81-717
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I didn't say all are, I said it's possible even when you least expect it.
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Mihairokov
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Sure, and it's possible that the 505 grows wings or Eglinton XTown opens tomorrow, but it's still disingenuous to imply such a thing.
81-717
Active Member
It's disingenuous to equate something that physically cannot happen to something that has actually happened before.
Mihairokov
Senior Member
Someone individually attacking you on the TTC after you ask them to be polite is not equivalent to being randomly jumped by a group of teenage girls. I'm exaggerating on purpose, but you're sorely reaching for straws with these comparisons.
I get tired enough coming to this thread weekly and finding people moaning about other citizens and calling them all sorts of things rather than maybe addressing the root causes of why these people are they way they are, but it seems excessive to imply that one thing may happen to you because of one entirely unrelated event from years ago, especially when that thing happened to the same kind of person that people here love to complain about with their unsubstantiated anecdotes of how "scary" and "dangerous" riding public transit is because someone who visually looks like something they don't like is within thirty feet of them. Hard pass. We live in a city and need to do a better job of respecting everyone else that lives here, too, regardless of how we might feel about their situation. Posting videos of incidents on the TTC without context is akin to pearl-clutching and only serves to not only degrade our services but act as ammunition to further inflate things like enforcement budgets. 6ixbuzz and their ilk do enough of this garbage and I don't really need to read it here, too, IMO.
DSCToronto
Superstar
This was passed at TTC Board today. Could it be connected to the early (maybe) departure of Mr Leary?
TTC1.13 - New TTC Policy - TTC CEO Misconduct Complaints
Status: Receivedturbanplanner
Senior Member
Cool, but at one point close to 50% of riders feel unsafe on the TTC, and even their own counsel told someone that it's their fault for being pushed onto the tracks because they were travelling alone.
When the TTC themselves say travelling alone is foolish are we going to pretend there isn't potentially a safety issue?
Source on the Jails being over capacity, which results in people who should probably be locked up getting bail.
If you want me to I can PM you some articles about habitual offenders getting 5th or 6th chances.
This is the guy who gets attacked by a crackhead every third time he rides the TTC (anecdotally) so clearly his anecdotes are all trustworthy.
The car thief story is true, though. Not that I'd want to base our bail system on an outlier case of one offence caught on video and going viral on twitter, but it has its problems.
Alleged Ontario Porsche thief granted bail for 2nd time in a week | Globalnews.ca
The woman made headlines last week after Peel police identified her as a suspect in a brazen theft in Mississauga which was caught on camera.globalnews.ca
Why put words in my mouth?
I think the burden of proof people put on me is insane. What will you ask me to prove next?
Most of the time I take the subway is in the evening hours, but even in the day I run into issues.
There are thousands of "security incidents" on the TTC every year (check the open data site)
Streetcar: 1722 incidents in 2024, and almost 1000 *ASSULTS* on the subway system
And these are just the ones that are reported and resulted in a delay.
Open Data Dataset - City of Toronto Open Data Portal
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Open Data Dataset - City of Toronto Open Data Portal
open.toronto.ca
Last time I was on a man was yelling how he'd smash peoples heads in. Do you want me to film the crazy guy? Will you pay for my time off?
But here are some photos of some of the incidents I've had to deal with delays on.
I've only had a few incidents were someone personally targeted me, but in my experience it's fairly regular to come across someone clearly unwell and threatening violence.
Even if people for some reason think I like to make up my experiences, the thousands of confirmed incidents by the TTC themselves seem silly to ignore.
Mihairokov
Senior Member
Here's a peek at my unlawful, unruly, awful 504 trip tonight, brimming with the scum of the earth and truly terrifying people. What a miserable, terrible city we live in, filled with people I loathe because I view them as beneath me.
I'm just kidding of course, everything was fine and there wasn't any issue at all. Millions of people take the TTC every day without incident, like I did tonight.
81-717
Active Member
Photoshop? or Ai?
(yes, I too am exaggerating on purpose just like you)
smh there we go again, back to the loathed square oneThis is funny:
Could a federal election derail funding for Toronto's new Line 2 subway cars?
The $2.3-billion purchase of a new fleet of cars for Toronto’s Line 2 subway was made in November, tentatively promising some relief for the aging line.www.thestar.com
Toronto has 25 Liberal MPs and 0 Conservatives. No wonder they couldn't find any Toronto Conservative MPs to commit. The only MP whose riding has a touch of subway line in it is Melissa Lantsman, whose hobby is harassing Nate Erskine-Smith, not supporting the TTC.
(PP also evading giving an answer to whether he'll jeopardize this or not, just like the feds kept dragging their heels committing funding for nearly 2 years before finally folding 2 months ago)
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nfitz
Superstar
Given the years of reports of complaints we were hearing - and apparently no process to deal with them ... well let us be calling this one Leary's Law.
Steve X
Senior Member
Maybe TTC should create a Plan B: Line 2 shutdown plan.Photoshop? or Ai?
smh there we go again, back to the loathed square one
In order to preserve to available trains for service, rush hour service would be prioritized.
They can initially cut the operating hours to 6am-10pm weekdays and 8am-7pm weekend with the remaining period using buses. Remove the bike lanes and create a bus lane instead.
As the trains continue to fail. Close off the outer end of the line leaving service between Keele and Woodbine. Other East-West routes will receive express and additional service to help relieve the Line 2 replacement buses.
The 3rd stage is to run the trains only in rush hour with full busitution at all other times. Hopefully the OL is running by now. Oh yeah, Eglinton and Finch LRT would be opening by then hopefully.
If they still don't receive money for new trains, shut down Line 2 permanently.
I present the future of the TTC!
T3G
Senior Member
If the T1s don't get replaced now they'll get replaced a few years later. I don't know why everyone is freaking out.
The doom and gloom around the line 2 replacement makes it seem like we've never had replacement equipment delayed in this city before. New York, who had to keep the R32s going for 57 years, would be laughing at us right now if they could find us on a map. Besides, didn't Steve Munro report late last year that the cars are going to get refurbished anyway?
The doom and gloom around the line 2 replacement makes it seem like we've never had replacement equipment delayed in this city before. New York, who had to keep the R32s going for 57 years, would be laughing at us right now if they could find us on a map. Besides, didn't Steve Munro report late last year that the cars are going to get refurbished anyway?
Kyle Campbell
Senior Member
It's the lead time involved. Think about what the CLRV experience what did to reliability for streetcars as they were kept alive past end of life, and it took a decade to replace them all from the time the contract was signed. Without getting started on Line 2 contracts soon, Line 2 on time performance will suffer greatly. Sure, NYC kept the R32s going forever, but Line 2 has 91% on time performance, whereas NYC has some lines down in the 68-70% range, so I wouldn't call that a success
T3G
Senior Member
The problem with what happened in the CLRV days was that BBD fed the TTC bad information and they were under the belief that the Flexitys would arrive sooner, so the CLRVs started to pall very quickly. I don't have the full timeline, but the ALRVs alone were supposed to be gone by 2014-15.
If the TTC has no reason to believe T1 replacements are imminent, it gives them an opportunity to secure the fleet before it gets to the level of the legacy streetcar fleet.
I didn't say NYC's on time performance has been a success, but there is a world of difference between lines having relatively poor on time performance, vs. having to shut down an entire line. NYC consistently has issues with replacing train cars when they meet their 40 year design limit, yet the only line to disappear from their map in the modern era, even amidst the chaos and decay of the 1970s and 80s, was the Culver shuttle. Why, therefore, would it happen here? It's very tiresome having discussions about fleet replacement in this city when one side of the aisle is running around like Chicken Little screaming that the world is going to end.
turbanplanner
Senior Member
I'm happy you had a pleasant trip!
Are we going to pretend the thousands of assaults yearly don't happen as well?
Shoving our heads in the sands has lead to a nearly 50% fare evasion rate and nearly 50% of people feeling unsafe.
I don't think at all every trip has a lunatic but too little is being done to help people when one shows up. Hence all the 6buzz videos.
Also for northern light, I'd appreciate an apology as I did back up my statements as best as possible.
Kyle Campbell
Senior Member
I hope they make that assumption. Maybe I'm cynical, but given how transit procurement projects seem to go these days across North America, I could see the exact same scenario happening again with the T1 replacements. They sign a contract, assume trains show up in say 3-4 years, and it takes double that time.