Time-lapse ride on the LRT train through Calgary

[@writer125]

Excellent, excellent video. You kept the camera focussed on the track ahead and didn't shift it all over the place. Full length screen shot, plus the window out the front of the train was clean, so that helped. Calgary is a great city, from what I saw in your filming. Thanks for the video.

[@SuperboyOtherAccount]

Damn I love how calgary changed so much especially downtown where the City Hall Library wasn’t in construction yet

[@srp723]

On behalf of Calgary's transit geeks, thank you and awesome work!

[@SPS148669]

Awesome! Someone did the same thing to Edmontons train too which FINALY goes from one end of the city to the other end. I did a partial timelaspe on calgaries.

[@DocentUSA]

Nice video. I like time lapse videos. Thanks!

[@georgewashington8338]

this is beautiful, south florida needs this

[@34airflow]

That's great that this service has been successful. Ignorance led me to believe that people from a province with lots of oil would be unlikely to take rapid transit of any kind. Fascinating.

[@craigusselman546]

The C-train runs on mostly windpower Edmonton has their lrt as well.

[@craigusselman546]

Also The Alberta city of Medicine Hats buses run on natural gas rather than diesel since its plentiful in the area.

[@Giordinosaur]

As a former Calgarian and a user of Skytrain, when I visit Vancouver I like Skytrain better. Personally, I think Calgary should adopt how Vancouver uses Skytrain, in the fact that it turns into a subway downtown. As I'm sure you've seen, traffic has to stop for the C-Train, which is okay in the suburbs, but it creates traffic downtown, and C-Train has to stop for traffic downtown too, causing further inefficiency.

[@thestuffz]

very nice. i see now how the whole system works. we stayed in university and were at the stampede grounds

[@D347HtoSpanky]

Best part of the entire film: [1:40]... That triumphant, excavating bastard... Live on my friend.

[@Jaymonius]

I remember the days when Whitehorn, Brentwood and Anderson were the last stations. :p

[@wii1245]

Jaymonius nee too.

[@Ezdduf4kuZ]

Yes Yes Yes, whew what a video or should I say what a ride. we have a similiar video posted here featuring the skytrain ride from it's beginnings to the terminus station also another time lapse video featuring the billowing fog slowing creeping and crawling over the downtown area of Vancouver...reminds me of an invasion by the enem,y (ha). Fog dosen't find it's way inland or at the higher elevations of metro Vancouver but it can usually be found by the water and on the nearby beaches.

[@YoLikeRyder]

Really neat to see the traffic signal give priority to the trams. I wish the stubborn MBTA would to that here in Boston.

[@KigoNico]

The reason we haven't built a somewhat similiar skytrain is because: 1. We are doing the West LRT expansion 2. Calgary is a small city compared to Vancover. I'd agree on building a skytrain. I visited and rode one too, but we have a smaller population and Vancover is HUGE. Plus city hall might be considering the tunnel under 7th Ave

[@SnakeCorps01]

Did you have trouble convincing the train personnel to allow you to put on a camera and film this? i really want to do something like this for a project I'm doing and I'm worried that they wont allow it. I'd even be content filming it from the "cockpit," if you will, but I'm wondering how lenient they are. I'm in NY.

[@tifeldiege]

I am a vancouverite, is the C-Train better than our Skytrain?

[@fdoleron01]

que cidade linda e organizada! qual o nome?

[@FastCarsNoRules220]

Calgary has an okay train system, sometimes I like to take it just for fun. But for me, the Singapore MRT train system is a lot more efficient (I grew up in Singapore from 1999-2010), trains run both underground and on elevated bridges and don't interfere with road users. There are even platform screen doors at the stations so that people don't jump or fall onto the tracks. Though I can't really blame Calgary, since making something like the MRT in Singapore can be very expensive.

[@shaemae123]

If you dont know the stations just lookin at em, you dont ride enough :)

[@Alex365497697]

I don't understand if it is a tram or a subway ;)?

[@calvinrovinescu6166]

Can someone record a time-lapse of the blue line (202)

[@Opinionatedguy1989]

it's crowfoot. olympic plaza is now closed .

[@SPS148669]

Sky train is better now that they have the Canada Line as C-train has at grade crossings and street running while Sky train runs exlusively on bridges and subway.

[@TheEthalon]

If that were real time, how fast was that!!

[@tifeldiege]

If you calgarians don't know the skytrain, search for timelapses

[@calvinrovinescu6166]

You can see at 2:59 the peel off for the 8th avenue subway

[@uzzfra7975]

Thank you for saying this! I never knew and been search for days now.

[@lucus1959]

I lived in Vancouver from 96 to 03. Calgary transit is woefully inadequate compared to Vancouver

[@TheMapler1]

Come to Edmonton, it's LRT is pretty good, plus Edmonton oilers keeps winning

[@craigusselman546]

True AS a Calgarian Van does have better transit Although Calgarys is improving Torontos kicks the ass of both when i visited there it blew my mind.

[@mrrobot5963]

@@craigusselman546 Damn I thought the Vancouver SkyTrain is better than our Toronto subway

[@lawsonrox]

I think Calgary has a was better system then Vancouver, it's less expensive an way more pedestrian friendly, and probably cheaper to build

[@craigusselman546]

Im a proud Cowtowner but vans is better but Vancouver is more compact so its easier to service Calgary has improved a lot in the last 20 years.

[@chickenmuffin]

Nicely done but come on... it could have used some music!

[@lucus1959]

Little Ralphys Train

[@The17RJ]

This is old some of those stops dont exist anymore and some arent there

[@craigusselman546]

Theyve been renovated for four car pick-up.

[@34airflow]

Talk about rapid transit!!

[@minion986]

Nice job. Check out my edmonton lrt timelapse.. you should of added music

[@AsloAso]

Bullet-Tram

[@lucus1959]

Dude! Vancouvers system is way better trust me!

[@calvinrovinescu6166]

I think the c-train is pathetic and isn't car traffic friendly with all the road crossings. Yet it's a light rail system. Light rail is supposed to be cheap and improperly designed

[@markop5837]

The cars are faster than the train