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July 11, 2007

TTC Sad, Disasters Bad, Avril Mad

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The TTC can’t win for losing. Ridership is up but revenues are down as more riders choose weekly or monthly passes, and the TTC is looking for more money from the city to accommodate the surge. Damn those Metropass holders, riding around like they own the place.

After nine days of deliberations, the jury in the Conrad Black case has announced that they’ve been unable to reach a verdict. Judge Amy St. Eve told them to go back and deliberate again until they did. The jury said that’s what we were trying to do. The judge said well you better go try some more. We’ll keep you posted on this riveting courtroom drama.

The World Conference on Disaster Management wraps up today at the Toronto Convention Centre. Torontoist would go but we’re locked in the basement with a tire iron and a two-year supply of Beefaroni.

In related news, Avril Lavigne has lashed out at critics who say she doesn’t write her own songs. She’s quoted in the Globe as saying, "All songs share similar lyrics and emotions. As humans we speak one language." Avril claims to be fluent in Humanese.

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Comments (4)

I'm from the Disaster Anti-Defamation League and I'm saddened by your perpetuation of stereotypes about disasters. Most disasters are hard-working phenomena that just want the same rights and respect everyone else gets.

 

It's pretty amazing that the TTC is not doing the Philadelphia-style SEPTA death-spiral (high fares = fewer riders = higher fares = even fewer riders...) despite charging the highest fares in North America for single rides or passes.

What more argument can be made that the agency needs stable funding from SENIOR governments? You know, as in the governments that pay for mass transit as a regional and national public good in every other country on earth?

 

Ironic that the World Conference on Disaster Management website is temporarily unavailable?
I guessed they weren't prepared?

 

Methinks Avril doth protest too much.

 
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