you know what protecting an investment means? It means that what you have now is an amazing piece of shit subway system that you keep pissing money away at, with overpaid staff and people who blame everything on funding. Instead of fixing the shit, the TTC thinks that by increasing the fare, they will fix their shitty service, delays, 5.45pm out of fucking service weekday trains, Monday-mornings-constipation and signal cancer.
Well all they've been doing is shitting all over themselves for the last 10 years. They've kept increasing the fares, yet nothing improved with their service. I would love to see some progress made over the years of increased hike in fare that we've been paying.
I don't mind paying the hike in fare but I wanna see some progress as well. In 2015, killing subways on weekends for track repairs on a nice summer day is the indication that transit will be bleak for the next years to come.. Isnt there a point where they should stop killing money in this clusterfuck its become and find some help from some experts?
I have a question to all those defending the TTC with lack of funding. How exactly do you think the TTC will spend their budgeted money if they got the full amount? No they wont invest into the subway, they will hire more board members to bloat their board up to the point it will ascend into space. Companies that do the contract work will inflate their fees for their services. They will start internal political agendas (contracts) with some companies that will charge millions because they will claim to know how to run the subway better because they've dealt with a similar case study for the candy trains from fucking la-la land. They will spend a lot of money to make a strong political appearance in the news and everywhere. They will keep doing the same shit they've been doing for the past years, the expense ratio will be the same, the end result will be the same.
We've sent a robot on fucking mars... Technology is there, this is an engineering problem. The fact that i've rarely seen anything from the TTC where they will focus on solving the problem makes me feel that the problem with the TTC is the management itself who I predict is old fashioned, worried about their job security, and that the subway system is being run by people who are not engineers.
Budget cuts are estimated to 2%? Two fucking percent.... How the hell does the TTC stay at the same level with only a 2% cut? What the hell is done with the other 98%? I'm finding it hard to understand how a subway system fails after having a cut of 2% and that if they had that 2% that was cut, everything would be just wonderful and running well. How? http://ttc.ca/About_the_TTC/Commission_reports_and_information/Commission_meetings/2015/May_27/Reports/2016_TTC_Budgets_Process.pdf This PDF only shows bloated propaganda.. buying new buses means more hiring.. More station supervisors? How does that make those signal problems disappear? none of what they proposed involve some R&D or asking the germans for help. All it looks like "we've got a bad service, lets buy more buses and trains and hire more people"
I didn't mean to be negative, I'm just fed up of using this peasant wagon in the name of going green with the environment. Im convinced this is all a matter of internal political drama which could even be starred on Netflix as a premium show...
God dammit!