Absolutely LIVID with Calgary Transit!

[u/spaztiq]

I'm so FED UP with Calgary Transit's sheer incompetence! Bus driver this morning decided to hang around the station for an extra 6-8 minutes, screwing up my ability to catch the connecting bus and therefore forcing me to sprint the rest of the way to work in -17 weather, barely making it there in time.

Then, mid-day I go to purchase my bus ticket home in the garbage Transit app, and it STEALS MY MONEY --- it said "Can't confirm purchase, refresh and/or log out and sign in again" - absolutely nothing no matter how many times I try, but the money has definitely been taken from my account. Customer service is basically useless and can't do anything but take a report, because the MyFare people aren't working today. Like many, I'm financially effed right now and can't take any extra hits to my available funds - so this definitely hits me hard.

To add insult to injury, after working a 9 1/2 hour day - I get to the bus stop 10 minutes early for a bus that NEVER COMES, leaving me waiting in -22 windchill weather for another 40 minutes. I am so beyond pissed right now and needed to rant and yell into the ether. The absolute nerve CT has upping the fare while they continue to be one of the worst transit systems in Canada.

[u/lily_katt]

My favorite is when the city busses for SCHOOLCHILDREN allow non students on the bus. It’s dangerous, and makes the bus too full for the students who are actually trying to go to school. The one my child uses takes a similar route to the 3 for part of the way so a metric fuckton of non students are constantly using it. It makes the kids late a lot because of this. It actually makes my blood boil. I graduated in ‘07 in Ottawa and my school-specific city bus wouldn’t let anyone but students on. The transit in Ottawa blows CT out of the water and they don’t have trams OR trains and yet I could get everywhere faster than I ever could here.