Got a legit chortle out of this gem: "Cmmr Osborne asked how many tickets the TTC actually issues today, and management answered about 100 per week. That number provoked debate considering that there are about 100 Fare Inspectors."
In light of massive public expenditure on the maintenance of infrastructure necessary for personal automobiles, not to mention the climate crisis, I've long thought that free commercial parking in cities is an abomination. If you happen to live in Toronto, you may wish to send a message to your councillor asking that the city implement a commercial parking levy for the support of the TTC.
Sad prediction: A pedestrian will most likely get hit by a bus at Kennedy Station in Scarborough. The scene is madness down there and this was on a very cold Saturday morning. I hope I'm wrong but the TTC has to take control of things before someone gets hurt.
My friend uses a wheelchair to get around the city by the subway. 2-3 times a week she posts about another elevator outage. The other day, some construction on the platform made it impossible to pass with a wheelchair.
Saw a new Q&A episode of #TTC drop from @LRRMTG and wondered why I didn't see the call on Mastodon. Lrrned very quickly that @James_LRR really craterhoofed it. Help him @Graham_LRR , I have burning Q's that need A's (for next time)!
And yeah, I get it, another Torontonian bitching about the #TTC, how common, how banal. But fucking seriously here, I’m late going into work every day, I’m late coming home. I have to -budget- extra commute time to account for the TTC’s shittiness. This is a transit system that refuses to be efficient and prompt.
What’s the solve here? Not rhetorical, I’m actually asking. This can’t continue, it’s a great contributor to the city’s dysfunction. It’s embarrassing.
I have updated my @ttcnotices bot to pull updates from #TTC instead of Twitter, updates (routes and accessibility) should now be in near real-time :coolcat:
For my other bots: I also worked on pulling from alternate sources (RSS feeds) in the event scraping from Twitter is no longer possible.
TTC management’s lack of interest in consistent reliable headways is outpaced only by their active undermining of accurate wayfinding.
This paper wayfinding page is taped to the outside of the pole, not protected from the elements, and is posted at a different stop from the one in the diagram. See how many errors you can spot!
Despite that it is somehow still an improvement over the prior situation. Yikes.
Toronto transit advocate, guru, and lie-detector Steve Munro has created an amazing gift for the transit advocacy community: an index to every topic covered in TTC board agendas and reports, going back to 2020. I’m sure partly to make his own research easier, but the net effect is a huge win for every transit advocate.
"OPINION: Riders have been conditioned to expect mediocrity and accept worse. It’s unlikely that 2024 will be the year anything changes." #DougFord#Ontario#onpoli#Government UGH
ICYMI, e-bike fire onboard a Toronto TTC subway caused rider serious injuries and shut down the line. How safe are ebikes? Imagine an onboard fire during busier commutes? - hope it doesn't happen
@jfmezei not how it’s going to work. In fact this program has started already with YRT and other GTA transit agencies so we can see how they did it.
If you take TTC then transfer to GO, what you will pay for the #GOTransit will be the standard rate minus the #TTC amount you paid for. So the cheaper fare essentially gets deducted from the bigger.