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No amount of social engineering and virtue signalling is ever going to make a substantial number of Calgarians bike to work.

Yet that fact is inevitably ignored by city hall planners and moral crusaders on council who want to be seen as more enlightened than the rest of the knuckle-draggers who actually have discovered that driving to work is the only option given the geography of where they happen to live.

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This shouldn’t be a difficult concept for folk to comprehend — that is if they would remove their heads from the elitist sand they invariably insist in burying their collective noggins in.

Calgary is a young city, effectively little more than 125 years old. Compared to ancient cities such as Rome, London, Cairo and Paris, it’s a toddler, barely out of diapers. It is also a city unbounded by natural barriers or other major population centres.

Hence it was built for the modern world — which includes automobiles — and had so much room to grow. So we grew and grew and grew some more. Now the city’s spread is easily among the largest in North America.