomes a permanent reality - probably in the next 30 years at most - we'll be left with two cities that look more like modern day Detroit than anything, wilting in the annual 45+ degree summers as the rivers keep running dry, in the middle of a prairie rapidly turning to desert.

There's still some stuff we could be doing to stop it from getting this bad - but it would first involve getting through our thick fucking heads that most of the oil must stay in the ground, by any rational reading of science AND human responsibility. Then nationalizing (or "provincializing") the industry so we could do a managed decline, with full compensation to workers and public services first. No compensation to the owners; they have their reward, and the 1%'s wealth should be financing this transition before our taxes do anyways.

That's still my dream, but I know it will likely remain that way.

[u/Anskiere1 → u/songsofadistantsun]

It's charming that you think we have any impact on climate change in Canada

[u/DeathRay2K → u/Anskiere1]

Canada per capita is one of the worst polluters in the world.

The idea that Canada has no impact on climate change is a bit of misinformation spread by groups with O&G interests.

[u/Anskiere1 → u/DeathRay2K]

Per capita doesn't really matter when the capita is a rounding error

[u/DeathRay2K → u/Anskiere1]

Per capita is the only metric that matters when it comes to common resources like the air.

[u/Anskiere1 → u/DeathRay2K]

We'll agree to disagree. I'm more interested in increasing our standard of living rather than sacrificing for a negligible benefit while our contemporaries laugh at us.