AKS
Senior Member
To be a bit more fair to the TTC, the reliability varies heavily depending on the route. Subways are far more reliable than streetcars or buses, so if both ends of your commute are near subway stations I think it is more than feasible to rely on transit. However, this applies to only a small portion of the city; and the more transfers between lines that are required on your trip, the more the travel time varies.
Subways are somewhat more reliable than street cars or buses I think. When I used to take the subway, at least once a week there would be issues on the train. Either mechanical, electrical or other problems. Not necessarily on the train I'm on but on trains ahead of me which stalls every train after. At times the wait could vary between a few minutes, few minutes every station/in between stations, or even long durations at one station until they tell people to get off the train to take a shuttle bus which is nowhere in sight or I have no idea which one it is so I follow the crowd. There's so much crowd I sometimes need to wait for several buses before I get on and get crammed in.