The scale Calgary is impressive, but Alberta just doesn't have the same imposed restrictions as backwater BC.
Denver is a big city & metropolitan area in its own right, but somehow Calgary has more 50 story office towers than Denver. Dallas has more tall buildings than Calgary and Denver, combined.
Dallas is a landlocked_city like Calgary and Denver.
https://www.colorado.com/articles/getting-colorado-getting-around
3 Major Pieces of Infrastructure that will Transform Denver & Colorado https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DlyO-RdWChQ
The $6 Billion Transit Project with No Ridership https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TkI6Fmet4FE
Of course there needs to be more things built close to the stations to increase ridership.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Denver_RTD_rail_stations
Silverliner V trains are used on the RTD's A, B, G and N lines. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silverliner_V#RTD_Commuter_Rail
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CN_Tower
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Canadian_Place The BMO. Unlike Chicago, Toronto has no 100 story office towers.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bentall_Centre_(Vancouver)#Three_Bentall_Centre A 32 story BC office stump.
Being from small Vancouver, its amazing that Canada even has one megacity. Toronto is certainly a big city on a lakeshore like Chicago is. Montreal isn't allowed to have buildings as tall as Melbourne, let alone NYC. Montreal has allowed only one office tower to be over 50 floors and a few residential towers in the 60s.
Calgary has more 50+ story office towers than Denver and Perth. No 40 story office tower exists in BC. The office section of the Harbour_Centre doesn't even have a 30th floor and the revolving restaurant is closer to being like 35 floors up. However, with the overall building being 481 feet, it would be equivalent to 40 floors, if the windows went right up to the top. The flagpole has no windows, but the flag would be like the equivalent of being 48 floors up.
Not just Toronto & Montreal, but Edmonton and Seattle have longer underground train stations than backwards, congested Vancouver.
The Iron+Bridge, Oak+Street+Bridge, Knight+Street+Bridge & the Arthur+Laing+Bridge should all have a bus+and+bike bridge built next to them. The extremely inadequate Lion+Bridge should have already had a bus and train tunnel close to it.
Just like Washington State, the Alberta part of Canada isn't stunted like BC is.
"The Calgary Metropolitan Region is home to Canada's second-largest number of corporate head offices among the country's 800 largest corporations.[14] In 2015, Calgary had the largest number of millionaires per capita of any major Canadian city.[15] In 2022, Calgary was ranked alongside Zürich as the third most livable city in the world, ranking first in Canada and in North America." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calgary
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calgary#Transportation
Unlike Vancouver, Calgary & Seattle are able to improve transportation infrastructure without taking lanes away from the narrow bridges.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seattle#Transportation
Calgary has more 50 story office towers than Denver or Minneapolis.
Calgary and Edmonton Compared https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7h9HgvwQxJc
