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dowlingm
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Finally Toronto Police are cracking down on the real problem on King Street
Mount Dennis Resident
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Before Ontario changed the rules, streetcar and subway drivers did NOT need a driver's license. A streetcar was a "street railway" and a subway was an "underground electric railway".
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I just emailed Councillor Myers, Chair of the TTC Board (Councillor Myers <Councillor_Myers@toronto.ca> ) suggesting the Board ought to discuss this with their colleagues at the Police Services Board. What a REMARKABLY stupid thing to do!
drum118
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I would got the badge number of the police officer and reported him for abused use of power, creating a worse traffic mess and delaying transit service to thousands of riders.
TTC driver should fight this ticket and complain why it doesn't happen to single drivers who caused this mess daily and blocking the intersections as well streetcars.
T3G
Senior Member
I don't think asking the cop for his badge number would have gotten you anywhere, seeing as he threatened the other driver for the insidious offense of questioning the all holy word of the police. He probably would've arrested you for it!
evandyk
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drum118
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drum118
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Just sent an email to the Chief of police on this
<Officeofthechief@torontopolice.on.ca>>
<Officeofthechief@torontopolice.on.ca>>
Bureaucromancer
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Am I the only one with the ugly feeling that Leary’s response to this thing might be to try and hang the operator out to dry? I don’t seem to recall the TTC being very helpful to the employees TPS kidnapped during the G20.
EnviroTO
Senior Member
I can see taking a picture and reporting the driver if they entered an intersection they can't get out of, but it definitely defeats the purpose to make the situation worse by creating a bigger traffic jam.
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kotsy
Senior Member
And TPS says they stand behind the officer. What a joke.
Officer tickets TTC streetcar operator for blocking intersection
A Redditor garnered attention for a post shared on Wednesday, describing a chaotic scene in the King Street and York Street area.
toronto.citynews.ca
Dan416
Senior Member
And this is why we should defund the police. They aren't serving the people. This ticket literally helped no one. I am a driver, and I find this patently ridiculous and actually offensive that a police offer would do this, and that the police service would stand behind it. Did they forget who they serve?
Catch actual crooks? Too much work. Easier to ticket a driver for a city-owned transit agency.
I am in the office downtown 3x a week, and I often do see the streetcars blocking intersections, but traffic is a nightmare all over downtown right now and a lot of times its cars or even pedestrians blocking the streetcars from moving. Maybe people shouldn't be idiots and waste their time driving into the traffic nightmare that is downtown. Take the GO. Seriously.
Catch actual crooks? Too much work. Easier to ticket a driver for a city-owned transit agency.
I am in the office downtown 3x a week, and I often do see the streetcars blocking intersections, but traffic is a nightmare all over downtown right now and a lot of times its cars or even pedestrians blocking the streetcars from moving. Maybe people shouldn't be idiots and waste their time driving into the traffic nightmare that is downtown. Take the GO. Seriously.
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T3G
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If you set hundreds of thousands of dollars on fire, you would get more value than you do by paying these imbeciles.
jmi22
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What happened?!? I'm too young to have really understood in the moment what happened during the G20 protests put this is the first im hearing of the cops kidnapping TTC employees. Hardly shocked smh