Environmental Design professor Beverly Sandalack comments on 30 years of urban development and public transit growth in June's edition of The Calgary Journal.
“It was a pretty bold move when (the LRT system) was put in,” says Sandalack. “There was some sentiment that the city wasn’t dense enough to support it. So it was a really visionary thing to say, ‘no we are going to put it in’ despite the low density.”
Now the C-Train, which recently celebrated its 30th birthday, boasts 37 stations and 46 kilometres of track across the city. As the LRT system and the city continue to grow, questions of efficiency and continuity with urban development have begun to arise.
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