Smoking tobacco is prohibited on Calgary Transit station, but some new signs have caused confusion for bus passengers. New containers for disposing of cigarettes butts have gone up at bus zones near several C-Train stations. The new intention is to reduce the disorders associated with cigs. But the cigarette labels on the containers indicate a special smoking zone, which encourages passage users to gather around them and smoke tobacco, declared Ald. Diane Colley-Urquhart.
Mac Logan, the general manager of transportation, argued that despite the signs, smoking cigarette is not permitted on transit place.
“We need to sort of elucidate the signs. It seems to be indicating that it’s okay to smoke tobacco there,” he explained. “I understand the complaints so we’re going to go out and have a look at it.”