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You know what's funny, as someone who lives on St Clair I still occasionally have to remind myself to press the button. I've missed my stop due to the absent minded assumption the streetcar will stop at every stop more than I'd like to admit. This never happened to me before the ROW, so I'd have to assume that it's the nature of the line that causes me to behave this way.
I don't understand why you want to make a big deal about this and make it as if we are failing as a city because they said they don't have plans to activate a button.
Strangely enough, for the first time ever about a week ago a 512 streetcar I was on stopped at a stop for a couple seconds before I'd realized all other passengers at other doors disembarked and that I was required to press the button to open the doors. Perhaps it was driver error, but I've never seen this happen before.
So because they do it on one streetcar route that means that they are going to do it on both the Eglinton crosstown and Finch west as well. The streetcar routes operate differently than they have planed for the LRT routes, I've seen on St. Claire and Queen's Quay where they operate both ways opening all the doors or waiting for the person to push the button it all depends on how crowded the platform is and how many people are standing in the door ways. I have also seen many times were people scream for the driver to open the doors because they are either too lazy to push the button or don't want to for various reasons. Also don't forget we don't really know exactly what peoples travel patterns will be on both Eglinton and Finch west yet, they might at non busy times if there are only open the doors if there are a large number of people on board the train and waiting at the platform otherwise they might have people using the button, which has its own set of problems as i said before. One example of why someone might not want to push it is because of religious beliefs that they aren't supposed to do so, or for someone else it could be a cleanliness issue or things like that, we can't make an assumption that everyone is willing or able to push a button on their own when they don't expect to do it.
No, the buttons are not a big deal. Which is why it should be no big deal to activate them, right?
What about people who don't watch TV or fast forward through commercials? The problem is not everyone will pay attention to it or you will have people who are like why do we need a commercial to tell us how to use public transit? Waterfront Toronto already tried something like that too explain how to use Queens Quay after they made a mess of it which only cauaed people to make fyn of it because why do you need to watch a YouTube video on how to use a street.
The problem is not everyone may understand something like that. Another problem is how do you go about it, do you put it on the news but that only reaches people who watch the news on TV what about people who don't, or people who don't own a TV or fast forward through commercials if you make it one instead?
No that's just people who are lazy and "don't want to take a job away from someone else". I'm 43 and use self checkout all the time and no one had to teach me how to use it.
I will give on that in that self-checkout today is much better than in the past. The self-checkouts of ten years ago were ultra-strict on a long series of rules about how you scanned and bagged everything, and if you did one thing which it thought was in the wrong order, the whole thing would shutdown and call for an attendant, ostensibly to assist you, but really they were there to make sure you weren't stealing Cheerios. You could master one stores process, but another would have a totally different method of doing things which would get you in trouble there.
I remember a friend who bought a condo way out at Long Branch Loop around 2010 and had a housewarming party. It went very late into the night. I took the streetcar back downtown because the last eastbound GO Train was done for the night. I remember it was an ALRV, and I sat at the very back.
