new street cars suck balls

A lot of people in Toronto are excited about the new street cars now running on Spadina.  The reason behind that excitement is likely because there has been nothing else positive going on with TTC for a long time.  But this is a sentiment that I do not share with my fellow street car riders.

The new street car has more cars, but does not feel at all more spacious.  The aisles between the seats are very narrow.  If someone is standing in the aisle when the train is packed, it will be very difficult for another person to pass. You will need a proof of payment to ride it, if you don't have a metro pass or a transfer already, you will need to deal with these machines onboard (the driver no longer interact with the rider in any way).  These fucking things are unintuitive and very slow. There is going to be clusterfuck around that machine constantly.

And if you just got off the subway at Spadina station and would like to get on the street car, you will struggle to find a place to get a transfer/proof of payment.  I asked one of those TTC guys always standing around the 510 street car platform inside Spadina station getting paid doing nothing: 'so it is not good if I get on the street car without a proof of payment, right'?  The dude nodded.  'Then where do I get a transfer'?  The guy starts to look around, start to point .... yet there is no transfer machine anywhere.  Yes, this guy was wearing TTC uniform.  Fantastic.

Clearly no one from TTC that implemented this new system has ever ride the street car.  The clusterfuck on Spadina continues even with the street cars now running.

Spadina clusterfuck continues

After being here for six years, I finally figured it out.  People in Toronto do three things in the summer:  they sit outside and drink beer, they go to cottages, and they tear up the roads for no apparent fucking reason.

So for the third year in the row, they are doing god knows what in the Spadina station as well as on Spadina.  And once again the 510 street cars are not running and replaced by the buses.  The traffics on these already very busy intersections are again just clusterfucks.

Well, now I know what to expect next summer.

不要 (no)!

The first word my girlfriend's nephew learned to say is 不要, that means no in Mandarin.  For a long time that was the only word that he says.  Well, the congress is acting like a 2 year old right now.

TTC clusterfuck continues .....

Now for the second summer in a row, they are shutting down 510 street cars for a extended period.  This time to rip up the intersection of King and Spadina.

I really hope they will be able to restore full service of the line before winter .....

spadina street car clusterfuck

So last summer the city of Toronto teared up Spadina street to replace some of the street car track, fixed up some of the shelters at stops etc.  Well, they never finished it by November as they promised.  And now it is almost the summer of the following year, the Spadina street car still does not go past King street (down to where I live).  It is almost like the person who runs the city is too busy smoking crack.