TTC Failures

Amiga2000HD

I live down the street from Yonge & Davisville, so I'm thinking I can sit my camcorder on one of the tables by the window in the Tim Horton's and point it so it looks across the street from TTC headquarters and let it rip. Or, take it up a notch and bring my MacBook Pro and connect it with a FireWire cable and do a live-to-web ATU 113 coffee break cam...

Sound good?

Rampant AV

I love it!

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They say most of your brain shuts down during cryo-sleep. All but the primitive side, the animal side. No wonder I'm still awake.

Riddick.

The G3 Man

O___O Im 16, i took a video today, submitted it... Wow they get worse and worse, do they not WANT students to take the bus, i can tell you a lot of what they makes comes from students ..

Morgan

Adrian.

Hey can you put it on Youtube or something? I would really like to see it!

Adrian.

Seriously man, you should do it! Every bit of evidence counts.

The G3 Man

Sure, just gimme till i get home, school blocks youtube O__O.

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The G3 Man

OMG DO IT DO IT DO IT DO IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Morgan

MazterCBlazter

As an employee, I seek out the best possible wages and benefits with the best working conditions.

As a free enterpriser, I want my workers to provide me with the most production with the least cost.

As a human I want the highest income I can get with the least risk, time and effort possible. Everyone seems to want the best for their interests without consideration for others. Most are jealous of the good fortune of other people.


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In the opinions of those here, how much should those transit drivers be paid?

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mrjimmy

You can be sure it will be less than what they are making, no matter what they do for a living...

Sonal

To be honest, I wouldn't really care how much they were paid if the service was good.

That's not all the transit driver's fault, but by my rough recollection, there has been either a strike or the threat of a strike roughly every 3 years or so since I started taking the TTC 20 years ago. Consequently, whatever sympathy Toronto residents have for the TTC drivers dries up pretty fast.

Every time there is a strike, the TTC loses a significant number of riders riders. That's what did it for me--thanks to the strike in 1999 I discovered just how much faster and easier it was to drive to where I was working at the time. That was my 3rd strike (literally) and there have been more since, including a wildcat strike. I can't think of a major union that goes on strike more than the TTC.

What all of this points to is that clearly, the union does not care about the riders. Nor do they care about the transit system as a whole, because if the TTC loses riders and loses revenue, how can service get better?

And those pictures, those videos... more proof that they are not there to give the riders, the people who pay both the fares and the taxes that fund the TTC, good service. But anyone who takes the TTC regularly has experienced that. Ever wait 40 minutes for a bus that's supposed to come every 10 minutes and then have 3 all come at once? Ever run for a bus and have the driver shut the door in your face? Ever been at Finch station at about 6 o' clock on a weeknight when there are regularly enough people to fill 3 buses but they stop running most of buses so only one shows up and it's a mob scene trying to get one because the next one is not going to be there for 30 minutes?

Every time there is a fair hike, the TTC loses riders. Granted, it's unreasonable to expect fares not to go up, but when rates keep going up, when there is a continual threat of yet another TTC strike, the service continues to be poor.... seriously, I don't care if it's the union's fault or management's fault or the government's fault (and it's probably all of them) but frankly, for a city of Toronto's size and growth, we have a truly terrible transit system.

That the union keeps striking for higher and higher wages to the determent of this system does not endear me to them. I don't know what a TTC driver makes and I don't care what a TTC driver makes, I just know that the service is not what it should be for a city like this and the strikes do not help anything.