My big complaint is more against the system than the riders.
I chose to live near the inner city so that I wouldnt have to drive every where, could walk a lot of places and take transit when convenient.
The problem is that transit is now never convenient. I live TOO close to the innercity that by the time the train (or bus) gets to my nearest stop, its almost impossible to get on. Then you get angry suburbanites who dont want to squeeze to make extra room who tell you to wait for the next train. Well, 3 trains have already gone by so Im getting on this one!
The problem is that Calgary Transit added new stop further to the south but never increased the capacity of the trains. Add the commuters from the bedroom communities who drive to the train stations and youve got trains that are way over capacity. Same thing goes for the buses.
The city needs better planning. Why encourage suburban sprawl by improving transit to the bedroom communities? If anything, make the developers pay for the transit to new communities. Anyways, thats a whole other rant.
Calgarians also need to realize your personal space while on a train or bus is getting a lot smaller than it was a few years ago. Ive lived in Toronto and Montreal and travelled a lot and the density of people packed onto transit is a lot higher that here.
I cant believe the bus drivers in this town who still wont let people stand in front of the yellow line. Fock! Its minus 30, theres twenty or more people waiting at the bus stop and you wont let on more people because theyd be past the yellow line. Dude, you dont drive the bus in a small hick town no more.
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