Alberta News
Calgary
- Calgary Mayor Naheed Nenshi
says he wants public transit to become an issue in the
federal election campaign after Calgary's system received only a middling
score on a new international ranking. Public transit in Calgary was ranked
13th out of 24 in the world by the Toronto Board of Trade's Scorecard on
Prosperity," CBC News reported on March 28.
"Calgary's C-Train system is running at full capacity, with 270,000 people
using it every day, the report said. Yet, almost 80 per cent of Calgarians
drive to work. Nenshi said better public transit makes cities more livable,"
CBC News reported. "Canada is one of the few countries in the world that does
not have a national public transit strategy. And this election is a great time
for us to start talking about developing a national strategy," he said."
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/story/2011/03/28/calgary-board-trade-transit-public.html
