People don't want to accept that things break down or need maintenance done they expect everything to work all of the time, the world doesn't work like that. It's easy to sit behind your keyboard or post a picture on twitter and complain without any context whatsoever and that's what the people who say its not reliable do. People also have fulse expectations of how things work like for example they expect the bus to be at the stop waiting for them when they arrive they expect to be able to run onto the subway when the doors are closing and if they don't get on it's the operators fault and not their's. For every person who says that they are giving up in the TTC there are way more who don't really care about their opinions at all, if you think its not reliable and that riding a bike or taking a car is so much better than do it but don't expect someone to care about or for the TTC to care about your opinion.
Indeed, the TTC hasn't cared about its riders for a while.
Again, it's not actual reliability that matters, it's the
perception of unreliability. A series of bad experiences and bad press will scare riders.
It's not really something that they can just take care of like people seem to think they can. People wander into the subway through bus bays at sations and it isn't just homeless people. They try to do something about but people complain about them or the city as targeting them and it's unfair to do that.
Mental health is an aspect that's been missing from public policy for decades. But it's outside the TTC's purview - my preferred course of action would be to keep homeless people out of subway systems, but to also get them into shelters. They can't do much about public priorities though.
Probably because there aren't as many go train stations for people to board. That could probably change with the extra stations that Metrolinx is adding in Toronto to "regonalize" the system.
Go isn't really as much of an alternative as people seem to think it is unless you live on one of the line that sees a lot of service in Toronto. Again I don't think that adding additional stations and trains on the existing go line is going to change how people commute in Toronto.
Zoom and other car share companies who dump cars on the street are only good for people who have a driver's license and according to statistics fewer people in Toronto have them then in the past.
The amount of people who leave the TTC for other forms of transit are a very small group and it isn't as much of a factor as they want it to be.
I didn't know Zoom was a car-share company. Isn't there this WFH thing that involves Zoom?
Anyways, people won't always switch to transit, or biking. They might start driving.
London only has part of one tube line and the Elizabeth lines underground stations that have platform edge doors yet people talk as if its the whole system. I can't say anything about Paris or Singapore as I'm not as familiar with them.
TYSSE and Sheppard could have been built from Day 1 with PSDs. Blame the politicians. Actually, so could the SSE. Do we know if the SSE is getting PSDs? I'm guessing no.
You didn't make that clear at all and many businesses are saying that they are going to have people return to work in offices. I don't see there being enough people who will be able to work from home all the time having as much of an impact as you seem to think. There are many jobs that can't be done on line which some people seem to forget and that's why we still had crowded buses during the pandemic when people were working online.
Part of that crowding comes from the service cuts implemented by the TTC during the pandemic.
Service cuts beget ridership drops, which beget service cuts ... It's not that people won't continue to take transit, it's the possibility that people (especially those during short trips) who found alternatives during COVID will not switch back to transit because of perceived issues. it's an issue facing transit agencies around the country.
