Originally Posted by
Dahon.Steve
I would still like to have a paper map so I can always have it with me but that App is quite useful. However, what happens if your phone runs out of battery? I guess I'm spoiled with NJ transit providing PDFs of every bus and rail schedule by the hour, seven days a week.
As Buglady pointed out in the post you quoted you can get paper copies of the schedules.
Originally Posted by
Dahon.Steve
I was surprised the C-train was providing service at 10:00 o'clock on a Saturday evening in 10 minute intervals! HOLY COW! Who said Calgary has horrible public transit! That's better than New Jersey Transit where we wait 20 minutes for the tram on weekends. LOL!
So you base the overall quality of the transit system here on the frequency of train service? That's just one part of the equation.
As mentioned in a couple of other posts by people who live here the train system isn't extensive. There are only four arms to the train system that all pass through downtown. One goes straight south, one goes straight west, one goes to the northwest and one to the northeast and the distance between endpoints of the arms is huge.
It's good if you live near one of the lines and want to go downtown or somewhere near one of the other arms but not of much use for anything else.
Originally Posted by
Dahon.Steve
I feel that if you can afford a 500K home in the burbs, why not live within bike or walking distance from the tram?
It's a huge city with a very limited number of lines and there are only so many homes near the train lines.
You don't seem to grasp the sprawl of this city. To put it into perspective I can do a metric century in a return trip from my home in the SE quadrant of the city to the NW quadrant in a relatively straight line, and without actually going to the outer edges of either quadrant. I could easily add 30 km or more by going all the way from one corner to the other and back.