So the Marathon will be this Sunday 6th, it will start near yonge and sheppard but wait..the TTC who claim to be the better way, will not be running until hours after the Marathon has already started, meaning we will fail to show tourists that we have a viable public transportation, instead showing them Grid Lock at its best and nothing but congestion of taxi's making pollution to get people to the starting line.
EPIC FAIL..
- Toronto Unions never fail to impress at the correct times..
Pope visit - garage strike
summer tourism - garbage strike..
when is Toronto - going to act like a city of value and show it?
here is the Typical - short sighted answer:
But TTC spokesperson Brad Ross told 680News there hasn't been any serious discussion about it.
"There are costs involved. While there are a lot of people who tend to race, typically our ridership on a Sunday morning for the subway would be very low, and I think it would just be cost prohibitive," said Ross.
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Hey it could be worse. They could have followed the path of our town council and canceled the event outright.
Yep we had an annual massive fireworks display that brought 30000+ people to our small community. After having to arrest 9 people last year, all on minor drunk charges, the Mounties wanted the town to pay to have a SWAT team on standby. Council thought it would be a great idea to cancel the event, rather than telling the Mounties that there is no serious problem and shove your SWAT team ....
Sorry to hijack for a minor rant and I do agree. Sometimes you need to pay a bit of overtime and have the mass transit up and running for a major event. Seriously though, don't ever let the Police try to convince you they need to have Storm Troopers in place.
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Your issue is another way the union thought hmm.. double over time and charge for readiness in case someone spills a drink - they will swarm him with box of tissues.
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Well the TTC specifically isn't well-known for its stellar customer service. There's some moves to change that, but culture-change like this is an uphill batter.
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Well the TTC specifically isn't well-known for its stellar customer service. There's some moves to change that, but culture-change like this is an uphill batter.
It's in the union contract that they don't have to offer good customer service.
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Hey it could be worse. They could have followed the path of our town council and canceled the event outright.Yep we had an annual massive fireworks display that brought 30000+ people to our small community. After having to arrest 9 people last year, all on minor drunk charges,
Toronto is so not world class, can't even hold a event like this properly. Transportation system is falling way behind and like mentioned in previous posts, unions aren't helping. Went to Washington DC for a week a while back and LOVED, yes I'm mean loved the Metro subway system there. Left the car at the hotel for most of that week.
Don't get me started on the waterfront not to be.
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Toronto is so not world class, can't even hold a event like this properly. Transportation system is falling way behind and like mentioned in previous posts, unions aren't helping. Went to Washington DC for a week a while back and LOVED, yes I'm mean loved the Metro subway system there. Left the car at the hotel for most of that week.
Don't get me started on the waterfront not to be.
Exactly. And yet it was voted for streetcars instead of subways.
Street cars are so old way, put it all underground. New York no street cars. Hmmm.
Exactly. And yet it was voted for streetcars instead of subways.
Street cars are so old way, put it all underground. New York no street cars. Hmmm.
LRT is not a streetcar.
And in the areas where LRT was proposed, a subway is not justified because the density doesn't work.
That said, there ARE areas in Toronto where a subway does make a lot of sense, but those areas were not discussed.
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