The government of Ontario is bilingual, although the province technically isn't. There are also nine designated bilingual regions in this province, including Greater Toronto. And maybe you can explain for us why seeing French is "kind of dumb."
So no TSP here unless the LRT is running behind schedule. Surprise surprise. I would have hoped for even some sort of weak TSP that doesn't provide absolute priority but shaves seconds here and there off light cycles to prioritize the LRT.
The GTA actually has more francophones than most of the designated bilingual regions in the province for the record. The government is bilingual to ensure minority language access is universal to provincial services. The same reason that Radio-Canada exists on the Canadian west or you can get CBC Radio in Quebec City.
Probably because most people in Ontario don't really see it as being necessary for their day to day commute. It just ends up making anoncnemts longer then they need to be.
Oh okay, so the French language distracts commuters from their best efforts in looking out the window or staring out of their phone while desperately avoiding making eye contact with anyone near them.
I wouldn't say it's a distraction. Apparently the reason why Metrolinx added it to go transit is because they got a compliant from someone who said that since all of the announcements were only in English they found it impossible to use or something like that because they only understood french. So because of that everything that Metrolinx is now building is now in both languages.
