June 12, 2008
Goodbye To Tickets, Speaker's Corner, And The Seattle Mariners
The TTC wants to get rid of adult tickets, using only tokens for adults to combat counterfeiters. In a move to placate ticket fans, Adam Giambrone promises to look into ways to create tokens that will be ruined when you forget to take them out of your pants and put them through the washing machine.
Dalton McGuinty defended the tax incentives received by Young People Fucking yesterday, explaining that while certain people might be very shocked by the adult-oriented romantic comedy, the movie's tax incentives were immediately balanced out by the income tax paid on the crew's salaries. He then told everybody up in arms about the "controversial" movie to go get a life. Well, he didn't, but we wish he had.
John McCain will give a speech about free trade next week in Ottawa. Over-under on the number of times McCain says "my friends": forty-seven. Get those bets in now!
CityTV plans to cancel Speaker's Corner. Staff at CityTV explained that Speaker's Corner, while a valued Toronto tradition beloved by millons, was not nearly so important as upholding Rogers Media's contractual obligations ensuring that anything the media giant absorbs begins to suck.
And the Mariners beat the Blue Jays again, as our generous, big-hearted team let Seattle leave with its first road-series victory since April. Whatta buncha guys!
Image via TTC/Crime Stoppers.
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Now if only the TTC could figure out how to set up a debit card fare system, or a zone fare, or some other common-sense method of improving their payment methods. I never did understand the need for adult tickets.
And is anybody surprised that Rogers is destroying everything that makes CityTV CityTV?
As much as I love to hate Rogers, to blame them for CityTV's suckage seems unfair.. To this casual observer it seems like it must have been at least five years ago they decided to replace 99% of their original programming with shitty bottom of the barrel reality TV..
It's gotta be a matter of time before someone invents two more clones of "The Bachelor", and City replaces the News and Breakfast Television, thus completing their transformation.
It'll set you back $2,000 for a table of 10 (or 5,000 for a premium table of 10; nothing less than tables of 10 available) to hear an old man tell you about walking to Vietnam up hill both ways.
To be fair, the Speakers Corner booth was shut down, and relocated to a virtually unnoticable place (inside the old Much Store) as soon as CTV took-over and before Rogers entered the picture.
Of course interest died. The prominent corner booth was the source of great content, not some silly stand-up kiosk in a store.
Anyhow, I agree about the current lack of original Citytv content. CTV (who I have a growing hatred for) pruned-off most of the good stuff to keep for themselves, since it had all grown into CHUM's cable channels. There's not much left to work with, and Rogers seems incapable of thinking anything new up.
Getting rid of ticket would be terrible for me.
They have a knack of falling out of a wallet.
Tickets don't. This isn't a preference thing - tokens just don't work for a good chunk of the population - people without purses.
Like Astin said a stored value card would be even better. It could replace tickets, tokens, metropasses, daypasses, etc. Like NYC. Tokens
belong in the 18th century.
Sorry, I'm not going to travel all the way to a subway station to buy tokens for a streetcar.
Not going to pay the ripoff cash fare either.
Tokens and tickets are so 20th century.
Damn that good for nothing 20th century.
I am ashamed to say that I am also "so 20th century." I try to hide it, but in fact, I was born in 1983.
Svend
According to TTC apolog- er... PR dude Brad Ross some corner stores are already selling tokens.
Tickets and tokens may be "20th century", but they don't require expensive electronic systems to implement (just a simple mechanical farebox), and they don't break down. Ever.