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Article: Lessons from Calgary.(Canadian province weighs benefits of mass transit)
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- Mass Transit
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- September 1, 2001
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Since 1971, the population of Calgary Alberta, Canada has more than doubled, from 400,000 to 860,000 today. Rapid growth has created many interesting challenges for transit.
Calgary once carried an image of a Canadian version of the wild west. Its annual Stampede is world famous. But it is now also a major Canadian financial center, second only to Toronto in the number of corporate headquarters located here.
Some of the money moved here first from Montreal and then Toronto, while money from the Far East has come via Vancouver. A major source is from within the Province of Alberta itself. Traveling north from Calgary to the provincial capital of Edmonton, ...