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| TTC: Take The Car |
Really? What?
A portion of of the subway (and mind you the important part - the one that brings you to the city centre where all the fun is) is scheduled to close and remain close from 6 am Sat Jan 29 until 6 am Mon Jan 31 to undergo track installation. If you can count you will realise that this is TWO full days. Although ''frequent bus service'' (read: no service or freeze your ass in the cold for 45 minutes waiting for the next delayed bus to arrive) will be available all along the routes shut down by the maintenance. Comes at a perfect time too - come this evening, temperatures are forecast to fall between -15 to -17 for the next two days.
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| Texting 'n driving: work benefits? |
For its complex size, Toronto amazingly still retains a quite decrepit subway system. And while some metro systems are complex and large enough to accommodate for track re-routing because they have other lines passing similar stations (check: New York, Paris, London), Toronto has a sad total of 4 routes. The main exchange stations are few and far between: Sheppard-Yonge, Bloor-Yonge, St-George and Spadina. For us lucky Torontonians, this means delays can be a
real bitch. We simply cannot hop out to take another route but maybe fall back on the reliability of bus service. Which, if its anything like the no. 97 (runs up and down THE main street of Toronto) is like no bus at all.
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| Good night |
Yet another complaint surfaced recently in an article in the Toronto Star. The article responds to pictures of a TTC driver apparently texting while driving. If your like me - Id be on my toes if I had to take those substitute buses over the weekend. And the TTC just continues receiving bad flack. Whomever covers the PR sure has it cut out for them. TTC spokesman Brad Ross even asks that ''people do not take pictures...I’m not saying we wouldn’t use photographs sent to us (for an internal investigation), just that we don’t require it.'' But I do think you need it Mr. Ross. I'm sure the matter would be investigated nevertheless
but pictures do speak thousands. And pictures SHOULD keep coming in until these things stop happening. A report can be typed up and filed and never seen again. But a picture - well that, in the right hands, can become your worst PR nightmare :)
2 comments:
well TTC service is suppose to be improving with Transit City http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Transit_City.jpg
look how convenient travel will be if it's ever completed!
but Rob Ford wants to get rid of it and waste the $8 billion already spent on it :\
I guess the TTC is going to be shit forever.
it sure will stay shitty for a long time coming. all the laziness and short cuts that the TTC has taken before is now nipping us in the bud. The metro system should have been laid down a while ago.
I was just as eager as everyone else before to see the Transit City come to fruition.
You can see Im still waiting..
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