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It's A Bird! It's A Plane! It's LRT - maybe

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Services for Real Estate Pros with Glenn Simon Inc.

Albertan are interested in Light Rail Transit and most, nearly 75%, say they would use it - in a recent poll done by The Calgary Herald.

"A new poll done exclusively for the Herald shows 70 per cent of Albertans would ride high-speed rail if it were to become a reasonably priced reality in the supercharged corridor from Calgary to Edmonton.

While the province awaits a feasibility study on high-speed rail, this Leger Marketing survey also reveals two-thirds of Albertans support investing taxpayers' dollars in a bullet train."

The Edmonton Calgary corrider is an economic power unto itself any transportation between the two cities would allow commuters more choices than flying or a 3 hour drive.

"The continued population boom in the corridor, already home to about 2.3 million people, along with technological advances in transportation systems around the globe have spurred Albertans to back the project..."

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Jonelle Simons
Windermere Real Estate - Park City, UT
Too bad more people, and more cities don't embrace mass transit.  We here in Utah, in the Salt Lake area have trains, and they DO get used - a lot!  I think that designed right, public transportation can work in almost any city.
Oct 08, 2007 02:14 PM
Todd and Danielle Millar
Glenn Simon Inc. - Edmonton, AB
Nineteen years of excellence!
I agree Jonelle - I think the respondents in the poll are underestimating how much LRT will change their lives. Thanks for the comment!
Oct 08, 2007 02:34 PM
Todd Clark - Retired
eXp Realty LLC - Tigard, OR
Principle Broker Oregon

We have a light rail system here, but it is more like. "It's a bird, it's a plane...No wait it is just a slug"  It is faster to drive than it is to take that thing anywhere. The only time it is convenient is when you are going to a sporting even and don't want to figure out where to park.

Oct 10, 2007 05:37 PM
Todd and Danielle Millar
Glenn Simon Inc. - Edmonton, AB
Nineteen years of excellence!
Todd you are hilarious! Hopefully ours is better than that! (Note to self don't use LRT in Beaverton)
Oct 10, 2007 06:59 PM