Results tagged “scarboroughrt”

The above headline is an anagram for the Better Way. Inspired by a recent anagram map of the London Underground blogger RobotJohny does a similar map of the TTC. The results are often poetic. The stations of the Scarborough RT in particular lent themselves to anagrams like "Arborescent Grouch" (Scarborough Centre), "Morrocan Wad" (McCowan Road). We also think that "A Warmer Soupy Butt" should be the TTC's new slogan.

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.