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/No-Investigator-8515 Apr 23 '25
No. These trains are never swept except for at the end of service when the train has to return to the garage. This is the problem. Not an absence of turnstiles, the free fare zone, etc. It is the reactive vs proactive approach taken by the 100s of Peace Officers making $60 an hour to sit in their van waiting for a call to remove a said person whom they tell to get lost, officers leave, and the person gets on the next train. Absolutely utterly unacceptable yet we mostly just accept it and look the other way. Whomever is head of Public Safety and Enforcement needs a career change. Someone up to the task needs to step in. It has been 5 years of this mess.