Calgary’s Crack-Train — “Calgary’s city hall can no longer afford to ignore this issue. The city’s downtown is turning into a crime-ridden embarrassment, and that crime wave is riding the Crack-Train all the way into the residential suburbs.”
Calgary’s Crack-Train — “Calgary’s city hall can no longer afford to ignore this issue. The city’s downtown is turning into a crime-ridden embarrassment, and that crime wave is riding the Crack-Train all the way into the residential suburbs.”
He’s not wearing his mask!
Yes, but the overall stylish grey theme with his duds more than makes up for it.
Nenshi’s Utopian vision realized after 10 years of relentless property tax increases. Man I hope that loser runs again so he gets his fat ass kicked.
Wexit now!
Ugh, oh, ehm, nevermind.
Just wait a few more years, our leftist politicians will have it looking like Shit Francisco.
In related news, here is another black history month moment. Toronto Sun reports that a “rapper” in diverse Toronto has been charged as an accomplice to murder.
I’ve never seen this in the city of Calgary. We’ve gone from a few panhandlers to drug addicts sleeping, shooting up and smoking drugs out in public.
I have no respect for the Mayor. Never will now. He wastes money on unappealing art when he could’ve done something much more productive with it. I wouldn’t make any suggestions because I wouldnt know where to begin. It would fall on deaf ears anyway.
And then there is the trash bin fiasco, won’t even go there so, fuggetaboutit.
All he knows is how to raise taxes and spend it on trips and other stuff we don’t know about.
I love the rainbow bin system.
We used to have one truck a week now we get 2 1/2. They scolded us about carbon emissions while raising theirs 250%.
How much of the blue ends up in landfill now that China stopped buying our waste? And we pay more for virtue signalling to the green mafia.
We are ruled by lesser masters.
Alec,
They should just burn the trash! Others do it. This extortion is ridiculous, we pay enough taxes.
But if you don’t vote for him, you’re a racist.
Whether one is a malicious racist is the real question.
I never voted for him and never will. He squanders like a Trudeau.
I’ve got a suggestion….turn all that “openness” in City Hall into dormitories for the down and out. That way Druh and NenXi, Magliocca et al can monitor their progress up close and personal. Every day. Winter and summer. Put them to work policing their dorm and the City Hall premises, in and out. Wash the windows, too. Swamp the toilets and police for lice and cockroaches.
Yeah, Nancy, but are you ever riding the rails downtown? You may not be looking at Calgary after hours. Just saying.
Same shit devolved in Edmonton before I got the hell out.
Exactly, I know it’s dangerous after dark, I never go out alone after dark. Anywhere. I grew up in Montreal, it was scary there too. That was flasher city! It’s like watching an episode of
“Hill Street Blues”—remember that?
Downtown Calgary is now scary in the daytime.
Rode the c-train pretty much every work day from ’91 to ’17. I stopped riding when the personal space rules kept evolving for the worse. I was abdorbing too many clueless knapsacks to the lads or the torso, panhandled way too many times, including one dude who aggressively demanded to use my cell phone (I’m 6’2″, normally it is a significant deterrent to aggression, but not this time). He didn’t like it when I laughed in his face so hard I couldn’t tell him to eff off.
I had two pairs of trousers sliced with a razor over the years, in the back where I carry a kerchief, not my wallet. When I do ride I don’t see too many drugs, but a ton of drugged out riders. There are way too many dumbasses playing their portable stereos. I’m just not a fan of most forms of hip-hop and esoteric Afroislamoasian rap.
It pisses me off no end that I now have to pay the horrendous Calgary parking rates. That might be Nenshi’s secret plan, pushing money into the park plus system of usury.
However, to my mind, this is really symptomatic of the growth of the city, the economic collapse brought by the ongoing low commodity prices, reckless federal policies, COVID, and the damn Fentanyl crisis that no one seems to be able to get ahold of.
Our politicians are all horrible and they love to buy tracks and cars and hold press conferences like rail tycoons.
Unfortunately, Edmonton’s not much better. One silly councilor wants to jack up the cost of owing an automobile in the city.
Alec,
What? You had your pants slashed? That’s shocking! Lucky you weren’t hurt. That is very scary and one of the most awful things I’ve heard in awhile. Sorry this happened to you.
File this story under strange sights in the City:
Time and place was one summer day, on the C-train in Calgary, after rush hour, in the car that I was in, there was only myself and a long haired teenaged girl at one end of the train while I was at the back end, maybe 25 feet away.
Strangeness began when after a couple of stops, a guy got on and sat directly behind the girl. I found this strange because there were so many empty seats everywhere. My gut feeling was to watch him. I believed that he hadn’t seen me at the back. Within minutes of sitting down, he began to fondle the girl’s hair, unbeknownst to her, I believe. He continued that way, holding her long hair, without moving, until it was time to get off. The girl never noticed.
“Freaking weirdo!” I almost shouted, but didn’t, because I decided to mind my own business.
P.S.
This Calgarian was nothing compared to Montreal flashers. I think that place was the capital city for that activity.
Now you know why the suburbs of Houston don’t want mass transit.
Dat pic be raciss yo. Jess stop.
The biggest thing with the Calgary C train system is the constant peeing everywhere. It’s like India or something. Every stairwell, every corner of every station, is an (often frozen) puddle of yellow filth. Actually more distasteful than public drug use IMO.
One of the challenges of expanding your subway system is that when you bring a line out to the suburbs to serve suburbanites, you also bring the inner-city parasites with it. Here in Edmonton, when the subway extended across the river to the University, property crime in the area went up 30%.
I see something similar whenever I take the LRT really early in the morning. I often find rubbies or druggies or simply homeless people sacked out inside the terminal. Then there are the buskers who park themselves at the top of the stairs during the day.
There are times when I think I could use a pair of eyes in the back of my head.
I’ve seen what governments end up paying when they build housing for the homeless.
Giving each one their own train car might be cheaper.
Hey, ease up on the cops, they’re too busy tasering shinny players to bother with crack heads…..Covid!!!!! Besides law abiding citizens are easier to arrest than a minority wired on drugs, taser them and your cancelled, fired and then they go to work on you. It is not east vs. west, french vs english or any other trope, it is urban vs rural. i grew up rural, am urban for work, and despise most of it.
“Calgary Man” indeed.
Come on man. The cops are busy keeping you safe. Criminals are skating and they are dangerous!!
Well, I don’t know about this particular guy, but surely increased drug use goes hand in hand with job losses and an economy tanking. Trudeau is responsible for significant job losses out West. I do not think he fully recognizes the damage he is doing to Canada. I fear that many places in Canada will soon resemble those down and out cities and towns in the US where jobs have disappeared. Very sad.
I do not think he fully recognizes the damage he is doing to Canada.
I think he does and he either doesn’t care, particularly about Alberta, or he’s rejoicing that he has so much power over a such a compliant country. He, and Buttshead, would dearly love to return to the days of feudalism before the Magna Carta.
What could be a more fitting portrait of your tax dollars in action?
I really don’t think Alberta separating would change anything at this point. We’re all communists now.
I live in Calgary. The LRT “corridor” on 7th Avenue through downtown is a collector of disease, drugs and desolation that is now spread to the ends of each line (NE, SW, NW )and then via buses to the margins of the City. It used to be contained to 7th Ave, but since LRT times, it looks like NeXi’s home town…Tronna.
You knew you hit the big time when you had to step over drunken natives from Tsutina Reserve, asleep in front of the doors of Superstore across from the Shawnessy Station SW. Then there are the crack heads.
Place looks like Tronna.
The trains have been used by the floating population, if that’s the right term, for a long time now. Every mall, shopping district, and library in walking distance of a station has a clutch of downtown derelicts on any given day. I live downtown and I’m used to it, and I’ve never experienced, and rarely even witnessed, real trouble, but it can shake your nerve if you’re new to it.
Easier to give jaywalking tickets
While the Edmonton LRT can be creepy at times, it’s a vast improvement over taking a bus from downtown to the south side late at night. At least on the train, one might be able to put a bit of distance between oneself and a “random hitchhiker”.
The one bus that was on the route between downtown and Southgate late at night was, and I believe still is, the #9. Imagine being cooped up inside that with a bunch of RHs.
It’s bad enough that the clientele were often creepy, but the route is a milk run and there are stops every other block, or so I remembered. Try riding that one late on a Saturday night, coming home from a movie or a downtown social function. I made sure to sit with my back to the wall. That way, I only had to look in 3 directions to see what was going on.
That diabolical genius !
Who is shocked a mush brained meth head stays one step ahead of our gubmint union grunts with guns?
It’s not a fair fight.
I can just hear that ”pow colored boy” in the courtroom. ”I comes from a pow family. My Dad slapped me up ‘aw da time.’ I cants get a job.”
Guess what asshole. You Dad should have slapped harder!!
Yeah child abuse is awesome and effective.
Wakey wakey, folks.
This shit has been endemic all over the place, for many, many years, from sea to sea, from city to town, and even between gas stations and motels across this great land of ours.
I have seen it because I have gone out of my safe neighbourhood.
Nenshi types taking over ain’t the cause, but rather the result.
We slept and woke up to this shit. Trudeau, for shit’s sake!
Now what?
Always funny to see the pearl clutching crowd so easily worked up. How long Los Angeles had a “homeless problem” for? How is the political class doing in LA? How long has there been a “drug problem”, in how many places? How are the political classes doing in all those places, with all those problems that are never solved, and always multiplying?
Must be quite the blood bath for all the bureaucrats and politicians who have failed to solve these problems for so very long.
Or, could be, that people smoking crack on the train, guarantees re-election for Nenshi.
We exercised our God given inalienable right to White Flight from Calgary years ago!
Every so often make a short trip into the City, and thank ourselves every time for seeing the writing on the wall……………….
Fortunately … COVID has devastated BART (Bay Area Rapid Transit). Yes … ridership is down 90%. And has stayed 90% down.
https://www.kron4.com/news/bay-area/bart-reduces-service-even-more-as-pandemic-continues/
Yes … 90% decline in ridership. And guess what!? The riders are NOT coming back. Office leases are being broken. There’s a glut of vacant office space above the shit-stained streets of San Francisco. Because the vast majority of Big Tech Bay Area businesses are shifting to telecommuting.
How does BART survive … economically? Taxpayers! Well, there you go. The Local (sales taxes), State, and Federal taxes are propping up a massively expensive system where train “operators” (hint: trains are computer controlled) “earn” well over $100k/year. The employees are surly and nasty along with lazy. They don’t care. They don’t have to when the taxpayers and their UNIONS make them un-fireable.
The entire system should be cut back to a “novelty” train. What business can survive with a 90% decline in customers? Answer: Government “businesses”