Results tagged “rockettalk”

When will the TTC open subway doors earlier than its current wake-up call of approximately 9 a.m. on Sunday mornings?

My question has to do with buying tickets/passes from the ticket booths in the subway stations. I find it very inconvenient that the TTC does not accept debit payments at the ticket booths when I need to buy my tokens. In order for me to get cash, I have to get off the TTC system, go to an ATM and then get back on to a bus/subway. Why not even have automated vending machines that users could use their credit cards or debit cards to buy fares (there used to be vending machines, but I haven't noticed them lately)? If I can buy gas at the pump with my debit card, there must be a way that I can buy TTC fares too.

Here's my question—since the rush-hour crowding at St. George is verging on the very dangerous, why not put the moving sidewalks back in at Spadina and promote the use of Spadina as a transfer station?

Why doesn't the City use electric trolley buses instead of streetcars? These at least have the advantage of being able to change lanes (so as to not block two lanes when dropping off passengers).

I'm sure I'm not the only one to notice, but there's a very (often painfully) loud squealing noise while subways come to a halt and streetcars turn, but it doesn't appear to happen to all streetcars/subways. What's the cause of the noise and is there any plan to fix it?

The subway has significant delays or issues from time to time, whether technical, human, or weather related. I can see the screens or hear the PA while I wait on the platform. But riders already on the trains rarely get announcements about problems on the other line, which makes it frustrating to arrive at Yonge/Bloor or St. George to discover that platforms are packed, trains are turning back a few stations away, or running fifteen minutes apart. Why can't the TTC make effective system-wide announcements so commuters know whether to switch to a bus or streetcar to en route, or continue to another crossover station?

Why is the configuration of seats on the streetcar and subway the way it is? Couldn't more people be accommodated with bench seating running all along the sides?

Could you please explain the TTC's position on this matter?

I live in Mimico, and head west to Humber College every weekday, and east to downtown at least a couple times a week. Why do the streetcars arrive bunched up in groups of 2 and 3 so often? I understand that delays happen, but it is becoming frustratingly frequent.

It's been a little over two years since Adam Giambrone became Chair of the TTC, and a little less than one since Brad Ross joined him to become the organization's Director of Communications. Now, it's hard to imagine the TTC without them: Giambrone has ushered in improvement after improvement, as well as shepherded Transit City, a plan so ambitious it hardly seems Torontonian; and Ross has kept the public, the media, Twitter users, and Torontoist commenters all in the loop.