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I don't know why some people are against OPTO and thinks it will make the subway less safe. Line 4 is really quiet compare to places like HK, London, etc. They have a ton more people and they can manage it.
 
Steve X said:
I don't know why some people are against OPTO and thinks it will make the subway less safe. Line 4 is really quiet compare to places like HK, London, etc. They have a ton more people and they can manage it.
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The safety message is what ATU pushes, for obvious reasons. What escaped me is how a union purported to stand up for public safety managed to have a strike that among other things, dropped passengers in the middle of nowhere before arriving at their destination at 12 midnight just to make a point. For them to wave the safety banner after that stint is a farce.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008_Toronto_Transit_Commission_strike

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They should install station screen doors as well. But the non-transit users on the commission and at city council will say "no".
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The TTC is very short of money and it is FAR from clear that platform doors are worth the huge cost. Yes, they might stop garbage getting onto the tracks (but most 'smoke at track level' is apparently caused by old wiring NOT garbage) and they might reduce/eliminate suicides but it is certainly not my top priority!
 
TTC riders hold protest outside city hall

From link.

Dozens of TTC riders held a protest outside city hall on Wednesday afternoon ahead of a commission meeting where trustees are expected to formally sign off on $15.8 million in cuts.

The cuts are being made in order to meet a request that Mayor John Tory made of all city departments, asking them to lower their operating budgets by 2.6 per cent.

The cuts include the cancellation of $1.5 million in planned September service increases that are no longer required due to declining ridership. The TTC is also reducing overtime spending, trimming its training and travel budget and placing fewer employees on standby in order to meet the savings target.

“Riders are really upset. They are upset with the service cuts coming down the pipe and also the fare hikes that we are looking at as well. It is just not what transit needs right now,” TTCriders Executive Director Jessica Bell told CTV News Toronto outside city hall. “We need more funding and we need better service across the city.”

In order to illustrate their point, the protesters staged a mock ‘race to the bottom,” wherein riders representing Tory, Premier Kathleen Wynne, TTC Chair Josh Colle and others competed in a foot race to determine who would win the title of “doing the most to worsen the TTC.”

“We are sick of the fare hikes, we are sick of the delays, we are sick of the long waits. We want improvements,” Biel said ahead of that race.

$172 M deficit in budget

Though the TTC was able to trim its operating budget by 2.6 per cent, a $172 million hole still exists in its budget for next year and further service cuts or fare hikes may be necessary to fill it should the provincial or federal governments not come forward with additional funding.

One area in which the TTC plans to find savings is to follow the lead of subway systems in a number of other cities and shift to a one operator model on subway trains, however that move will only save about $18 million annually and could prove unpopular.

One poll conducted by Mainstreet Research on Tuesday found that 67 per cent of respondents oppose eliminating the subway guard position compared to just 19 per cent who approve the idea.

The poll was commissioned by Amalgamated Transit Union Local 113.
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TTC riders and users have had cuts and reductions for thirty years now, and can't take it anymore. The worst started when the province cut its share of the operating budget under Harris, and again from the city under Ford and now under Tory. We want better service, which means the TTC needs to be better funded.

Is this what the fiscal non-transit politicians want for Toronto?
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There seems to be nothing new in the blog post that hasn't been previously reported over the past few months/year.
 
Bob Kinnear once again demonstrating what a fool he is.
One-person operation is used by transit agencies around the world and on the TTC’s own Scarborough RT, but Amalgamated Transit Union Local 113 claims it’s unsafe and opposed by the public. In a Sept. 28 news release, union president Bob Kinnear went so far as to raise the spectre of terrorist attacks against trains without guards.

“(TTC CEO) Andy Byford holds up London and Madrid as examples of cities with one-person operation but obviously forgot that hundreds of people were killed and thousands injured by terrorist attacks on those two cities’ transit systems,” he said.
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https://www.thestar.com/news/gta/2016/10/02/ttc-forging-ahead-with-one-operator-subway-trains.html
 
When the brand new PCC streetcars arrived, the union was against the introduction of "pay-as-you-enter". With the Peter Witt streetcars and trains, they had two or three men on them, a driver and a conductor on the streetcar (and a third conductor in the trailer). With the "pay-as-you-enter", the driver would be performing the duties of both driver and conductor (selling tickets and collecting fares).

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