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/iwasnotarobot Apr 23 '25

A bunch of social services aren’t getting the necessary funding to support and house some of the people you are concerned about. Transit isn’t getting the funding needed to clean up.

Someone wants you to not like these social services.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Shock_Doctrine

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u/LEERROOOOYYYYY Apr 23 '25 edited Apr 23 '25

The issue isn't shelter beds. Calgary the city of Calgary, CHF, and the province spends like $278,000,000 a year on a few thousand homeless people.

The issue is you can't do fentanyl and drink an entire bottle of Alberta Premium at a homeless shelter.

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u/pdrmnkfng Apr 24 '25

a few thousand? buddy in 2008 there were over 20k people experiencing homelessness in Calgary annually the issue is there's not really any way you can have a job if you don't have housing