the war on idiocy
An announcement on the King streetcar this morning:
“This isn’t that Queen car, people. The next person that enters through the back door, I’ll take this car right out of service.”
Strong words. Of course, unless the TTC has some sort of ubiquitous omni-intercom wired through all of Toronto, the hypothetical individual who next enters via the back door can’t hear the driver’s warning because they’re not yet on the streetcar. But full marks for being surly.
The Toronto Transit Commission: your source for poorly thought out, useless threats.
May 27th, 2009 by graeme |
As a 504 King rider, this shit pisses me off. Clearly it’s a case of demand: people aren’t entering via the back door because they don’t want to pay fare, they’re doing it so they don’t have to line up for ten minutes, only to get jammed up at the front because no one moves to the back of the damn streetcar.
If anything, these people are helping the problem. Faster loading means fewer missed traffic lights and loading at the back means better passenger distribution along the streetcar.
(my captcha for this comment is appropriately “tenses on”)
In Ottawa, there are plenty of proof of purchase buses where people can load at the back.
Is there a “Queen car” too? I confess I have no familiarity with the system there, but as an outsider, that sounds like a homosexual dig, mean the “queen” is taking it in the back door. Is that the root of the comment? Or am I just permanently in the gutter?
You are indeed in the gutter — King and Queen are streets in Toronto. Only the Queen car allows POP entrance on the back, even though the King car is apparently the busiest route in town.