{"id":1137,"date":"2008-07-21T23:14:56","date_gmt":"2008-07-22T04:14:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spacingmontreal.ca\/2008\/07\/21\/the-gazette-wants-your-transit-complaints\/"},"modified":"2013-01-21T11:27:47","modified_gmt":"2013-01-21T16:27:47","slug":"the-gazette-wants-your-transit-complaints","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/montreal\/2008\/07\/21\/the-gazette-wants-your-transit-complaints\/","title":{"rendered":"The Gazette wants your transit complaints"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/christopherdewolf\/353301253\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm1.static.flickr.com\/123\/353301253_4c6a6e542c.jpg?v=0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Gazette wants to hear you complain about public transit. Oops, sorry &#8212; I mean it wants you to ask intelligent questions about public transit. That&#8217;s the goal of a new column that invites questions from readers that will be answered by someone from the STM. In the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.canada.com\/montrealgazette\/news\/story.html?id=cd9204f7-4e33-48d3-bed1-70b4c243d319\">inaugural edition<\/a>, one reader asks why the metro car doors close so quickly. &#8220;I was caught between the doors about a month ago and thankfully, my backpack took most of the blow. I bore a bruise on my upper arm for almost a month due to this incident,&#8221; she notes. A valid questions, certainly, but perhaps not the best note on which to start this column. As Fagstein <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.fagstein.com\/2008\/07\/21\/gazette-starts-transit-column\/\">opines on his blog<\/a>, it seems headed towards a doomed fate as a sort of rant line in which people write in to complain about how the bus didn&#8217;t come that one time. <\/p>\n<p>I love the idea of a regular Q&#038;A with transit agency representatives about public transport in Montreal. But I think the Gazette has gotten off on the wrong foot. Readers&#8217; questions should be solicited, certainly, but I think a column of this nature would work much better if it was based on more pointed questions about why Montreal&#8217;s transit system works the way it does and what is being done to improve it for transit users. The STM is a pretty reticent organization&#8212;it tends not to divulge details about what it&#8217;s doing until they have deemed completely fit for public consumption&#8212;and many Montrealers, even those who rely entirely on public transit, are unaware of what&#8217;s happening with their bus and metro system. Maybe I&#8217;m just too cynical, and the public really will come up with some excellent questions, but if the Gazette is willing to devote space to a column on public transit, I wish they would do more with it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Gazette wants to hear you complain about public transit. Oops, sorry &#8212; I mean it wants you to ask intelligent questions about public transit. That&#8217;s the goal of a new column that invites questions from readers that will be answered by someone from the STM. 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