TheTigerMaster
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Nice to see that everyone stopped talking about the crisis facing the TTC because of this frivolous post.
Back to regularly scheduled programming: arguments over station names!
Nice to see that everyone stopped talking about the crisis facing the TTC because of this frivolous post.
In other related news, there's a proposal to have high school students getting their community service hours by pushing commuters into trains during rush hours.Back to regularly scheduled programming: arguments over station names!
In other related news, there's a proposal to have high school students getting their community service hours by pushing commuters into trains during rush hours.
Note that this isn't new. Tokyo has been doing something like this for a long time (though New York City was the first to implement something like that).
Source: Wikimedia Commons
Even China and Spain have them!
- SteppenwolfGod damn, the pusher
God damn, I say the pusher
I said God damn, God damn the pusher man
No thank I would much rather wait for a train or two then be pushed by an employee into the train.In other related news, there's a proposal to have high school students getting their community service hours by pushing commuters into trains during rush hours.
Note that this isn't new. Tokyo has been doing something like this for a long time (though New York City was the first to implement something like that).
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Source: Wikimedia Commons
Even China and Spain have them!
- Steppenwolf
Nice to see that everyone stopped talking about the crisis facing the TTC because of this frivolous post.
The problem is that GO doesn't serve all areas of the city off-peak. For instance, If I wanted to take the train from Waterloo off-peak to Union, I would have no choice but to pay more.I'd be in favour of this. Personally, I'd be fine with seeing the Presto fare raised by $0.50 during peak periods and lowered by $0.50 during non-peak periods. Cash fare would rise the $0.50 to encourage Presto adoption. When you buy monthly passes using Presto, there could be the option to buy either a Peak + Non-Peak Pass, or just a Non-Peak Pass.
As an aside, I'd love the same option for GO. It irks me that even if I'm taking the 23:43 train out of Union on a Sunday I'm paying the exact same as if I was taking the 16:30 on a Tuesday.
Notwithstanding @TheTigerMaster ’s last post, for the record, Toronto is the fourth largest city in North America having bypassed Chicago in the past three years.
Number one, drumroll please is Mexico City. In second place, New York City. Followed by Los Angeles (Gratuitous editorial - which is like Mississauga with palm trees.) Then us. And only then Chicago.
Of course if you were ranking the cities by the murder rate per capita the winner would be...
This is misleading as municipal boundaries are rather arbitrary. Toronto has a large municipal boundary, so it's got a "large" population.Notwithstanding @TheTigerMaster ’s last post, for the record, Toronto is the fourth largest city in North America having bypassed Chicago in the past three years.
Number one, drumroll please is Mexico City. In second place, New York City. Followed by Los Angeles (Gratuitous editorial - which is like Mississauga with palm trees.) Then us. And only then Chicago.
Of course if you were ranking the cities by the murder rate per capita the winner would be...
This is misleading as municipal boundaries are rather arbitrary. Toronto has a large municipal boundary, so it's got a "large" population.
If you measure based on the metro area, Toronto is way smaller than Chicago. The order of metro size goes Mexico City - NYC - LA - Chicago - Dallas Fort Worth - Houston - Toronto. Chicago is around 9.5 million, Toronto is a little over 6 million.
Those two areas don't possess similar commuter patterns however. Chicago is a lot more sprawling than Toronto - and is a larger city, so it inevitably takes up a much larger area. The GGH is a general urban region, but many of the population centres within it act largely independantly. Racine on the other hand is very much in the commuter belt of Chicago. There aren't many people going into Toronto for work from St Catharines, but from Gary, or Kenosha? Plenty.
For example, 614 people who live in Racine County work in Cook County (Chicago). 194,000 people live in Racine.
Cambridge has 340 people working in Toronto, out of 134,000. Racine is about double the commuting rate, and is 20km further away from downtown chicago than Cambridge is from Toronto.
In other related news, there's a proposal to have high school students getting their community service hours by pushing commuters into trains during rush hours.
No thank I would much rather wait for a train or two then be pushed by an employee into the train.
Those two areas don't possess similar commuter patterns however. Chicago is a lot more sprawling than Toronto - and is a larger city, so it inevitably takes up a much larger area. The GGH is a general urban region, but many of the population centres within it act largely independantly. Racine on the other hand is very much in the commuter belt of Chicago. There aren't many people going into Toronto for work from St Catharines, but from Gary, or Kenosha? Plenty.
For example, 614 people who live in Racine County work in Cook County (Chicago). 194,000 people live in Racine.
Cambridge has 340 people working in Toronto, out of 134,000. Racine is about double the commuting rate, and is 20km further away from downtown chicago than Cambridge is from Toronto.