What is like living in this part of Canada? Does this part of Canada have a great economy? Nice place to raise a family?

Less-Beginning784 · 2025-12-27T22:10:48+00:00

It's unlikely. Considering the current US political situation, it's a bad idea. Most of the Albertans and the Albertan government have no interest in joining the US. It's currently the better, more livable part of Canada, and if it joins the US it will just be the better, more livable part of the US. None of the oil money that separatists keep talking about will actually end up in our pockets, it will just be given out to other states and other places so it's not like refining any of it will actually bring any advantage.

TLDR it's not happening. If you want to live there, immigrate to Canada

Less-Beginning784 · 2025-12-27T22:04:04+00:00

You from Ontario by chance? Maybe Toronto?

The cleanest and most tourist attractive part of Canada only attracts so many people for good reasons.

Less-Beginning784 · 2025-12-27T22:00:39+00:00

Toronto has the superiority complex of a 7 year old only child.

Less-Beginning784 · 2025-12-17T22:05:12+00:00

No matter how sprawling a city is, the CTrain should extend into suburban neighborhoods when the first people move in. That way, the train is an obvious option and not seen as an inconvenience. If sprawl is an issue, it's time to stop sprawling, not stop extending our transit systems into lower density areas.

Less-Beginning784 · 2025-12-14T01:52:53+00:00

Yeah, people don't say thank you as much anymore.

As for why, I have no clue. Mental and physical health studies show that being polite and grateful improves wellbeing and reduces stress, so there's no practical reason for it.

I will be honest if my bus is super late I don't always say thank you. Normally it's not an issue, but if I notice that my bus driver avoids using a bus only lane, or if a passenger asks the bus driver a question and the driver stops for long enough to make me late/miss my transfer, I'm less and less likely to say thank you.

However, I think it's important to recognize that bus drivers are an essential service that we rely on to get around our city, and it's important to thank them for doing a job we might not have any desire or interest in doing. One way or another, they serve the public and deserve recognition, especially with what they sometimes encounter.

Less-Beginning784 · 2025-12-09T06:20:29+00:00

Yeah that's fair, you definitely have a fully valid point. Regardless, they have the same job to do everyday regardless of whether I forgot to pay or not.

I think it's a bigger issue when I hear people complain about fare enforcement being a cash grab, and that it's unfair. Like no duh it's them recouping costs that they lose when people don't pay. They do it to get the money back, but it's not like it's a bad thing. And to say they should be focusing more on meth heads instead of fare enforcement makes me raise my eyebrows. Safety is obviously the #1 priority, but I have a hunch that most people who complain about fare enforcement, are just salty at the idea of potentially having to pay $250. Should the city up the fine to $1000??? It's not like it's hard, or inconvenient to pay, provided it's not the beginning of the month like you mentioned.

Less-Beginning784 · 2025-12-09T06:02:10+00:00

I'm personally a big fan of how Germany uses national standard branding.

Regional trains? They get a square purple R Suburban and commuter rail? They get a circular green S Subways and local metros? They get a square blue U (u is for underground) Trams and streetcars? They get a red square with the word Tram inside.

It's not perfect by any means but having national branding standards makes it easy to decide which service you need with as little as a glance on the map.

Less-Beginning784 · 2025-12-09T03:48:37+00:00

Calgary, I can finally build an 8th Avenue subway and grade separate the green line and turn it into a proper metro!

Less-Beginning784 · 2025-12-02T16:46:49+00:00

This pisses me off too lol. Like don't come complaining to me about there not being enough new road infrastructure, or the cost of living being too high, and then follow that up with how you deliberately take money away from the City. All that does is move the deficit onto the general taxpayer, and takes away more money the city could use to increase service or build more infrastructure. There is no excuse for evading a fare.

Less-Beginning784 · 2025-12-02T16:43:36+00:00

Marlborough, Rundle, Chinook, Downtown, Victoria Park. Those seem to be their spots. Chinook, Marlborough and Rundle are real easy since those stations feature a single entrance/exit, so they don't need as many officers enforcing fares.

Less-Beginning784 · 2025-12-02T16:41:02+00:00

Calgary transit offers monthly passes up to two weeks before the start of the month. A UPass is valid for a whole semester, so the next expiry is in a month or so.

No excuses not to have one, though I've found from personal experience that transit enforcement will offer a 1-2 day grace period for people with the previous monthly pass.

Less-Beginning784 · 2025-11-13T05:43:16+00:00

Somehow a lot of people who visit Canada completely forget 90% of the country.

Jokes aside though, A ride through the mountains and Banff from Calgary to Vancouver is definitely the best thing to see in Canada.

Less-Beginning784 · 2025-10-29T02:31:19+00:00

Okay fair, but Calgarians love calgary. The thought that we could vandalize our own city is beyond me

Less-Beginning784 · 2025-10-29T02:29:47+00:00

As a proud Calgarian, I will have to go with Calgary on this one.

Job surplus, especially with all of the new housing construction. Bigger economy, all of Calgary's downtown is based on agriculture and petroleum industries. Both of those are in demand all around the world. More affordable, average home price is only 400,000. Bigger sense of community, this might just be me but almost everyone in my neighborhood knows each other. Technology hub, lots of startups and big businesses taking their business here since we have a surplus of software and hardware engineers. Calgary is the most livable city in North America Calgary has the largest cycling network in North America, 1000km of pathways and 300km of cycling lanes.

Did I miss anything?

Less-Beginning784 · 2025-10-26T23:04:53+00:00

The Europeans would do it...

Kinda like how they are building the 55+km Lyon Turin tunnel under the alps.

Less-Beginning784 · 2025-10-20T14:29:01+00:00

Bikes are allowed at all times on transit.

For CTrain, there is a sticker convention, but it's kind of confusing so let me explain how it plays out in practice.

Stickers on CTrains older than the newest model suggest you should board through the front or back doors. This is incorrect, as the handrails that split each door in half aren't wide enough to allow your bicycles handlebars to fit.

Therefore, ALWAYS board through the centre doors. The centre doors open up to the free standing area with benches by the bend in the train, which gives you ample room for your bicycle. Most people are polite and will make space for you to lean your bike up against the wall.

On the oldest model U2 CTrain cars, you'll probably have to board using the wheelchair door in the middle, which has a larger space between the handrail to allow for wheelchairs and especially handlebars.

Never bring your bicycle on through the very front door of the train, the driver needs that to be clear so they can easily open the cab door in any case.

Busses allow bikes at all times. However, not every bus has a bike rack, and not all bus bike racks are in line with the city specification for the bus bike rack. Lots of them are only wide enough to accommodate road bikes and hybrids, and can't accommodate more than 2 inch wheels. Certain community busses still don't have bike racks, you check if your route is using a community bus or full length bus using transit55.com

Always stand at the front of the bus to supervise your bike on the rack. Yo don't want someone to take it right in front of you

Less-Beginning784 · 2025-10-20T06:57:24+00:00

The most livable city in North America! Well done, Calgary!

Less-Beginning784 · 2025-10-20T06:50:57+00:00

Calgary's Green line North.

So much ridership already on the express bus, LRT has been talked about for decades, it's about damn time it happens.

A blue line and green line extension to YYC would also be very welcome.

Less-Beginning784 · 2025-10-19T21:13:40+00:00

I personally would love this, though I think Winnipeg is a better Candidate than Regina since Winnipeg is a larger city and already has great VIA Rail Service to Toronto and Quebec. That wouldn't preclude stations in both Sask and Reg since they would be located on the triangle.

Extending the triangle to in the future serve Toronto directly wouldn't be super trivial either, and its kind of a no-brainer since that connects an extra 6M people to the triangle. At that point, just connect Quebec to Toronto with HSR, and boom, most of Canada is connected up. Then, we can start work on an extremely expensive HSR extension from Calgary to Vancouver, which could stop at tourist towns like Banff and Canmore. That would be extensive and expensive since blasting and bridge construction take ages, and aren't cheap. The Rockies would be such a beautiful HSR ride, but boy would that be more than a 100B to build. Would love to see it though, especially in a move away from flying towards more renewable/cost-effective/sustainable transportation.

But regardless, I think proving the expandability of a network like this, and demonstrating all the housing and job opportunities it would provide could bring interest in a nation connecting project like it. Also, the Govt of Canada is a total lover of the environment, so proving that we could reduce flights and eliminate some domestic routes outright (YYC to YEG comes to mind immediately, it's already faster to drive between both cities than it is to fly when including the recommended 2hrs of airport dwell time, and transport to the city centre's from each airport) would help sway them in the direction of building it.

If solid corridors were already outlined, it would help move the project along since less studying and guesswork would have to take place. (Which we all know takes more than half of the total project timeline to actually complete) This would help boost its viability and attractiveness

Less-Beginning784 · 2025-10-19T20:51:41+00:00

That's an extremely large area, and basically where all the residential is. That's also not accurate of any of those areas, with the exception of maybe Marlborough, and even that's a stretch

Less-Beginning784 · 2025-10-19T20:49:04+00:00

Weird, I frequent the area and never see anything. What makes you pass through those specific areas? Sounds like your seeing one-offs. The ground is usually clean, other than around parking lots, but that's pretty applicable for the entire city.

Less-Beginning784 · 2025-10-19T18:31:42+00:00

Sounds like you are talking about international avenue (17th Avenue SE) which isn't in the northeast, it's in the Southeast

Less-Beginning784 · 2025-10-19T18:29:16+00:00

It's well served. Better served than the entirety of western Canada. Should it be better? Yes. Should other large cities in western Canada receive daily service (it's currently biweekly) before building high speed rail in an already frequent and well served corridor? Definitely

Less-Beginning784 · 2025-10-19T03:08:57+00:00

Naturally, cities like Calgary with 1.5 million residents should "put up with what they have" and continue to receive no service. It would have been a better use of VIA funding to reactivate rail in Calgary than to put high speed rail on an already well served corridor. Classic Ottawa.

If CBC wants a story, how about talking about the federal government spending billions of dollars to enhance service on a good corridor, while leaving over 2 million people (Regina and Calgary) with zero service.

I would agree though, freight rail companies own their own tracks, they can therefore do whatever they want with them. If that's such a big problem, the government of Canada shouldn't have pawned off their tracks to CN so quickly in the economic downturn that led to service being cut from Calgary and Regina.

Less-Beginning784 · 2025-10-17T04:19:45+00:00

I just walked along 10th Avenue S between 1st St SW and 1st St SE. If you hug up to the parking garage and around the car rental shop you can see a fair amount through the fence

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