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Oct 17, 2026
speaker_5SOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
You know, they're designed to take significant accidents, but absolutely has to be ruled out that there's a risk to them.
speaker_4CORRESPONDENT
Calgary Transit says its compressed natural gas buses are subject to regular maintenance, and it will be reviewing CNG operations to ensure any additional safety measures needed are put in place.
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Brendan Coulter, CBC News, Calgary.
Neil KumarHOST
And that is The World This Hour.
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Even internationally, I mean, CNG is widely used in many, in many countries.
Andrew JohnsonCORRESPONDENT
Calgary Transit is now launching a review into the safety of its close to 350 CNG buses.
Andrew JohnsonCORRESPONDENT
There are hundreds more in service across Canada, many in Hamilton, Ontario, and here in BC around Vancouver and Victoria.
Mark HolleranSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Victoria.Experts we spoke to say despite what happened in Calgary, they remain confident in the safety of compressed natural gas bus fleets.
Jordan PrenticeCORRESPONDENT
Sarah, I'm here at the scene in northeast Calgary, one day after the horrific collision claimed the lives of three, and questions are mounting about the city's natural gas buses.
Jordan PrenticeCORRESPONDENT
Calgary Transit says it will conduct a review of its compressed natural gas operations to determine whether additional safety measures are needed.
Jordan PrenticeCORRESPONDENT
The announcement comes after a chain-reaction collision involving multiple vehicles and two transit buses Thursday afternoon.
Jordan PrenticeCORRESPONDENT
Police say the natural gas tanks on one of the buses ignited, triggering an explosion and a massive fire that killed three passengers.
Jordan PrenticeCORRESPONDENT
The president of Calgary Transit Union says while there have been no previous concerns about the design of these buses, the cause of the explosion must be determined.
speaker_12SOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
The big question, I guess the uneasy part for us, is, how did it happen? Like, a, a public vehicle tran- that can transport 60 or 70 people can, can burn, uh, that quickly.
speaker_12SOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Uh, you know, it, it, the design has to be where that cannot happen.
Alex KwanSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
You know, they're designed to take significant accidents, but absolutely has to be ruled out that there's a risk to them.
speaker_4CORRESPONDENT
Calgary Transit says its compressed natural gas buses are subject to regular maintenance, and it will be reviewing CNG operations to ensure any additional safety measures needed are put in place.
speaker_4CORRESPONDENT
Brendan Coulter, CBC News, Calgary.
Neil KumarHOST
And that is The World This Hour.
Jordan PrenticeCORRESPONDENT
Calgary's mayor offering words of support for those impacted.
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Our deepest sympathies for those individuals and their families impacted by today's very shocking incident on Calgary Transit.
Jordan PrenticeCORRESPONDENT
The cause of this devastating incident is still in the early stages of investigation.
Jordan PrenticeCORRESPONDENT
Jordan Prentice, Global News.
Alex WilliamsHOST
We're not going to take too much of your time.
Alex WilliamsHOST
I just thought it'd be interesting to talk about transit and what happened with Calgary Transit last week.
Alex WilliamsHOST
To join me in this conversation is the genius, Willem Klompenhauer, who knows a thing or two about data, transportation, and public transit.
Alex WilliamsHOST
How are you doing, Willem? I'm all right.
Alex WilliamsHOST
Yeah, well, you know, I admire you, so we'll keep it in.
Alex WilliamsHOST
I'm maybe going to give the lay of the land here for what happened last week.
Alex WilliamsHOST
There was a lot of confusion because basically the GPS data tracking Calgary Transit buses was not being shown on apps like the Transit app and... like transit five five this came to my attention uh in the calgary transit riders discord server uh somebody asks hey can we like talk about this what's happening here i hadn't taken the bus that day or the day before so i didn't notice anything that was off because i wasn't using the system you would think that other people using the system would notice it i uh Eventually, when I did make a video about it, I did get a lot of comments saying, oh, I'm glad this isn't just me.
Alex WilliamsHOST
I thought I was going crazy and that it was just my feed that wasn't working.