No recommendation for restricting transit stations to fare-paying customers: report

A report to the city of Calgary’s infrastructure and planning committee did not recommend closing transit stations to only fare-paying customers, as some city councillors had expected. In fact, the report's opening lines bluntly said, "There is no correlation between the provision of fare gates and increased transit safety on existing systems with fare gates." The study look at other cities like Toronto and Vancouver, as well as a few in the U.S., and determined a closed system not only is