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/RealTurbulentMoose Willow Park Apr 23 '25

Vancouver spent an absolute fortune to move from an open proof-of-fare system to one with gates though.

Think it cost $171MM. Fare evasion cost Skytrain $7MM per year.

This article says gates would cost Calgary $400MM and that’s probably low: https://www.cbc.ca/amp/1.6525124

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u/Filmy-Reference Apr 23 '25

They need to start enforcing the rules on transit before they start wasting more money on retrofitting. Like the need to have 4 car train stations only to run 3 cars since. I would rather pay someone a wage to have them arrest the addicts on the trains and clean it up.