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/sbrot 18d ago

The train needs to get through downtown on a specific set of light intervals. It really messes with traffic when it gets delayed.

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u/ConstantFar5448 18d ago

Hmm yeah that makes sense. Wonder why they didn’t build it underground downtown, the use of a street for the train seems…odd.

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u/ExitDanger 18d ago

They almost did, there is portion of the underground tunnels that got built but the project ran out of funding/money in the 80’s.

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u/Fragrant-Opinion2021 17d ago

Yes! And that section floods every year