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<title>blogTO Recent Comments: The New Red Rocket</title>
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<title>Armpits</title>
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The milquetoast princesses bitching and moaning about armpit smell seriously need to spend the entire month of July on the Paris Metro. You wimps have no idea how good you have it.]]>
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<link>http://www.blogto.com/city/2008/08/the_new_red_rocket/#c303122</link>
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<category>Toronto, City</category>
<pubDate>Sat, 23 Aug 2008 15:43:58 PDT</pubDate>
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<title>magda</title>
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Actually, armpits smell worse if there is just stubble.]]>
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<link>http://www.blogto.com/city/2008/08/the_new_red_rocket/#c302805</link>
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<category>Toronto, City</category>
<pubDate>Fri, 22 Aug 2008 11:33:34 PDT</pubDate>
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<title>Omar</title>
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I've been in Toronto for two years now and I still miss the Mexico City subway. It's much much cheaper and larger (having  ten lines and more than 200 stations) and even quite a bit cleaner. The cleanliness is anomalous, I'll grant: generally speaking Toronto is cleaner than Mexico City, but for some reason the subway here is dirty and for some weirder reason it's continuously cleaned in Mexico City.

And Mexico City while having a much larger population is actually smaller than Toronto in area, so the subway seems really paltry here. The only downside to the Mexico City is, of course, how ridiculously crowded it gets... I still miss it though.]]>
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<link>http://www.blogto.com/city/2008/08/the_new_red_rocket/#c302246</link>
<guid>http://www.blogto.com/city/2008/08/the_new_red_rocket/#c302246</guid>
<category>Toronto, City</category>
<pubDate>Wed, 20 Aug 2008 09:00:25 PDT</pubDate>
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<title>GadgetMan</title>
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Finally, Toronto will have a subway system that is with the modern times like the rest of Asia!  About time!  Now, we just need to have those magnetic RF cards to swipe like Presto and we're actually going to be with the likes of Beijing, Hong Kong and Seoul!]]>
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<link>http://www.blogto.com/city/2008/08/the_new_red_rocket/#c302103</link>
<guid>http://www.blogto.com/city/2008/08/the_new_red_rocket/#c302103</guid>
<category>Toronto, City</category>
<pubDate>Tue, 19 Aug 2008 17:56:40 PDT</pubDate>
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<title>Dipp</title>
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I think NYC's subway system is amazing.  As stated, it's easy to use, well positioned and with the north-south bus lines, getting to anywhere in NYC at any time is a non-issue.  So what if it's dirty and hot in places?  I'll take effective transit over clean any day.

Toronto will never be world-class without a world-class public transit system.]]>
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<link>http://www.blogto.com/city/2008/08/the_new_red_rocket/#c302087</link>
<guid>http://www.blogto.com/city/2008/08/the_new_red_rocket/#c302087</guid>
<category>Toronto, City</category>
<pubDate>Tue, 19 Aug 2008 16:56:40 PDT</pubDate>
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<title>Jeff</title>
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Regarding the display sign in the picture, if the train is currently at Dupont and the next stop is St. Clair West, shouldn't the doors be opening on the RIGHT?]]>
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<link>http://www.blogto.com/city/2008/08/the_new_red_rocket/#c302007</link>
<guid>http://www.blogto.com/city/2008/08/the_new_red_rocket/#c302007</guid>
<category>Toronto, City</category>
<pubDate>Tue, 19 Aug 2008 11:57:44 PDT</pubDate>
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<title>Andrew N</title>
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In response to ayl, I think the bigger problem is with waste generated from excessive amounts of newspapers and not enough available waste and recycling bins. From what I've seen so far, food waste on trains is at a minimum. 

In response to uSkyscraper, I do agree that the map needs to be reworked. While our transit does what it needs to do and is fairy efficient, I can't help but think how complicated the map would look. Likewise, streetcar routes should be incorporated in the present map and not treated as a separate aspect of our transit system.]]>
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<link>http://www.blogto.com/city/2008/08/the_new_red_rocket/#c301919</link>
<guid>http://www.blogto.com/city/2008/08/the_new_red_rocket/#c301919</guid>
<category>Toronto, City</category>
<pubDate>Tue, 19 Aug 2008 01:59:06 PDT</pubDate>
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<title>ayl</title>
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I'm currently in Taiwan right now and have taken their subway (MRT) many times. The technlogy they use is amazing, the stations are clean and the stops are announced in 3 languages. 

A friend from Toronto is also here and we discussed their rule of no eating or drinking in the station as well as on the train. I don't think Toronto could implement this. There are just too many commuters who need their morning coffee.]]>
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<link>http://www.blogto.com/city/2008/08/the_new_red_rocket/#c301916</link>
<guid>http://www.blogto.com/city/2008/08/the_new_red_rocket/#c301916</guid>
<category>Toronto, City</category>
<pubDate>Tue, 19 Aug 2008 01:45:14 PDT</pubDate>
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<title>rek</title>
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Seoul is decades ahead of Toronto where subways are concerned.]]>
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<link>http://www.blogto.com/city/2008/08/the_new_red_rocket/#c301906</link>
<guid>http://www.blogto.com/city/2008/08/the_new_red_rocket/#c301906</guid>
<category>Toronto, City</category>
<pubDate>Tue, 19 Aug 2008 00:14:45 PDT</pubDate>
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<title>Zach</title>
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The Seoul subway is crazy but comfortable and efficient. The TTC seems to be getting better (but more expensive).]]>
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<link>http://www.blogto.com/city/2008/08/the_new_red_rocket/#c301887</link>
<guid>http://www.blogto.com/city/2008/08/the_new_red_rocket/#c301887</guid>
<category>Toronto, City</category>
<pubDate>Mon, 18 Aug 2008 21:48:37 PDT</pubDate>
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<title>Peter G</title>
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I spoke with a TTC inspector today, on the (still incomplete because of resident objections!) St Clair West streetcar line. I asked her if anyone from the TTC has gone overseas to see how other cities organise mass transit.  The answer? "Not much."  I lived in Eastern Europe in the early 90s, and the systems there/then were MUCH better than ours, in relatively less developed societies. There doesn't seem to be public will here in Toronto to see an efficient mass transit system.  The TTC could learn a thing or two from cities like Osaka (smaller than Toronto, with seven subway lines and four or so regional GO style lines which come into the city and connect with the subways).  The TTC doesn't seem interested in a transit solution. And so, we're all subjected to surly service, smelly commutes, dirty trains and stations, and transit strikes because the TTC workers are 'stressed'.]]>
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<link>http://www.blogto.com/city/2008/08/the_new_red_rocket/#c301882</link>
<guid>http://www.blogto.com/city/2008/08/the_new_red_rocket/#c301882</guid>
<category>Toronto, City</category>
<pubDate>Mon, 18 Aug 2008 21:08:23 PDT</pubDate>
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<title>jack</title>
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maybe the TTC can learn something from the male olympics gymnasts as to how to deal with smelly armpits....since they all have nice trimmed or clean shavened armpits..for those who have armpits fetish, the TTC is like heaven!]]>
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<link>http://www.blogto.com/city/2008/08/the_new_red_rocket/#c301871</link>
<guid>http://www.blogto.com/city/2008/08/the_new_red_rocket/#c301871</guid>
<category>Toronto, City</category>
<pubDate>Mon, 18 Aug 2008 19:43:50 PDT</pubDate>
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<title>chenyip</title>
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New York's subway system isn't horrid.  In terms of coverage, its pretty damn spot on.  Cleanliness, surly transit workers with thick Brooklyn accents, and Union Sq. Station feeling like its convectional oven in summer?  Sure.  But that's also a pitfall of having a subway system thats 100+ years old.

And its really not that hard to navigate.  Once you understand what the major transfer points are, what lines go to and fro, it can be pretty simple to navigate.  Besides, they got cool station names like Hoyt-Skimmerhorn.]]>
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<link>http://www.blogto.com/city/2008/08/the_new_red_rocket/#c301862</link>
<guid>http://www.blogto.com/city/2008/08/the_new_red_rocket/#c301862</guid>
<category>Toronto, City</category>
<pubDate>Mon, 18 Aug 2008 18:52:43 PDT</pubDate>
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<title>Robert</title>
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I don't care what people say. NY's subway's system is horrid compared to Toronto.]]>
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<link>http://www.blogto.com/city/2008/08/the_new_red_rocket/#c301850</link>
<guid>http://www.blogto.com/city/2008/08/the_new_red_rocket/#c301850</guid>
<category>Toronto, City</category>
<pubDate>Mon, 18 Aug 2008 18:03:50 PDT</pubDate>
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<title>uSkyscraper</title>
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There are two fundamental flaws here:

1) USE A LINE MAP.  No one, not one transit agency, not a single bureaucrat anywhere, tries to squish a whole system map over the door.  Put a freaking line map over the door - much easier to read, LED or not.  This is what New York and London actually do.  The entire network map can go over a seat somewhere, where there is more space to show connections, etc.  (Yes, you have to lean over someone to read it sometimes, but this is how the world works.  Get your head out of the sand, Toronto, and do what works elsewhere.)

2) SHOW THE STREETCARS.  We're spending billions on new streetcars downtown and LRT lines all over Transit City but they apparently don't count as part of the rail transit network?  That ought to make it fun when trying to go crosstown on Finch LRT then the Yonge subway then the Sheppard subway then the Sheppard LRT.  It's all one network.  Show me a single city in the world that does not put all rail vehicles on one map.  This is a local psychology that visitors to Toronto do not understand.  


This is not (red) rocket science.  Put all rail lines on the map to create a new simplified network map, and display this (without LED) on an ad poster over a seat.  Show an LED line map over the door like the Bombardier cars that New York has (complete with changeable stops, screens, diversion alerts, etc.)   Don't blow this, TTC!]]>
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<link>http://www.blogto.com/city/2008/08/the_new_red_rocket/#c301848</link>
<guid>http://www.blogto.com/city/2008/08/the_new_red_rocket/#c301848</guid>
<category>Toronto, City</category>
<pubDate>Mon, 18 Aug 2008 17:36:25 PDT</pubDate>
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<title>W. K. Lis</title>
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According to the technical drawing from Bombardier at http://www.bombardier.com/files/en/supporting_docs/image_and_media/products_technical_drawing/P2-Metros_Toronto-Rocket.gif there is room to sit at the front.]]>
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<link>http://www.blogto.com/city/2008/08/the_new_red_rocket/#c301840</link>
<guid>http://www.blogto.com/city/2008/08/the_new_red_rocket/#c301840</guid>
<category>Toronto, City</category>
<pubDate>Mon, 18 Aug 2008 16:19:16 PDT</pubDate>
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<title>John</title>
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It's a shame the driver's cab takes the entire front of the new train.  Sitting at the front of the subway is a huge pleasure of childhood in Toronto.]]>
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<link>http://www.blogto.com/city/2008/08/the_new_red_rocket/#c301825</link>
<guid>http://www.blogto.com/city/2008/08/the_new_red_rocket/#c301825</guid>
<category>Toronto, City</category>
<pubDate>Mon, 18 Aug 2008 15:26:36 PDT</pubDate>
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<title>Andrew N.</title>
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Here's a mock-up of what the Toronto system should be like in 2050. In order to see the original version, remember to view the largest size on Flickr. If we had a system like the one he created, I'd be over the moon.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/ryanfelix/2207800842/]]>
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<link>http://www.blogto.com/city/2008/08/the_new_red_rocket/#c301821</link>
<guid>http://www.blogto.com/city/2008/08/the_new_red_rocket/#c301821</guid>
<category>Toronto, City</category>
<pubDate>Mon, 18 Aug 2008 14:53:48 PDT</pubDate>
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<title>Matt Cave</title>
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Having recently moved to Toronto, I'm a relative newcomer to the TTC. Personally, having lived in the UK for the previous 3 decades, I think the Toronto public transport system is superb. It's clean, affordable, as reliable as any public transport system I've used, and the armpit issue is far less of an issue than London, Paris or New York. New features and improved accessibility are all good things, but I agree the main focus needs to be extending the coverage so more people can make use of it.]]>
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<link>http://www.blogto.com/city/2008/08/the_new_red_rocket/#c301818</link>
<guid>http://www.blogto.com/city/2008/08/the_new_red_rocket/#c301818</guid>
<category>Toronto, City</category>
<pubDate>Mon, 18 Aug 2008 14:32:32 PDT</pubDate>
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<title>J</title>
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So we're getting new trains with (somewhat) advanced technology to replace the old cars riding along B-D...and everyone complains? Putting money down to replace the aging fleet seems fair enough to me.

Details on Bombardier's website: http://www.bombardier.com/en/transportation/products-services/rail-vehicles/metros/toronto--canada?docID=0901260d8000f949#]]>
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<link>http://www.blogto.com/city/2008/08/the_new_red_rocket/#c301816</link>
<guid>http://www.blogto.com/city/2008/08/the_new_red_rocket/#c301816</guid>
<category>Toronto, City</category>
<pubDate>Mon, 18 Aug 2008 14:17:15 PDT</pubDate>
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