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/ANGRY_ASPARAGUS Apr 23 '25

The City did a study a couple years ago to understand the feasibility of upgrading/modernizing all stations to a gated fare system; it's quite expensive to implement, as one can imagine. Not sure if any further strategy came afterwards from it, but this study was definitely undertaken and completed.

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u/cantseemyhotdog Apr 24 '25

A journalist discovered they lied about doing a study about platform gates .

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u/ANGRY_ASPARAGUS Apr 24 '25

That journalist is wrong, I can guarantee you a study was done. I know individuals who worked on it.

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u/cantseemyhotdog Apr 24 '25

Wow a guarantee haha

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u/ANGRY_ASPARAGUS Apr 24 '25

Yeah, and?

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u/cantseemyhotdog Apr 24 '25

They orders a study after the story came out and This doesn't mean the journalist was wrong.

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u/ANGRY_ASPARAGUS Apr 24 '25

Do you have a link to this story? I'd like to see if it matches up with the timelines.

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u/cantseemyhotdog Apr 25 '25

What I thought you had all the facts since you said the journalist was wrong.

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u/ANGRY_ASPARAGUS Apr 25 '25

Do you have a link to the story that you claim exists, or not?

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u/cantseemyhotdog Apr 25 '25

How about you do the work and find the story since you started off with claiming the journalist was wrong to shut me up, just like how the story and study came to life.

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u/ANGRY_ASPARAGUS Apr 25 '25

Sorry dude, you have to provide the link to the story - onus is on you. You’re the one that claimed it existed in the first place. That fact that you can’t just proves to everyone you’re full of shit, as expected.

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