Calgary is doing a lot things right from an urban planning perspective, and near-by Edmonton is the gold-standard for progressive zoning laws among Canadian urbanists. But unfortunately Alberta is a very car-brained province, as are all provinces in the Canadian prairies.

I’m not sure why that is. It’s a very working class region so many people may need pickup trucks for work which probably has something to do with it. Plus the vast distances between population centres make train travel between most cities economically unfeasible and car ownership more attractive, so it might have something to do with the geography as well.