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TTC Transit Stuff Keeps on Short-Turnin’

By Stephen Michalowicz

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TTC Transit Stuff’s future is looking pretty bleak. The much maligned TTC merch store, which is run by Woodbridge-based Legacy Sportswear, has been collecting dust in Union Station since it closed at the end of May, and despite a company notice to the contrary, it doesn’t look like it’s coming back anytime soon.


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Since our last report on the subject, Legacy has posted a message on the wall of their store that claims that they’re “hoping to reopen and reallocate”—we assume they mean relocate. The message also states that their “new website should be up for online shopping by the end of June.” Well, June has come and gone, and Legacy’s site still says that it’s “Coming Soon.” Perhaps they’re still working on a way to “reallocate” the necessary funds.
To get some answers, we tried contacting Rick Ferri, Legacy’s owner, but he seems to be perpetually out of the office, and the company’s phone line goes straight to voicemail.
We also spoke with Danny Nicholson, the TTC’s corporate communications supervisor. He told Torontoist that the TTC’s licensing contract with Legacy is set to expire at the end of 2011, but he wasn’t able to comment on the company’s future or whether the contract would be renewed or not.
Oh well, at least for now, we know that if Transit Stuff does return, Legacy “will contunue offerring quanlity [sic] TTC product[s].”
Photos by Stephen Michalowicz/Torontoist.

Comments

  • http://undefined PSC-TO

    … that’s “will continue offerring quanlity [sic] TTC product”

  • http://undefined smc

    If the TTC has any common sense they will give the contract to those guys at Spacing magazine. If those buttons are any indication, they are clearly up to the task. Not to mention that it would be a natural fit based on content, etc.

  • rek

    That is the worst sign I’ve ever seen.

  • http://theintrepid.blogspot.com/ Stephen Michalowicz

    Sometimes spell check isn’t your friend.

  • http://undefined Ben

    Yes,
    No one ever really liked the Legacy designs. Spacing would do a much better job. But the Teet would probably prefer a partner that doesn’t make a living offering constructive criticisms of them.

  • http://undefined dowlingm

    Organisations like Spacing would have a tough time getting through TTC Procurement (even if they decided to make their sideline their main business).
    Legacy is a pretty good word to describe the TTC – at least in the definition “of, relating to, or being a previous or outdated … system” – at least that’s the impression you get from their stations, their handwritten and/or out of date information posters, and the dewiring trolley poles the new streetcars will be fitted with for service downtown.

  • http://bit.ly/accozzaglia accozzaglia

    Organisations like Spacing would have a tough time getting through TTC Procurement

    And that there is pretty much it, what with the station apparel series that TTC marketing approved, but TTC’s highly efficient procurement has since left it to sit and languish to die all crusty and mummified. As I watched it (twice) at cinema, I thought it would have been pretty awesome to see one of these being worn in Scott Pilgrim vs. The World.
    Consumers need to ignite a blindingly hot, white fire under procurement’s bum. Maybe then they’ll be arsed to budge. I’m not holding my breath.

  • David Toronto

    Preview
    Did you or anyone else notice the word
    “reallocate”? I believe they meant
    “relocate”
    If their spelling is any indication of
    their business practises . . . .

  • thelemur

    Practices, even. The whole sign is a damning indictment of Legacy’s sense of aesthetics and the TTC’s not much better.

  • http://undefined Matt

    Spacing approached the TTC with the idea first, and they weren’t interested.

  • http://bit.ly/accozzaglia accozzaglia

    No Ben, it doesn’t really matter who the TTC prefers as a partner. Were that the case, then something else would have happened by now.

  • http://bit.ly/accozzaglia accozzaglia

    Word.

  • http://undefined joeclark

    We are all battle-weary from the endless ground war against TTC’s epic bad taste, an embarrassment even by accepted standards of Toronto mediocrity. You can tell by the fact that nobody here can really muster much in the way of outrage.

  • http://bit.ly/accozzaglia accozzaglia

    I sometimes wonder whether there are enough of us (i.e., you, me, Matthew Blackett, etc.) to coalesce together around some strong push to get Procurement to act already, or to just get the entire TTC machine moving forward. But as you concluded, I think the fight is slowly drained like an exsanguination until all that’s left is just a lifeless corpse.
    I credit a lack of external accountability for which the TTC never has to confront.