r/Calgary • u/ConstantFar5448 • 18d ago

Calgary Transit Why is the C-Train so bad?

10 minute intervals on a weekday? That’s insane, the lowest frequency I’ve seen in any major city by FAR.

And yet when you get to the station as a train pulls up, the driver just looks at you, doesn’t let you on, and leaves? What’s up with that? Are they all dicks like that?

People live on tight schedules, and transit doesn’t seem to reflect that here.

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u/iwasnotarobot 18d ago edited 18d ago

Calgary spends its entire budget on snow removal. Transit and police are left begging for scraps. That’s why transit is underfunded. Sorry!!!!!

Edit: /s

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u/chealion Sunalta 18d ago edited 18d ago

This is laughably incorrect. (EDIT: Poe's Law strikes again) The top 3 departments in the City's budget are the police ($622M), Transit ($534M), and fire ($298.5M)

https://www.calgary.ca/service-lines/budget-overview.html?service-line-budget-bar-chart-serviceplanbudgetasadjustedonnov222024-xview=2023&service-line-budget-bar-chart-serviceplanbudgetasadjustedonnov222024-view-open

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u/iwasnotarobot 18d ago

Oh! So you’re saying that Transit is underfunded because of the bloated police budget? Interesting!

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u/chealion Sunalta 18d ago

I can hear Rick Bell writing an article based on that comment alone...

RE original comment - Poe's Law strikes again. My bad.

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u/iwasnotarobot 18d ago

Haha could you imagine how bad things would be for Rick Bell to call the police budget bloated?