haha, wow, simply stunning. Everytime you think CT is done screwing the city over- they just fire another curve ball right atcha!
Who are the monkeys running this organization??
Let's see, you don't have to pay the fare, and you can't really anyway unless you have change- but the platforms don't provide this. Meanwhile, you have trains that come at intervals that are pretty long (15 mins on non-peak I believe), that are jam packed, that rarely have security or people checking for tickets (I've been checked probably 1 time in the last 6 years or so and I've rode the train quite a bit). There is no staged or tiered payment system, they raise the prices based on some plan that likely originated prior to the recession hitting the city... the train has to stop at red lights through the core and takes forever to get through. If you drive to the train station you have to pay $3 to park? I carpool to work downtown with 2 buddies and save significant money by not driving to the station and taking the train, plus on the future cost savings of therapy bills required if I were to take the train.
MAYBE $2.75 would be reasonable if the fare actually meant something and was checked... how hard is it to put a turn-style on each platform so that you can't get on unless you pay? MAYBE the $2.75 would be reasonable if on TWO occasions I hadn't been standing next to somebody who decided to take a leak, on the train, and I had to stand in it or if I didn't have to be sandwiched between 15 people. We are not Tokyo.
The whole inflation argument is total BS, I really do wonder what "inflation" was for 2009 and would venture to guess there was next to none or even a recession in Calgary's economy.
Amazing.. / stop bitching I guess. My advice would be to find some folks that you can carpool with because the train is managed by nothing but morons, it appears.
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