Passengers wait for the train at the 3rd Street SW station in Downtown Calgary on December 14 2021.
Council voted in favour of new amendments that will toughen the city's public transit bylaws to ensure people are using the city's system as intended.Passengers wait for the train at the 3rd Street SW station in Downtown Calgary on December 14, 2021. Calgary city council amended its public transit bylaws on Tuesday in an attempt to improve rider and operator safety.
Marcia Gonder, the City's acting chief of public transit safety, said the changes to how loitering is defined and to prevent non-destination transit users, were introduced so that officers are properly placed to ensure they're dealing with individuals who aren't using transit for intended purposes." was an issue in terms of not using transit for its intended purposes," Gonder said.
Gondek added that council will soon get an update on research about how Calgarians are feeling about the city, but she can already say that concerns with transit safety in the city have slightly dropped.
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