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CALGARY TRANSIT INTRODUCING MORE ROUTES TO DECREASE OVERCROWDING

FILE - The 19 16th Ave North bus stops at the University of Calgary on it's
route in Calgary on Wednesday, March 22, 2017. (Chelsey Harms, 660 News) ©2017
Chelsey Harms/The Press

By Lisa Grant

Posted Sep 21, 2024 10:40 am.

Last Updated Sep 21, 2024 10:42 am.

Have you had any trouble finding parking at a Calgary Transit LRT station
lately?

Many Transit riders have reported experiencing overcrowding on buses and CTrains
— or missing out on a parking spot at an LRT station these last few weeks.

You likely noticed a while ago there weren’t any four-car trains due to
construction at the Haysboro Storage Facility, but Calgary Transit has been
running more trains frequently.

It also freed up over 900 reserved parking spots in the summer of 2023, but
spokesperson Amanda Bradley tells 660 NewsRadio there are no plans to free up
any more anytime soon.

As for reserving a spot, it’s $87.50 per month, but for many, that — in addition
to a Transit pass — is too tough to shoulder at more than $200 a month.

So how is Calgary Transit trying to handle the overcrowding?

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WATCH: CALGARY STUDENTS SAY OVERCROWDING A MAJOR ISSUE ON CITY TRANSIT BUS ROUTE

Calgary students say overcrowding a major issue on city transit bus route
Some students at Calgary’s Lord Beaverbrook High School are sounding the alarm
about overcrowding on city transit busses, both to and from school. Jayden
Wasney reports.
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Bradley suggests finding a bus route that can take you to the station — and
they’re making changes to make it easier.

“So typically, things kind of routes used to just be like a wheel spoke and
they’d all go downtown. And so, if you weren’t at a train station, you’d have to
make your way to a train station first, but we are trying to introduce more
routes that go across town,” she said.

Bradley says the introduction of more routes, or extending routes in some cases,
will help take people off busy routes.

She says those being introduced are going across the city instead of toward
downtown.

“We’ve introduced routes, or extended routes, to actually take people off of
other routes, because those other routes might be really busy,” Bradley
explained.

“So for example, the Route 8 tends to be really busy, tends to be overcrowded,
and so we’ve introduced some other routes that we’re hoping will take people
from Route 8, just to reduce that crowding.”

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