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  2. Between $100k and $200k to fight stop announcements – again… remind me again why the TTC has a funding crisis?

  3. Mark: I’m actually relieved it was only that much. Sad.

  4. Maybe this will mean bus drivers will actually have to learn their routes?

  5. Critical Mass today! Hope it doesn’t rain.

  6. Re: Economist article

    I believe Jeffrey Simpson writes most of the Economist’s stories on Canada. They’re edited into the standard Economist tone + format and published unattributed, but it’s not an outsider writing about us as far as I know.

  7. I can imagine why calling out all the stops might be burdensome, I don’t expect this to change every route right away. I am sure night routes, especially, will just trundle along without any announcements.

    Most of us 300-series riders are drunk anyway, hah.

    I think driving a subway train has been compared to watching a one hour movie of a dark tunnel ten times in a row, so I can imagine driving a bus or streetcar (even though I have fantasized about the latter) to be similarly tedious.

    Punctuating it with the same street names over and over just adds to that tedium.

    That said, I’m glad the lawyer won.

  8. I was on a streetcar last week and saw a new gadget next to the one the controls the route sign on the the front of the bus. This buttons on this new gadget gave me the impression that it was meant to call out pre-programmed information. It had options like “A little further back, please.” and “Please be aware of vehicles while exiting the vehicle.”

    With the number of drivers that call out the stops anyway, it’s hard to believe this was worth 200K to fight.

  9. Josh: Not to mention the drivers who SING the stops.

  10. While HRTO gets its act together sending the decision to CANLII for publication, I have posted my own version. As the tribunal found, TTC didn’t submit any actual evidence, just supposition.

    Your tax dollars at work.