14 Replies to “Relying on Mass Transit Is Like Inviting 20 Random Hitchhikers to Tune Your Car”
Chinese hackers learning how to shut down public transportation systems in major western cities…..perhaps!
Call me a Luddite but I wonder if we have begun to depend to much on the web of electronic and micro-processor technology.
How dare the system fail at the Centre Of The Universe? Livers will be self-consumed, tempers will be displayed, solutions to this problem MUST be found. Think I’ll have another coffee and bless my stars that I’m no longer part of that . . . . that . . . . society.
Ah The Meme again! I am currently in Amsterdam and have been renewing my knowledge of its tram system. Which is clean, efficient, and designed to deliver the maximum discomfort for a good price.
So why not step down from the tram and walk? And face hordes of mad suicidal/homicidal bicyclists, coming at you from every direction, bells ringing crazily!!
Or take a taxi? About $30 to get anywhere, a real bonerattler while on the way.
Or rent or buy your own car? Few North Americans have the guts to face Dutch traffic. The drivers are even more homicidal/suicidal than the bicyclists.
Take The Car.
TTC = Take The Car.
Y2015K
It was the TTC’s old radio communications system which had a failure, not Chinese hackers or microprocessor technology.
John Lewis, the day you want to walk 30 km to work, I’m sure thousands will join you.
No. cgh, it was more than that, according to the story. They also lost the ability to send out “e-alerts” to customers to advise them of the shutdown. Sounds like whatever computer houses their comms capability was compromised. Probably some bored, unfireable union drone surfing Russian pr0n sites on the night shift.
robw >
Can’t rule out Muslims, everyone thinks it on one level or another.
The great flaw in all public transit:
People don’t use public transit because they want to. They use it because they have to.
Two comments:
First, TTC means “Take the cycle”. From April to November, weather permitting, I ride the 8.5 km from my home to the office. Been doing so since last year, and in the last 12 months, have lost 24 pounds. Cheaper than a gym, and at 30 minutes each way, actually quicker than the TTC, and only about 10 minutes slower than a car. Realize this won’t work for everybody, but even from my last apartment, I’d take transit part way and ride the rest.
Second, anyone who thinks this was an accident needs a good head shake. This was a pre-planned ‘outage’ to prepare everyone in the GTA for the horror show which will be known as the “PanAm games”. It’s a month away, and already people are getting worried. No one’s making any plans, mind you – this is Toronto, after all – but they are upset about the miserable traffic we will endure for 2.5 weeks.
Well, ‘we’ is a bit of an overstatement, as my GF and I are fleeing town for the Games’ duration. Where are we going? Funnily enough, Amsterdam and Dublin, so I’ll get a first hand crack at those Amsterdam streets that John L. seems so a-skeert of. I’ll post something when I get back.
(last second edit: my captcha was “WMD 4 (for) G8” – kinda radical for you, Kate!
public transit=====black taxis…….the lieberals and welfarers will now have to walk, the horror of it all
Edmonton is clearly stupider than Toronto. Edmonton spends a billion dollars and will end up waiting 2 years after the completion of construction to get the software to work. http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/oft-delayed-nait-lrt-line-set-to-open-this-spring-1.2927060
The article is 5 months old and opening the line isn’t anywhere in sight. There have to be some seriously stupid people involved here.
Scar, all the transit nonsense – Toronto, Edmonton, Vancouver – makes sense when you realize one simple thing:
Public transit exists to provide jobs for its unions. Service to the public is not the priority; maintaining the number of jobs, increasing salaries, and beating back competition (Uber, etc.) is. Carrying people from one place to another is a necessary ordeal they go through, and you can see as much in the attitude of most (not all – I’ve met some honourable TTC employees) workers.
Chinese hackers learning how to shut down public transportation systems in major western cities…..perhaps!
Call me a Luddite but I wonder if we have begun to depend to much on the web of electronic and micro-processor technology.
How dare the system fail at the Centre Of The Universe? Livers will be self-consumed, tempers will be displayed, solutions to this problem MUST be found. Think I’ll have another coffee and bless my stars that I’m no longer part of that . . . . that . . . . society.
Ah The Meme again! I am currently in Amsterdam and have been renewing my knowledge of its tram system. Which is clean, efficient, and designed to deliver the maximum discomfort for a good price.
So why not step down from the tram and walk? And face hordes of mad suicidal/homicidal bicyclists, coming at you from every direction, bells ringing crazily!!
Or take a taxi? About $30 to get anywhere, a real bonerattler while on the way.
Or rent or buy your own car? Few North Americans have the guts to face Dutch traffic. The drivers are even more homicidal/suicidal than the bicyclists.
Take The Car.
TTC = Take The Car.
Y2015K
It was the TTC’s old radio communications system which had a failure, not Chinese hackers or microprocessor technology.
John Lewis, the day you want to walk 30 km to work, I’m sure thousands will join you.
No. cgh, it was more than that, according to the story. They also lost the ability to send out “e-alerts” to customers to advise them of the shutdown. Sounds like whatever computer houses their comms capability was compromised. Probably some bored, unfireable union drone surfing Russian pr0n sites on the night shift.
robw >
Can’t rule out Muslims, everyone thinks it on one level or another.
The great flaw in all public transit:
People don’t use public transit because they want to. They use it because they have to.
Two comments:
First, TTC means “Take the cycle”. From April to November, weather permitting, I ride the 8.5 km from my home to the office. Been doing so since last year, and in the last 12 months, have lost 24 pounds. Cheaper than a gym, and at 30 minutes each way, actually quicker than the TTC, and only about 10 minutes slower than a car. Realize this won’t work for everybody, but even from my last apartment, I’d take transit part way and ride the rest.
Second, anyone who thinks this was an accident needs a good head shake. This was a pre-planned ‘outage’ to prepare everyone in the GTA for the horror show which will be known as the “PanAm games”. It’s a month away, and already people are getting worried. No one’s making any plans, mind you – this is Toronto, after all – but they are upset about the miserable traffic we will endure for 2.5 weeks.
Well, ‘we’ is a bit of an overstatement, as my GF and I are fleeing town for the Games’ duration. Where are we going? Funnily enough, Amsterdam and Dublin, so I’ll get a first hand crack at those Amsterdam streets that John L. seems so a-skeert of. I’ll post something when I get back.
(last second edit: my captcha was “WMD 4 (for) G8” – kinda radical for you, Kate!
public transit=====black taxis…….the lieberals and welfarers will now have to walk, the horror of it all
Edmonton is clearly stupider than Toronto. Edmonton spends a billion dollars and will end up waiting 2 years after the completion of construction to get the software to work.
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/oft-delayed-nait-lrt-line-set-to-open-this-spring-1.2927060
The article is 5 months old and opening the line isn’t anywhere in sight. There have to be some seriously stupid people involved here.
Scar, all the transit nonsense – Toronto, Edmonton, Vancouver – makes sense when you realize one simple thing:
Public transit exists to provide jobs for its unions. Service to the public is not the priority; maintaining the number of jobs, increasing salaries, and beating back competition (Uber, etc.) is. Carrying people from one place to another is a necessary ordeal they go through, and you can see as much in the attitude of most (not all – I’ve met some honourable TTC employees) workers.