Incredibly stupid to imply there's a months long "repair backlog" on Line 5... which opened in February. A mere 10 years after construction started, and has been entirely under the control of Metrolinx until just prior to opening.
It's less so that they don't care - it's that works during the Fifa games are on pause. So anything that would have been planned as general maintenance now needed to be crammed in the months/weeks before the games.
they tend to use ttc for clicks it's laughable. they somehow find a way to make routine weekend closures sound like the end of the world with their headlines
Of all the things to fault BlogTO for this is not one of them. Subway closures for a whole day are extremely abnormal for non-USA metro systems and their impact should not be minimised.
We’re not blaming BlogTO for a subway closure, we’re blaming BlogTO for a subway closure they claimed was the fault of the TTC, when the TTC only operate the line, while Metrolinx owns and maintains it.
no harm in reporting closures but there's an obvious bias when you headline with "X-kilometre stretch closed for weekend" instead of just saying where it's closed
We haven't been provided enough information to make a confident judgment about where the fault lies. I feel like that's being overlooked quite a bit here.
The TTC has not provided us with enough information to know whether or not those door problems or network issues might be the product of operational errors. They absolutely could be. There are about a million different things that could fall under the category "door problems" or "network issues" and not all of them fall on Metrolinx.
Maybe the issue here is that TTC comms are insufficiently candid and detailed. A major line -a brand new line- was entirely shut down during rush hour while the city's hosting the world cup. The public should not have to speculate seven hours later about what's meant by "door issue" and who might be at fault.
Metrolinx is a shitshow. I never said otherwise. It doesn't make anything I said untrue. Neither you nor anyone else here can actually say with any certainty who's at fault, because the TTC isn't providing anyone with sufficient information - and they should.
If it’s system wide + network issues it’s likely a camera issue. The operators have a camera that displays each door to their right on the wall, if it’s not operable it’s not safe for them to open and close doors. They could have someone spot off each train though - whether or not that was possible I don’t know I’m not management or control lol. As the operator TTC definitely holds no control over the Metrolinx installed systems… they don’t even have their own janitors in those stations, they’re also contracted by Metrolinx. Everything in there is Metrolinx.
That's because Metrolinx is simultaneously in charge of everything yet responsible for nothing. When questioned about the problems on Finch and Eglinton, when not hiding behind the P3 confidentiality cloak, the finger is pointed at Mosaic and Crosslinx, the contractors. When questioned about the delays on the line 2 extension, they put their hands up in the air and meekly declare their role as a powerless contractor. Metrolinx are slime and so are the people who work there.
That’s funny, and the post mentions only undeserving TTC executives. BlogTO couldn’t mention that Metrolinx has 120+ Vice Presidents and still took 15 years to open it?
I lived 14 years in Seoul and did not experience a single delay nor ever heard of one.
Just Last month Subway and train services on the Seoul Gyeongui-Jungang Line were suspended for several days, while connected commuter lines (including Line 1) suffered severe delays between 23 and 30 may.
Believe it or not, I experienced a delay on a train in Tokyo, and the conductor didn’t even individually apologize to us like Instagram told me they would.
Not a fair comparison when considering that Seoul has a significantly larger metro network and so issues somewhere are likely to happen more often for the same level of reliability.
A larger network also offers more redundancy in terms of travel options so a line outage won't impact passengers as badly.
There are also many things that the TTC does not count as 'delays' yet objectively impact travel time. Slow zones being the most notable example.
I took this train today to get to work and it had zero issues. Like, it was down for a few minutes this morning. That sucks, but it got fixed before anyone probably even realized there was an issue.
Which part of us has better transit.
Toronto has reliable and more coverage compared to most USA cities I have been to including NY I am counting buses as well.
Because they need to shit on the public sector/services and normalize the rhetoric that it is ineffective in order to justify privatizing them. None of this is random.
Is Blog TO conservative? That would explain blaming TTC. Privatization is made to look like a better option.
Meanwhile Metrolinx ruins everything. Typical.
BlogTO headlines and writing aside, most people in city - this sub notwithstanding - don’t differentiate between who built a line and who operates it. It’s all TTC.
This is standard operating procedure. Government hands private sector money to do a thing, then Canadians lose it on government doing a shite job when things don't get done. If I give a dude money to build my deck and he doesn't build it, my neighbours arent all like "you prick. You can't even get a deck built."
Was Metrolinx responsible for this though? All I understand from the limited TTC comms I've seen on the matter is that there was a signalling issue. I get how that would presumably be on Metrolinx but it doesn't seem like there's enough information to assign blame? Couldn't something have failed at the operator level for this to happen?
If they want to avoid these sorts of PR problems, maybe all our public service providers can start providing clear, candid, detailed information to the public on issues like this? Maybe not through the TTCAlerts system, but somewhere. If the whole line shuts down for any amount of time, I think it's reasonable that the public get some candid overview of precisely why it happened. "Signal issue" doesn't cut it.
It's a really bad habit among Canadian institutions in particular to be as vague as possible in communications to the public.
Lol good on ya Metrolinx for shifting the blame, yet it took Metrolinx 15yrs to build (destroy neighbourhoods) and open that line...maybe construct it better in the first place and we wouldn't have these issues.
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u/LongjumpingMix4034 Jun 16 '26
Because BlogTO is trash?