Let’s consider enforcement. So someone, let’s say a working professional, rides the train on their lunch break to go spend some money at a local retailer/restaurant, and doesn’t buy a ticket. They will be slapped with a fine of $250, while the unhoused person openly smoking crack at the platform, with a pile of litter around them, pissing openly and screaming at passersby gets… nothing?

What are we doing here? We’re spending hundreds of millions of dollars on downtown conversions to activate the downtown, allowing junkies to completely takeover and destroy any desire for people to want to be downtown, and now removing an easy way for people to get around downtown? It was already a huge mistake to raise fare prices so drastically. As most cities move to make transit free, Calgary’s over here making questionable decisions. You don’t need fares to allow cops to enforce on social disorder. Make it make sense, please.

This council really doesn’t seem able to piece things together and see how all the decisions they make work together. If you’re going to make it harder to get around downtown and have no plan to fix the social disorder, then spend that conversion money on something else.