Calgary Transit
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| Slogan | '1884 - 1894 Onward!' (Not primary slogan) |
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| Parent | City of Calgary, Transportation Dept. |
| Founded | 1909 in its current form, 1884 to 1894 for the original Calgary Transit system. |
| Service area | Calgary, Alberta |
| Service type | Bus and light rail |
| Routes | 160 |
| Stations | (LRT only) 10 on the NE leg, 9 on the NW leg, 6 on the SW leg, 11 on the South Leg and 9 downtown. Route 201 has 28 stops. Route 202 has 25 stops. |
| Fleet | 965 buses 160 light rail vehicles |
| Annual ridership | 107.5 mil (2013) |
| Fuel type | Diesel for Bus, Electric (600 vdc) for LRT |
| Director | Doug Morgan |
| Website | Official site |
Calgary Transit is the public transit service which is owned and operated by the city of Calgary, Alberta, Canada. In 2015, an estimated 110 million passengers boarded approximately 1,176 Calgary Transit vehicles.
What would eventually become Calgary Transit began as the Calgary Street Railway on July 5, 1909, with twelve electric streetcars serving what was at the time a city of 30,000. This streetcar service expanded throughout the next thirty years (including the Depression) until 1946, when the company was renamed to Calgary Transit System as electric trolleybus vehicles began replacing the local streetcars. Eventually the electric trolley lines were phased out together — to be replaced by diesel buses. In 1972, CTS assumed its current name of Calgary Transit.
Between the early 1970s and 2000, Calgary Transit had a three tier bus service. Standard bus routes were identified with white bus stop signs. Blue Arrow bus routes, marked by blue signs, provided limited stops, and all day service to suburban neighborhoods from the city centre. Express service was indicated with red signs and provided extremely limited bus service to the far reaches of the city during peak hours only. These tiers have been slowly phased out, since Calgary Transit began expanding C-Train lines and capacity and implementing BRT service.
In 2012 Calgary Transit planners presented mayor Naheed Nenshi's council with a tentative 30-year plan 'RouteAhead' to enhance the capacities of Calgary Transit.
On December 13, 2012 Craig Hardy, became the one hundred millionth rider of the year a record never reached in its 103-year history. He received free transit for a year and was celebrated by mayor Nenshi.
On May 25, 1981, Calgary Transit became one of the first transit systems in North America (behind Edmonton LRT which opened in 1978) to operate a light rail system — the C-Train, on which construction had begun in 1978. The original line (referred to internally as the Red Line, and externally as Route 201) ran from Anderson Station (just north of Anderson Road in the south end of the city) to 8th St SW in Downtown Calgary.
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