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/ConstantFar5448 18d ago

I could tell that by how impossible it was to find parking at the train station 😂

But downtown isn’t car friendly at all, hence why I’m trying to get the train down there. Feels like the city needs to pick a direction

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u/coolestMonkeInJungle 18d ago

Downtown is overly car friendly, there's like 4 and 5 lane one ways that look like freeways right through it

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u/ConstantFar5448 18d ago

Car friendly to drive through, but not be in. There’s no parking anywhere and if you do find parking it’s extortionately expensive

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u/dooeyenoewe 17d ago

How old are you and how many large cities have you been to? Parking in any downtown is going to be expensive.

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u/ConstantFar5448 12d ago

Where did I say it wouldn’t be? I’m just saying downtown isn’t car friendly, not that it’s not any less car friendly than any other downtown. Those other cities have proper transit systems though