Results tagged “everystationclub”

This summer, Torontoist wanted to do something fun. Something TTC-y. So they've hired me (ok, some of my Metropass is covered each month) to visit and photograph every TTC station on the map throughout the months of May, June, July, and August - no more than one a day, in order. This project will simply be called 69, for the 69 TTC stations across our city. Yeah, 69. We're that edgy. The project will...

We own the TTC. We paid for it with tax dollars and at the farebox. But this month the city had to PAY Viacom Outdoor Ltd for permission to promote the "Live with Culture" campaign on the TTC because Viacom has exclusive rights to all advertising on the transit system. Essentially, tax dollars were spent to buy back space we already own.

There are those who ride transit to get from point A to point B, and there are those who revel in the pure awesomeness of urban transit: the number of employees and passengers involved every day; the huge impact it has on people's lives; the enormous infrastructure required. Usually after a number of years living in Toronto, people in the latter group begin to mentally check off the stations they've used, and look forward to using stations they've never been to before, perhaps with the hopes of one day joining The Every Station Club.