Morning Brew: March 27th, 2008

Ford was on Oakley's radio program this morning. It was
painful listening since Ford was hamstrung about what he
could say and Oakley wasn't having any of that.

So, here was an incompetent city councilllor being interviewed by a has-been radio personality on a radio station that's not even in the top 15 stations in Toronto.

Pathetic all round

Bell keeps making huge if not record profits, their executives get raises, they continue to rape customers with poor service, and yet when it comes to internet traffic, if the network hardware isn't good enough to handle the growing file sizes and data transfer of the internet it's always the public who is at fault or blamed.

It'd be like if you had a highway with too few lanes, too many potholes, and too many vehicles, and as opposed to spending money on what obviously needs to be fixed/improved, you instead just forced people off the highway, blamed them for the problems, and then raised taxes despite not fixing anything.

Bell and Rogers need to be taken to task for their tyrannical methods.
Unfortunately, nothing will change until more competition is allowed to function without being bought out.

As for TTC's decision to drop the uniform look... Good for them.
Trying to maintain a uniform look is problematic at best, especially since the tiles used once upon a time have been discontinued, and finding a suitable replacement could prove even more costly.
Secondly, perhaps either renovating or tearing down these older stations would put an end to these continuous functional problems? They're old, that happens when things get old. They also weren't designed to meet today and tomorrows needs.
Fix that, and perhaps all else will start to fall in place, neh?