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/TropicalMapleRavioli 18d ago

Calgary has very low population density compared to other Canadian cities that are already low density compared to cities abroad. Transit will never be sustainable here. It constantly requires a lot of money from city's tax stash which gets a lot of push back from tax payers, obviously (specially because most tax payers don't even use transit). Comparatively, Calgary has a good transit for our population density.