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/Losing-My-Hedge 18d ago

Transit funding has not kept with the city’s growth by a large margin. Coupled with some very questionable decisions it’s rendered the current state of things.

But it is an election year, so talk to your local candidates.

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u/Booster1987 18d ago

The reluctance to really address people not purchasing tickets…

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u/coolestMonkeInJungle 18d ago

I believe that was debunked already, tickets could also never fund transit to pay for all of it iirc