A Picture of A Sleeping Toronto Transit Commission Worker has Ignited a Firestorm of Controversy.
Last week, a young man snapped a photo of a sleeping Toronto Transit Commission (TTC) worker. Given the age that we live in, the man uploaded the image to his Twitter account and the image went viral almost immediately.
No wonder . . .
The TTC is in a shambles. Fares are continually increased while the level of service is in a seemingly perpetual free-fall. The worst part of the whole matter is that the system’s administration holds ridership in contempt, not itself. Speaking to the Toronto Star, Transit Union President Bob Kinnear had the audacity to publicly shame not the worker in question, but the man who took the photo saying “it is very discouraging that the picture taker and, apparently, other customers, made no attempt to determine if there was anything wrong with this TTC employee . . . The reports that passengers were laughing at him as they passed by the booth makes this even more disturbing.”
People are fed up, plain and simple and instances like this only feed the palpable anger that seethes through the Toronto transit system.
This is why fully automated transit systems are the only way to go. With the transit technologies we have today (whether it be cable or whatever), we simply don’t need ticket takers and drivers wasting the public’s time and money . . . and apparently the worker in the photo above couldn’t agree more.
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Pathetic. Riding the current populist anger to promote your silly cable transit proposal. You should not be justifying building extremely expensive systems because of a few bad employees. Of course, it seems the public have lost interest in your gadgetbahnen idea.
Justin,
I’m not riding “populist anger” so much as I’m demonstrating an exact, real-world example of why fully-automated transit systems are useful at trimming operational costs. Furthermore, if you notice, I said “cable transit or whatever.” Could you also please cite which cable transit systems you know of that are “extremely expensive”?