The scope/scale of the Edmonton LRT in 1981 was tiny...a single leg starting from downtown past our two stadiums (football & hockey) and finally to a neighborhood in the northeast. Primarily built to coincide with the 1978 Commonwealth Games.

From Wikipedia: The LRT system had an estimated 18,220 weekday passenger boardings in 1978.

If I remember correctly fares ranged somewhere between 35-65 cents in those days.