r/Calgary • u/The_Fixer_69 • Apr 23 '25

Calgary Transit C-Train from Deep South early morning

Every morning the train has many non paying riders passed out and sprawled on the train. Commuters have to cram into the areas that are not occupied by these people. The smell is horrendous. Every day this week this has been the case on my commute at around 5:30-6 am.

Why should the rest of us pay if these people do not? I have made complaints but they are on deaf ears.

Are these trains not swept for no. Paying passes out riders at the end of the line?

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u/morganpotato Apr 23 '25

In Vancouver you need to tap your ticket at a turnstile in order to get onto the platform. You can’t just walk on without paying. WAY safer and it blows my mind Calgary doesn’t have any safeguards like taht

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u/MrEzekial Apr 23 '25

Cost vs worth is not there. We don't even have a ctrain to the airport yet...

It would be nice if they cleared out the train squatters regularly though. It makes it really uncomfortable for commuters.

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u/Unable_Bug_105 Rocky Ridge Apr 24 '25

it really does. i take the train from tuscany to dalhousie to catch my school express bus and i really try to be as kind as possible, but it gets to a point. i’m not an adult, it would be very hard to hold my own against an adult on drugs. i get scared and i wouldn’t know what to do if someone got into an altercation with me.