C-Train Blue Line in 4 Minutes (Time Lapse)

The Blue Line (Route 202) of the Calgary C-Train, from 69th Street to Saddletown in under 4 minutes!
You can watch real time footage of this line by checking out this playlist: • C-Train: Blue Line (Ro...

[@TransCanadaPhil]

"Please stand clear of the doors, as this train is trying to depart." Fantastic, love the ctrain.

[@theextreme1]

Lol yes

[@Lidolymax]

Yeah I love the ctrain

[@peabody1976]

I would still love to see the 7th Avenue corridor buried and run as a subway, and the surface street retained as a transitway for buses. it would definitely allow for greater capacity with more trains possible and longer platforms to future-proof the system.

[@joncalon7508]

Never going to happen. They will eventually decouple the Red Line from the Blue Line, burying the Red Line underneath 8th Avenue, as the downtown core was at capacity for the number of trains in the peak periods. The blue line will not be leaving 7th Avenue. As well, most of the bus routes have been moved off 7th Avenue as well...Only a few remain today.

[@Trackside_magpie_7535]

@@joncalon7508 I thought the green line was gonna use the tunnel

[@joncalon7508]

@@Trackside_magpie_7535 the Green Line will get it’s own tunnel on a mostly North-South Alignment through the downtown core, turning east in the beltline. The tunnel under 8th Avenue South is for the Red Line when it needs it’s own line through downtown due to capacity constraints on the 7th Avenue Surface Line. Though with Covid changing how people work, the demand to do that may have evaporated.

[@AlbertaGamer]

That would be awesome if the train was this fast except for the only waiting for 0.1 seconds for passengers to throw themselves through the doors.

[@Trackside_magpie_7535]

Lol

[@catelinakennis8690]

Stations (In order of direction) 69th Street SW Sirocco 45th Street SW Westbrook Shaganappi Point Sunalta Downtown West-Kerby 8th Street SW 6th Street SW 3rd Street SW Centre Street City Hall Bridgeland/Memorial Zoo Barlow/Max Bell Franklin Marlborough Rundle Whitehorn McKnight-Westwinds Martindale Saddletowne Hope this helps, Reece Martin!

[@anabellevillanueva9543]

Wow

[@Jaymonius]

Back in my day, Whitehorn, Anderson, 69th St Station, and Brentwood were the last stations, haha.

[@jonnybobbo]

Back when those were the last stops, blue line didn't go west past downtown, with the City Centre train stopping at 10th street west station

[@darrenfare7026]

Brilliant video have used the C Train a few times myself a great example of what a cities mass transit system should be !

[@lukeshields9171]

Darren Fare I agree, it is a good system, I just think that the c-train needs to more places

[@GsunnyGGamer]

C train is a good example of how transit should never be. 74 people have died from 1985 to 2017 due to the C train. It should be grade separated. Its too slow and unreliable, u just never know when some guy who hasn't had their morning coffee is gonna hit the thing and delay everyone. NYC, London, Montreal, Boston etc. those are examples of what mass transit should be

[@nousername5673]

@@GsunnyGGamer + Vancouver

[@Ultimate747CAT]

I love the music sooooo much it is the best what is the music called

[@smiwey]

The c train passed my apartment when I was walking home from school. Wow

[@Merle1987]

It's crummy how it runs in mixed traffic downtown. Plus most of it seems to go through areas with nothing whatsoever on either side. They need to put up some buildings on the route. Even the stroad/suburban hellscape part seems like good land use planning compared to the wasteland that is the majority of the route.

[@pavld335]

This is a great video.

[@TOKYOSMITH]

Nice work! I really enjoyed it.

[@anshsinghsuri]

i haven't been to the other end of blueline opposite from saddletowne, damn they got an underground station

[@abpsd73]

When was this recorded? There is a building the train passes that I did work in back in 2015 when it was vacant, your video still has the previous tenant's signs on the building.

[@cascade_mountain_railfan]

Love the underground station

[@keepsmiling9462]

Excellent ❤️❤️❤️!!!

[@YourrandomComrade]

The transit way station are not necessary but there pretty cool 👍

[@joncalon7508]

Chris, what was the reason for the video change at Martindale? Did the train turn back early?

[@chrisvazquez7]

No I ran out of room on my iPhone! I had to come back a different day to record the last station. 🤣

[@Trackside_magpie_7535]

It looked like it was drizzling a bit outside

[@mapleLIFE]

I havent taken the blue line in FOREVER

[@remaG_xolboR_eht_auhsohJkraM]

Nice

[@PJGKoopman]

Nice video! Which music did you use?

[@chrisvazquez7]

Paul Koopman Music credit is immediately after the video in the outro, just before my Coming Soon segment.

[@paulkemnater9216]

nice vid !

[@uzzfra7975]

What is the music?

[@francoisarseneault8671]

Like your work.

[@chrisvazquez7]

Francois Arseneault Thank you! :)

[@metropolitantransit7276]

Was it a SD160?

[@mapleLIFE]

did you sit in the front????

[@joncalon7508]

Can't, legally, unless he's a CT Employee. Odds are likely he got permission to put a GoPro in the cab window, but then had to spend the trip with the rest of the people.

[@josealbertobecerraledezma4799]

Awesome!!

[@timelessmusicfamilymusic9175]

Wondering what city this is?🤔

[@chrisvazquez7]

Timelessmusic Familymusic Calgary, Alberta, Canada

[@timelessmusicfamilymusic9175]

@@chrisvazquez7 thanks, the video didn't indicated it. Beautiful city🌇👌

[@lukeshields9171]

Do one of the red line pls

[@chrisvazquez7]

It's on my to-do list. :)

[@purplerabbit638]

Why doesn't the ctrain go underground when it's downtown?

[@SwanDigEnt]

there is a tunnel under city hall...but they found water seepage issues made it unfeesable at the time..this was when they first built the c train so there may be tech to work around it now. also of note...there is a hidden station built under city hall. When I lived there, there was differnt colored flooring infront of the escalators...that was supposed to be the stairs down.

[@nousername5673]

Edmonton’s does.

[@mapleLIFE]

I feel sorry for those people in the houses at 3:20. The train would be so noisy!!!!

[@wii1245]

mapleLIFE i haven't ridden the C-train in 12 years!

[@kaydencedelon6972]

People chose to live there

[@YYCFilmer]

@@kaydencedelon6972 while that is true but those houses were there before the train so

[@Mayhem_5555]

No, the C-Train is actually quiet, it's not like those big and loud freight trains that run on diesel, or those subway trains in New York. Once you live in that neighbourhood for a while, you get used to the train.

[@chrlzislime]

@youtuberman I went to Calgary and ride in the train but now I’m in Edmonton

[@wii1245]

Reminds me of the Sega CD game, "Loadstar"

[@RoadToTheCup]

I'd rather see the true video than a time-lapse video. Please repost with FULL VIDEO!!

[@chrisvazquez7]

Wayne Coolidge I have a playlist with all the footage in real-time. It’s not stitched into one long video though but hopefully that will suffice for now. Thanks for watching! :)

[@randallbanks1589]

Are the traffic lights tied to the trains? I seems that the trains didn't wait for a second after a station stop.

[@chrisvazquez7]

Well, I edited the video to eliminate stops. Also, the train would wait at stations until the light was about to turn green. I'm not sure if the lights are synchronized with the trains at all.

[@exile220ify]

Outside of the downtown core, CTrains get priority - if a train is coming, the lights change to give the train priority. Downtown on 7th Ave, it's all street-level, so CTrains do have to stop for red lights there.

[@joncalon7508]

On the 7th Avenue corridor, the traffic engineers do make a valiant attempt to time the traffic lights such that the trains can travel from one station to the next without a stop light. Doesn't always happen though.

[@oooo-ii5sr]

edmonton n calgary's LRT's are garbage....ever heard of a skytrain 😂

[@Absolute_Zero7]

Skytrain is nothing compared to TTC Subway, learn to pick on someone your own size.

[@joncalon7508]

At least our system doesn't cost billions of dollars for a few km worth of track. Skytrain is neat and all, but the fully elevated/buried line does add a huge amount to the cost of construction.

[@nousername5673]

@@joncalon7508 Quality > quantity; + SkyTrain is quite extensive and is always being expanded and there are long-term savings (energy, no need to pay drivers, etc.) due to automation.

[@deric8]

@@nousername5673 And Calgary has a quality LRT system that moves more passengers than Vancouver's Skytrain. Both systems are good as they are adopted to their built forms