How Calgary moves.
The transit network, on the record.
Calgary Transit is the city’s second-largest service after roads, and most of its hardest decisions land in plan documents (RouteAhead, the MDP/CTP monitoring reports, council budget reports) that almost nobody reads. This section is an institutional record of the network — the Green Line, the downtown free-fare zone, service delivery, the funding gap — every figure traceable to the underlying primary source, read as a public service rather than a balance sheet.
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Service & reliability
2Frequency, coverage, on-time performance, and the routes Calgarians actually ride.
Projects & expansion
1Capital projects: Green Line, MAX BRT corridors, LRT extensions, station upgrades.
Fares & affordability
1Fare structures, low-income pass programs, and the cost of a ride for Calgarians.
Accessibility & access
Walking-distance rules, mobility access, and how land-use decisions reach the bus stop.
Safety & enforcement
Public safety on the network: incident reporting, transit peace officer activity, and policy.
Governance, plans & budgets
3RouteAhead and Calgary Transit's institutional record: strategy, status, funding, and asks.
Latest updates
- explainerJune 10, 202614 sources
Green Line LRT — cost, funding & what's redacted
How the Green Line's cost actually evolved — $52M/yr (2013) → $5.543B (2020) → $6.248B revised Phase 1 (2024), with the $705M increase entirely the City's own top-up — plus an inventory of exactly what the public is not allowed to see.
- explainerMay 8, 20269 sources
Calgary's downtown Free Fare Zone
The 7 Avenue corridor where Calgary Transit has been free since 1981 is under active Council review. Verbatim NoM, verbatim admin recommendation, multi-year ridership, decision history, and circulating claims with primary-source rebuttals.
- document reviewMay 6, 20263 sources
RouteAhead, recovery, and the funding gap
Three Calgary primary documents trace the Primary Transit Network from collapse (2022) to mid-recovery at 53% of planned hours (2023) to the 2025 ask: $15 M op + $45 M cap + $500 M facility.
- trackerMay 6, 20262 sources
PTN service-hour delivery — watch state
Calgary Transit delivered 1,135 of 2,135 planned Primary Transit Network service hours in 2023 — 53% of the level needed to put 1 M Calgarians within 400 m of frequent service. Refreshed when the next primary lands.
Source shelf
Primary documents we keep returning to. Underlying PDFs and feature services only — strategy hubs and landing pages are rejected at build time.
- Calgary Transit2023
RouteAhead — Calgary Transit's 30-Year Strategic Plan
The 30-year strategy. Pivots from coverage-first to a frequency-first Primary Transit Network — every claim about future service levels lands here.
- Calgary Transit2024
RouteAhead Annual Status Update 2023 (IP2024-0581 Attachment 1)
Annual reporting against the 30-year plan. PTN service-hour delivery (Figure 7), 159-strategy progress register, and the $1.42 average-fare figure all originate here.
- City of Calgary — Infrastructure & Planning Committee2025
RouteAhead Annual Status Report 2024 (cover memo, IP2025-0381)
May 2025 cover memo to Council. Recommended the $3M growth-pressure top-up and prioritised the RouteAhead 10-Year Implementation Plan; source for the 101M-trips 2024 figure.
- City of Calgary — Infrastructure & Planning Committee2022
MDP/CTP Monitoring Report 2022 (briefing, IP2022-0983)
Third Council monitoring briefing on the Municipal Development Plan + Calgary Transportation Plan core indicators. Establishes the planning-system context every transit funding debate borrows from.
- City of Calgary Open Data2018
Calgary Transit Routes — Open Data dataset (hpnd-riq4)
Landing page for the Calgary Transit Routes open-data dataset. The underlying feature service powers route counts and route-shape derivations across the section.