> I wondered about that too. I don't think Calgary has absorbed any suburb communities yet (well, maybe Chestermere, but I don't know if that was a separate community before) although Edmonton has absorbed a few, IIRC. Maybe Kaz! could help me out here? Anyway, that would help to explain why so few cities appear to be bigger than Calgary.

Yeah, Edmonton has a LOT of suburbs. When added all together, the greater Edmonton area has over a million people. Without counting the suburbs though, Edmonton only has about 600 000 or so. Let's see....if memory serves (so don't trust me on this) we have Spruce Grove and Stony Plain to the west, Sherwood Part to the east, St. Albert and Castle Downs to the North, and Leduc (which is atually a lot farther away then the other suburbs; it might still be considered its own town) and the international airport to the south. I think that Capilano is also around somewhere close, but I'm not sure in what direction. Of course, most of the people in the suburbs work in Edmonton. At would seem that during rush hour, if there are 1 000 000 people on the roads, the road's limit is around 990 000. It slows substantually, but we're not usually at a dead stop ever (except if there's an accident).

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