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Morning Brew: TTC Seeks Outside Help and Expects Ridership Drop, "Supermodel" Enza Wants Ward 27, First Body Scanner at Pearson, Raw Milk Verdict, Canadians Against Proroguing Parliament
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What's happening in the GTA (and sometimes beyond):
If you received 31,000 complaints annually, how would you react? A spike in rider dissatisfaction has resulted in the TTC seeking outside consultations with the goal of improving customer service relations. The news comes as the transit commission also reveals its highest ridership numbers ever in 2009 and a predicted loss of ridership this coming year, citing the recently imposed fare hike.
Drag queen Enza "Supermodel" Anderson is entering the city politics fray once again, in an attempt to replace outgoing city councillor Kyle Rae in Ward 27. After several previous failed campaigns to be elected into municipal politics, I'm not sure this one will be any different - but I guess that depends on the performance of those in the already crowded field she'll be up against.
The first of the controversial airport security body scanners has arrived at Pearson airport. While some passengers might feel squeamish about walking through and having some stranger in a nearby room eying their figure, most are happy knowing that travel is potentially more underwear-bomb-free.
The legal fate of Ontario's most strident raw milk advocate is expected to be determined today. While wishful (oh, how lovely the cheese would be!), I'm not getting my hopes up.
While polls indicate that a majority of Canadians are against Harper's sly prorogation tactics, just a reported 35 people showed up to a protest in Toronto during the PM's visit here yesterday. Organizers are hoping that their planned rally at Dundas Square on Saturday afternoon at 1 p.m. (part of a wider, national initiative) is a far more attended and noisier affair.
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I hate this illusion of safety. No matter how tight security is, there will always be ways around it.
No such thing, surprised they're even looking into this.
Do you need a bunch of 1500 dollar a day consultants to tell you to tell your drivers to stop being rude?
To tell you to tell your streetcar drivers to not shut the doors on someone they have clearly seen running to catch the streetcar?
To tell you to tell your drivers to learn the fu*king city?
Hey TTC for 1500 bucks I'll tell you the other 200 things to tell your sh*tty staff.
Yet the media loves to report that a facebook group has started bla bla bla.
HAHAHAHAHAA!!!
No big deal though, right? Happens all the time.
Well, this time the driver did it about 10 yards out of the streetcar loop at Neville Park.
http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&;source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=2354+Queen+Street+East,+toronto&sll=43.735317,-79.705352&sspn=0.006892,0.016512&g=2354+Queen+Street+East&ie=UTF8&hq=&hnear=2354+Queen+St+E,+Toronto,+Toronto+Division,+Ontario,+Canada&ll=43.673743,-79.281654&spn=0.000862,0.002064&t=h&z=20
Satellite picture for reference.
The convenience store is -literally- right across the street from the loop. There was no reason why the driver couldn't walk there from the loop while his streetcar was out of traffics way.
But no. He pulled his streetcar out onto the street to get himself an extra 20 feet closer to the store while he blocked traffic. Idiot.
Then I noticed while walking as the streetcar finally left its parking spot and passed me that the driver was fully talking on his cellphone. Not even with hands free or anything. Fully cellphone in hand talking. I would have reported him, however nobody had gotten on at the first stop and as he picked up the person at the next one he hung up the phone.
===> run it like a business would run it. Pretend it's privatized, and that your job relies on being able to make the thing float.
She knows the issues and has worked with all the tenants in the community to make their lives better.
The Liberals want to run a cop but that will never sell in the ward.