{"id":1820,"date":"2007-04-26T14:53:41","date_gmt":"2007-04-26T18:53:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spacingtoronto.ca\/?p=1820"},"modified":"2007-04-26T14:53:41","modified_gmt":"2007-04-26T18:53:41","slug":"city-hall-the-ttc-wants-your-complaints","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/2007\/04\/26\/city-hall-the-ttc-wants-your-complaints\/","title":{"rendered":"City Hall: The TTC wants your complaints"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/images\/subway-0048.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>Cross-posted from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eyeweekly.com\/daily\/\">Eye Daily.\u00a0<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>The TTC is planning to conduct a survey asking riders about the cleanliness and state of repair of its stations and vehicles. Councillor <a href=\"http:\/\/www.toronto.ca\/councillors\/mihevc1.htm\">Joe Mihevc <\/a>has also proposed that it conduct a cleanliness audit of its stations to measure just how clean (or dirty) they actually are. You can read about both proposals <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thestar.com\/Unassigned\/article\/207032\">in today&#8217;s Toronto Star. <\/a><\/p>\n<p>According to progress reports, the TTC is less grungy than it used to be. More night staff and powerful cleaning equipment have resulted in 40 subway stations meeting the city&#8217;s high cleaning standards this year between January and March, compared with a measly six stations during the same months the year before. Has anyone else noticed a difference? Do you find that certain stations that are dirtier than others?<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps if TTC&#8217;s vehicles and stations were cleaner, TTC riders would respect them more. A couple months ago while on the subway, I sat a few seats down from two teenage girls sharing a bag of ketchup chips. I watched, fuming, as one of the girls took chips from the bag and licked off the flavouring before tossing them, uneaten, on the floor. I was so angry that I couldn&#8217;t bring myself to say anything for fear it would come out all jumbled and wrong, but perhaps I should have sacrificed my pride for the good of public transit. I remember wishing I had a camera on my cell phone so that I could immortalize the teens on Youtube in the same way that Shawn Micallef caught <a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/\/?p=990\">\u00e2\u20ac\u0153cheaters\u00e2\u20ac\u009d budding in line for the Toronto Island ferry<\/a> last summer and posted their photos on the Spacing Wire.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.eyeweekly.com\/daily\/?p=253\">Click here to post a comment.\u00a0<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cross-posted from Eye Daily.\u00a0 The TTC is planning to conduct a survey asking riders about the cleanliness and state of repair of its stations and vehicles. Councillor Joe Mihevc has also proposed that it conduct a cleanliness audit of its stations to measure just how clean (or dirty) they actually are. You can read about<a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/2007\/04\/26\/city-hall-the-ttc-wants-your-complaints\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"sr-only\">&#8220;City Hall: The TTC wants your complaints&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4003,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[865,408,552,5530,22085,310,247,341,3407],"class_list":["post-1820","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-transit","tag-cellular-telephone","tag-councillor","tag-joe-mihevc","tag-ketchup-chips","tag-politics","tag-shawn-micallef","tag-toronto-island","tag-toronto-star","tag-youtube"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>City Hall: The TTC wants your complaints - Spacing Toronto<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/2007\/04\/26\/city-hall-the-ttc-wants-your-complaints\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"City Hall: The TTC wants your complaints - Spacing Toronto\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Cross-posted from Eye Daily.\u00a0 The TTC is planning to conduct a survey asking riders about the cleanliness and state of repair of its stations and vehicles. 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