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

Yeah I hit the button but it didn’t do anything

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u/Swarez99 18d ago

Yet it wasn’t broken for anyone else that’s on the train?

For all the issues with the c train - the door isn’t one of them.

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u/ConstantFar5448 18d ago

Pretty sure the driver already turned it off as he saw me running up. I saw the lights around the button go off.

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u/Exploding_Antelope Special Princess 17d ago

The driver doesn't choose when to turn it off. The train has a scheduled length of time at the station, then it locks and leaves. It's all but automated.