Riding Mass Transit Is Like Inviting 20 Random Hitchhikers Into Your Car

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1. No smoking:
   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UcE7Vlzt5PA

2. Sky Deutschland has developed technology to transfer adverts from train windows directly and silently into commuters’ heads.
   Passengers leaning their head against the window will “hear” adverts “coming from inside the user’s head”, urging them to download the Sky Go app.
   http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/mediatechnologyandtelecoms/media/10158311/Sky-Deutschland-to-broadcast-adverts-directly-into-train-passengers-heads.html

3. Well, at least the other passengers were not bored.

4. I recently attended a reunion of my engineering class in Toronto. I took the subway down — it was fast efficient despite having to walk 8 blocks to the hotel. After the event I walked to the Spadina dedicated streetcar line and found it took 4x-5x the same time to go to bloor street — to add insult to injury the streetcar was overpacked and I had to wait 10-15 minutes for the streetcar.
   The socialist councillors in our city are pushing for LRT’s — essentially overglorified streetcars and have resisted our mayor’s call for subways. every world class city I ever visited had subways NOT LRT’s. So what the f***?
   The tunnels they are digging for LRTs are 4ft+ greater in diameter so could not costs be saved by going to subways? They are placing 20 km of the eglington line underline — so why not subways?
   LRT has a different rail gage than streetcars and subways and Scraborough RT line — so do we need more incompatible rolling stock?
   I think some common sence needs to be introduced into Toronto even if it is via a common sense revolution 🙂
   I often think that out city councillors especially of the NDP ilk are on drugs — Councillor Fletcher (former head of the Communist Party in Manitoba d’ohh) had pushed forward to spend two million dollars plus to light up the bloor viaduct over the don river — well could this not be put aside for “rapid transit”? Councillor Perks wants to restrict the growth of private business along various streets thus kill redevelopment of what is known as slum districts. :O
   I often thought their proposals were on drugs — they accuse the mayor of such “thoughts” yet their thoughts seem to be some deep halucinogenic type of drugs — no common sense
   We need subways — they are the only real rapid transit in a world class city

5. As an aside, I did work in Burlington for 3 years.
   The QEW was under construction for 8-10 years where when I traveled the highway (9 out of 10) times there were no workers on site doing anything yet the traffic chaos was great and in a way hurt the economy of ontario in increased travel times. We will not speak about the incompetence — where the f*** was the inspectors?
   I lived in Calgary in 2002 yet they paved a 6-10 km strech of Mcleod Trail over two weekends — weekend #1 was strip the pavement, and weekend #2 was pave both layers of pavement — that is efficient — In Toronto the city workers ripped up 1.6 km of road, did not replace the concrete yet took close to 2 years to pave the road — WTF — yes you did not hear that wrong. They then paved the road so poorly that with new shocks I could drive at 40 kph and still have the car bounce like it was hit by major artillery.
   This was done under our previous NDP mayor — our NDP councillors are in full defence mode.
   They are the problem