CharmAlarm
Active Member
I have to say I was very pleasantly surprised the other morning when I boarded an eastbound car at Winona at about 9:15a.m. and it took exactly 15 minutes to pull into St. Clair station - no exaggeration, I looked at my digital watch. Green lights all the way. Granted this was the last car in a line of three that were pulling into Winona just as I was approaching the platform and at that hour, rush hour had died down...but still!!! Very impressive.
The ride home of course was different... throngs of people waiting at St. Clair station platform around 6:40 p.m. on a cold Friday night...waiting and waiting... no announcements of course because that would be too customer service friendly. Finally after 10 minutes or so (who knows how long other people were waiting because the platform was packed when I got there). The streetcar arrived. ANd only after someone asked what happened did the driver volunteer that there was an accident. Gee..imagine that..on a ROW. And who knows how many more have happened that we haven't heard about it (recall the problems drivers had with Spadina). Oh well..hit and miss.
The ride home of course was different... throngs of people waiting at St. Clair station platform around 6:40 p.m. on a cold Friday night...waiting and waiting... no announcements of course because that would be too customer service friendly. Finally after 10 minutes or so (who knows how long other people were waiting because the platform was packed when I got there). The streetcar arrived. ANd only after someone asked what happened did the driver volunteer that there was an accident. Gee..imagine that..on a ROW. And who knows how many more have happened that we haven't heard about it (recall the problems drivers had with Spadina). Oh well..hit and miss.