“The Better Way” just got worse!
The TTC (Toronto Transit Commission has been touting that the TTC is the better way. That’s a questionable promotion at its best: inefficient schedules, overcrowded vehicles, late arrivals, erratic service, rash price increases, long wait periods. These have been areas of complaint about the TTC for many years. Some people in Toronto have no choice but to use the TTC, whether it is because of their income, their not having a vehicle, not having a driver’s license, whatever.
The TTC has never been the better way for me. Fortunately, I have a vehicle and a driver’s license. Additionally, I earn enough that I can afford a taxi or an Uber if I need ‘public transit.’ I would never use the TTC. I have used the subway system and the ‘red rocket.’ Even with my limited use of TTC transit, I think it is a lousy service, costly and inefficient.
I am not averse to public transit. I use GO train service whenever I must travel to Toronto from my suburb. I choose to do so because of the horrendous traffic congestion of Toronto. But to consider use of the TTC to get to Toronto…puleeeeze….the suggestions has more ludicrousness than Swiss cheese not having holes in it.
WiFi cancellation
A few years ago, the TTC, in partnership with ROGERS Telecomm, provided transit users with free WiFi service. Many riders must have found this service gratifying and beneficial. I would have it appealing as wait times would be alleviated with email reading and Internet usage. Most likely, many other transit users would say the same.
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And now the better way, once again, becomes lip service. As labelled on the streets, BULL SH*T.
Sure, the rationalization and justification would run along the lines of ‘too costly,’ ‘too expensive’ and the alternate would be fare increases. Does any publicly run organization know how to operate effectively, efficiently with reasonable expense. Public transit should be operated on a citizens’ benefit basis, not a profit basis. Management that cannot keep costs at a reasonable should have their positions reviewed. Public transit should be subsidized by all taxpayers as it is likely that the majority of transit users are lower income wage earners. They need whatever help that can get. The TTC doesn’t think that way.
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What do you think?
