Calgary Transit is looking at returning to enforcing the payment of fares. Transit has been bleeding red ink since the middle of March when self-isolation protocols came into effect. “We are at a beginning of a turning point where we’re looking at re-instituting, re-focusing a dialogue with customers to ensure that fares are being paid June 1,” Acting Transportation General Manager Doug Morgan said.
He was responding to a question at a city council meeting Monday morning. At a previous meeting, Morgan told council members that Calgary Transit could face a potential loss of $89 million in revenue this year. “We’ll restart some of our revenue programs that we had suspended during the COVID(-19) response in order to do as much as we can to