[crs1026]

Teenagers who want to be viral Tik Tok stars and film themselves there or climb on top of the train.

This stupidity does indeed outweigh the number of individuals who put themselves at risk due to mental health problems.... but to date, it happens far less in Toronto than in other large cities. Last time I took the El from the Loop to Midway airport, the train had to stop three times to eject people riding on the roof... different gaggles of kids each time.

- Paul

 

[T3G]

As far as I know, they exist to stop people from falling down into the gap between cars.

I am not sure what @SubHuman saw a few years back, but those gates have been there since the cars were first delivered, and came on every car class ever built. They are not at all a new phenomenon.

 

[SubHuman]

Yes, it looks like there's always been something there. But I know the time I saw it happen at Islington a few years ago, the guy somehow must have certainly got in there very quickly. I had just walked past him after exiting the train, and he didn't look right. Then I heard someone yell, looked back and saw the guy between the cars as the train was moving out of the station.
If these things are "gates", maybe they're relatively easily opened?

The time at Bay station (I think it was on June 12th, late in the morning, as I recall where I was going), I again did not see how the person actually got there. I was on a train that had stopped. There was the usual inaudible announcement, later followed by another in which I could hear "Bay station". I glanced up, and briefly between the passengers who were standing I saw a face looking back into the subway car I was on from the space between it and the next one.

 

[Mihairokov]

I am not sure what @SubHuman saw a few years back, but those gates have been there since the cars were first delivered, and came on every car class ever built. They are not at all a new phenomenon.

And here I was thinking everything was going to shit because of the homeless!

 

[PL1]

This stupidity does indeed outweigh the number of individuals who put themselves at risk due to mental health problems.... but to date, it happens far less in Toronto than in other large cities. Last time I took the El from the Loop to Midway airport, the train had to stop three times to eject people riding on the roof... different gaggles of kids each time.

- Paul

I was in NYC in January (booked before the orange takeover), and on several occasions watched kids grab the drip strip above the doors and ride the subway on the outside for a few metres. Extremely stupid, but clearly very common there. Happily I haven't seen this stupidity here yet

Edit to add: this was on the subways in Manhattan, several different stations

 

[PurplePinky]

I was in NYC in January (booked before the orange takeover), and on several occasions watched kids grab the drip strip above the doors and ride the subway on the outside for a few metres. Extremely stupid, but clearly very common there. Happily I haven't seen this stupidity here yet

Coming soon to the TTC!

There are a lot of Tik Tok reels showing all sorts of nonsense in the NYC subways.

 

[81-717]

and on several occasions watched kids grab the drip strip above the doors and ride the subway on the outside for a few metres

Like this guy on an R46? Me thinks there's no way the guard in charge of opening/closing the doors wouldn't see someone blatantly cling onto the outside of the doors, and would immediately alert the driver to prevent the train from departing.

 

[Admiral Beez]

I was in Manhattan all weekend (stayed at 6th Ave and 56th) and throughout my subway use visiting the WTC, Union Square market, Central Park, etc. noticed almost no vagrants and zero beggars or crazed junkies on the subway, near subway entrances or tbh almost anywhere. I don’t know what NYC or the MTA is doing, but kudos. We were on the backend of an amazing cruise to NS, Nfld and Greenland that we booked pre-Trump. I won’t be returning to the US as a tourist until post-Trump and any legacy anti-Canada sentiment are gone.

 

[PL1]

I was in Manhattan all weekend (stayed at 6th Ave and 56th) and throughout my subway use visiting the WTC, Union Square market, Central Park, etc. noticed almost no vagrants and zero beggars or crazed junkies on the subway, near subway entrances or tbh almost anywhere. I don’t know what NYC or the MTA is doing, but kudos. We were on the backend of an amazing cruise to NS, Nfld and Greenland that we booked pre-Trump. I won’t be returning to the US as a tourist until post-Trump and any legacy anti-Canada sentiment are gone.

Perhaps it's summer? I was there in January, and I can assure you, all those "demographics" were present

 

[hawc]

Women stabbed on streetcar today. Lovely.

Suspect outstanding after woman seriously injured in stabbing on streetcar in Toronto’s east end: police

Police are searching for a male suspect after a woman was stabbed while on a streetcar in Toronto’s east Chinatown area on Monday afternoon.

www.cp24.com

That's what happens with these rolling homeless shelters that are like dragnet fishing for crazies along Gerrard and Queen lines in particular.

Start enforcing the by-laws and get the nut jobs off the transit.

 

[generalcanada]

Women stabbed on streetcar today. Lovely.

Suspect outstanding after woman seriously injured in stabbing on streetcar in Toronto’s east end: police

Police are searching for a male suspect after a woman was stabbed while on a streetcar in Toronto’s east Chinatown area on Monday afternoon.

www.cp24.com

That's what happens with these rolling homeless shelters that are like dragnet fishing for crazies along Gerrard and Queen lines in particular.

Start enforcing the by-laws and get the nut jobs off the transit.

why is your assumption that he was homeless....

 

[T3G]

why is your assumption that he was homeless....

Because no housed person in the entire history of humanity has ever committed a crime, duh.

Women stabbed on streetcar today. Lovely.

Suspect outstanding after woman seriously injured in stabbing on streetcar in Toronto’s east end: police

Police are searching for a male suspect after a woman was stabbed while on a streetcar in Toronto’s east Chinatown area on Monday afternoon.

www.cp24.com

That's what happens with these rolling homeless shelters that are like dragnet fishing for crazies along Gerrard and Queen lines in particular.

Start enforcing the by-laws and get the nut jobs off the transit.

Which bylaw prohibits homeless people from using the TTC? The only ones I can think of are the ones restricting loitering, people lying down, or causing a disturbance. How do you know that the person in question was doing any of these things prior to the attack? Were you there?

And what to do with all these "nutjobs" once they're off the TTC? If the city and police don't do their jobs properly, what is to stop them from either attacking someone in the street, or getting right back on the next streetcar?

Big words are nice, but reality is a lot more complex...

 

[6ixGod]

I’m just going to go ahead and leave this documentary here. I think it’s very eye opening and the plight of what’s happened in Seattle and San Francisco should be a huge warning sign for Toronto.

 

[APTA-2048]

I’m just going to go ahead and leave this documentary here. I think it’s very eye opening and the plight of what’s happened in Seattle and San Francisco should be a huge warning sign for Toronto.

So does this piece touch on solutions for income inequality, an eroding social safety net, and increasing housing unaffordability? If not, I’m not going to waste my time watching another “let’s gawk at how terribly these people live” videos.

 

[nfitz]

Women stabbed on streetcar today. Lovely.

The prejudgement here is horrific.

Also, there's multiple pedestrians injured every day in the city. Why are we highlighting the rare injury on transit.

We'd save a lot more lives in this city by banning cars, rather than banning the homeless. (assuming the death rate among the homeless doesn't change).