TTC: Streetcar Network

[TRONto]

FYI - I wrote into my local councillor about removing stops on Spadina. The response stated that the TTC is planning a review of streetcar reliability this year and the report will include: operational performance, route-specific challenges, and opportunities to strengthen service delivery across the network.

This may have been part of council direction when the whole Line 6 service was blowing up but thought I'd mention anyway.

 

[DSCToronto]

FYI - I wrote into my local councillor about removing stops on Spadina. The response stated that the TTC is planning a review of streetcar reliability this year and the report will include: operational performance, route-specific challenges, and opportunities to strengthen service delivery across the network.

This may have been part of council direction when the whole Line 6 service was blowing up but thought I'd mention anyway.

People do not care if 'other peoples stops' are removed but go berserk if THEIR stop is threatened. Councillors get huge amounts of mail about stop removals and often instruct TTC not to remove them.

 

[Monarch Butterfly]

People do not care if 'other peoples stops' are removed but go berserk if THEIR stop is threatened. Councillors get huge amounts of mail about stop removals and often instruct TTC not to remove them.

That's called NIMBYism. Same NIMBYism is occurring with the proposed high-speed rail line (Alto) between Toronto and Quebec City from the farmers along the route. They like the idea, but not in their neck of the neighbourhood.

 

[nfitz]

They can and will remove sleepers; I've seen it personally.

I was on a car when the POPs came through (which seems to happen frequently enough on 506 on lower Gerrard Street). It was quite empty, and they came in the back, I asked them why they hadn't checked the guy sleeping across the back seats. "Do you think he could pay" they asks? Is there nothing you can do (this was before winter - it was a nice day)? "He hasn't done anything wrong, and isn't harming anyone" they says (what, other than not paying, and several sections of Bylaw 1?). We can't do anything unless they a danger to others", The guy, who was about 6 rows away must have stirred, because he started shouting something. So I shouted back at him that he should shut up. Then he started threatening us. I asked if they were going to do anything now "No, if you think it's necessary then you need to press the emergency button".

They did politely ask where he was going to, and he decided to get off ... but it was very Kafkaesque. It's almost like they were doing everything they could to not have to do any paperwork. That they'd so blatantly ignore threats of physical violence was disgusting.

There needs to be a policy shift at TTC to get any real change.