Tegan and Sara honoured with temporary Calgary bus route name
Posted Oct 12, 2022 7:25 pm.
Last Updated Oct 12, 2022 7:40 pm.
Calgary Transit is going to temporarily rename a bus route in honour of Calgary-born platinum artists Tegan and Sara.
Tegan and Sara Quin are promoting their upcoming TV series High School, and the city is renaming Route 19 to Crybaby to honour the release.
“We took a lot of public transit growing up,” said Sara Quin in a statement. “We took the CTrain, we took buses, we walked a lot – we love public transit. It was how we got to school; it was how we saw our friends.”
The twin stars were born in Calgary on Sept. 19, 1980, and used transit to attend Crescent Heights High School, which was a part of the twin’s formative years.
Crybaby is also the name of their 10th studio album, which is also being released later in the month on Oct. 21.
The route runs along 16 Avenue north, which starts at the Rundle LRT Station, and continues on through 44 stops to Lions Park LRT Station.
A Calgary Transit bus with the name of the route “Crybaby” on the front. (Courtesy of Calgary Transit)
The Quins held a screening of their Amazon series High School at the Calgary International Film Festival (CIFF) on Sept. 29.
Parts of the series Highschool have been shot in Calgary, and it is based on the memoirs the twins published in 2019.
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The route will be renamed Crybaby starting on Oct. 14. to align with the series premiere on Amazon Freevee in the U.S.
All eight episodes of the series will be available on Amazon Prime Canada on Oct. 28.
-With files from Rachneet Randhawa
