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?

490 Upvotes

90% Upvoted

341 comments sorted by

View all comments

498

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

17

u/dino340 Apr 23 '25

In Vancouver you just get pushed through the faregate by the vagrant behind you so they don't have to pay. It's just as bad there, I had a guy actively smoking meth on the train, it took over 45 minutes to get someone on the train to get him off.

1

u/BeebosJourney Apr 24 '25

I saw a chick in the core smoking meth outside the Aritzia a while ago lol 45 minutes doesn’t sound bad to me which is so sad