Calgary vs. Minneapolis (downtown, skyline, metro, better)
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Downtown-Calgary seems larger, but Minneapolis might be more vibrant Scenery-Calgary (Mountains!)
Economy-Minneapolis Nature/outdoors/recreation-Minneapolis Mass transit-Not sure
Shopping-Minneapolis
Neighborhoods-Minneapolis
For mass transit? It can't be close. Calgary's rather extensive light rail is the most ridden in North America. Metro-wide its transit ridership is higher than all but a handful of American metros (DC, NYC, maybe a few others).
For mass transit? It can't be close. Calgary's rather extensive light rail is the most ridden in North America. Metro-wide its transit ridership is higher than all but a handful of American metros (DC, NYC, maybe a few others).
Looks pretty close to me.
Ridership Numbers (2012):
Calgary (CT): 84 million
Minneapolis (Metro Transit): 81 million
The light rail has a much higher ridership. Calgary Light rail weekday ridership is 285,500. While Minneapolis and Calgary have roughly the same total ridership, by percentage Calgary is almost 3 times higher. Calgary's metro population is 1.2 million (1.1 million urban area), Minneapolis' metro population is 3.3 million (2.9 million urban area). So Calgary manages to get the same riders for a fraction of the population.
Minneapolis for me, but I won't count out Calgary as a good place to live. Also, Calgary has an amazing skyline and visual presence for a metro of barely over one million. Props.
I think Minneapolis is better in the downtown/neighoourhoods/shopping department and Calgary in the scenary/outdoor and I do find it much easier to get around in Calgary (although I only really go as far as the University) with its C-train. And it is a smaller city.
I quite like the warehouse district in Minneapolis. The old industrial history is very charming But then I do also like the pretty distinctive grain elevators around the wooden Canadian praries. And I agree with the previous poster that the building does look out of scale (It's a Foster building I think?)
But the real tie breaker for me is that the best skiing (and hiking) in North America IMHO is within a day's drive away, and that hockey is king!
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But then I do also like the pretty distinctive grain elevators around the wooden Canadian praries. And I agree with the previous poster that the building does look out of scale (It's a Foster building I think?)
