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Originally posted by dEsidEL the first alert came in sometime last nite:

DAMN. WHY DID I NOT SUBSCRIBE TO THESE ?!?!? I always check my e-mail before sleep and I was up til 1ish. I couldve gotten a ride downtown had I known. Wouldve had to wake up at 6 rather than 7, but I wouldve been at class on time. Now I've made 5 stops progress in 45 minutes.

Lesson learned.

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Originally posted by dEsidEL ultimately, it's us voters who are to blame. we elect these clowns and either support/oppose their decisions. if transit was as serious an issue as we all think it is, it would be a major election issue enough so that it could make or break the outcome. i think we all need to do our part by continually writing and speaking to our elected officials to make them understand how serious an issue this is. enough people use public transit within the GTA to make this a major political issue, but i honestly don't think they do. we'll all be quick to complain, but won't actually do anything about it (myself included).

I completely agree, and this type of mentality actually goes for all levels of government, and their constituents. Ever ask somebody to call their rep and do something? The answer is always the same 'yeah, what is my one phone call/letter going to do?'. People truly do feel that they have no clout in the political process, and that their only duty is the one vote they cast every four years, if that.

Unfortunately I never had the ability to vote in Toronto during a municipal election, as I only actually lived in the city for a couple of years. During the last federal election, I specifically asked the candidates in my area about their transit plans, which was actually one of the deciding factors for me, along with the carbon tax.

But you have a good point, that we do not hold these people accountable, and we need to put greater pressure on them to perform in a more consistent and thoughtful manner, rather than with knee jerk reactions when their jobs are on the line. We need a transit rider's federation, like we have a tax payer's federation. hmm...

more in-fighting... really can't wait for most of these bureaucrats to get old and die so we can start to build a more efficient transit system..

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Metrolinx frames TTC as regional obstacle Torstar News Service 16 January 2009 05:40 Metrolinx wants the province to designate it a mega-transit authority, with the power to decide where TTC and other regional transit systems will pick up passengers, and which fares and transfers riders use when crossing city borders. In a frank report to the Metrolinx board — hastily withdrawn earlier this week from the online agenda for Friday’s meeting — Metrolinx staff accuse the TTC of being the major obstacle to a fully integrated route and fare system in the Toronto region. The kind of seamless transit service throughout the Toronto-Hamilton area envisioned by Metrolinx, says the report, will never happen if it’s left up to the municipal transit agencies. The TTC, by far the largest of the nine involved, still hasn’t committed to the proposed Metrolinx fare card, called Presto.The TTC has told Metrolinx it is no longer interested in a cost-sharing agreement that would have seen the TTC cede this duplicate service to Mississauga and York Region and save taxpayers about $1.5 million annually, according to Metrolinx.

source:
http://www.metronews.ca/toronto/local/article/167519

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Last edited by dEsidEL on Jan-16-2009 at 15:53

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Originally posted by MikeyN DAMN. WHY DID I NOT SUBSCRIBE TO THESE ?!?!? I always check my e-mail before sleep and I was up til 1ish. I couldve gotten a ride downtown had I known. Wouldve had to wake up at 6 rather than 7, but I wouldve been at class on time. Now I've made 5 stops progress in 45 minutes. Lesson learned.

what I don't like is that they don't tell you when the service has been restored.

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Originally posted by MikeyN so who got their alerts that power is out from jane to St. George? FUCK.

I got the first one around 10...
And I've gotten about 10 more saying what looks to be the exact same thing since then. Kind of annoying!

Sigh. I'm going to have to sign up to this, now that I will be in TO more often again.

It would have been nice to have this service tonight. I waited 45 minutes for a bus that's supposed to run every 15 minutes at school.

That's exactly what we have been talking about. Who cares about the damned subway, give us alerts for the buses!


For those who cannot check email on your phone: you can usually forward mail to your phone through a text message. For me, I tell Gmail to forward all my mail to my phone through the following email address: [email protected]. Those email addresses are available for most providers.

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* Rogers Wireless: [10-digit phone number]@pcs.rogers.com * Fido: [10-digit phone number]@fido.ca * Telus: [10-digit phone number]@msg.telus.com * Bell Mobility: [10-digit phone number]@txt.bell.ca * Kudo Mobile: [10-digit phone number]@msg.koodomobile.com * MTS: [10-digit phone number]@text.mtsmobility.com * President’s Choice: [10-digit phone number]@txt.bell.ca * Sasktel: [10-digit phone number]@sms.sasktel.com * Solo: [10-digit phone number]@txt.bell.ca * Virgin: [10-digit phone number]@vmobile.ca

So you can use this work around until we get text message updates straight from the TTC.