Eye Weekly was inspired by a suggestion by Ed Drass, the transit columnist of the daily commuter paper Metro, that the two seats currently open on the TTC should be filled by non-politicians. Since 1990, all of the seats on the Commission have been filled by city councillors, so this move would be a break with tradition. But as Drass pointed out, services as important as the police have non-elected citizen commissioners. Eye‘s editorial this week has some suggestions about who would best fill the two available slots: Steve Munro, a TTC actvist; James Bow of Transit Toronto, the most in-depth archive of Toronto’s tranit system; and, most excitingly, Spacing‘s publisher Matthew Blackett, who was cited as someone who could help market the TTC and help build the mythology of our experiences on subways and buses.
Also check out Spacing‘s subway station button collection that is featured in Eye‘s gift guide section.
