[interchange42]

Thread for comments on the front page TTC Article from April 1, 2013.

Definitely worth a read…

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[nfitz]

Thread for comments on the front page TTC Article from April 1, 2013.

Definitely worth a read…

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I'm not seeing any humour in it though ... it looks like a sensible fantasy plan, rather than a joke.

 

[wolfewood]

This had better not be the second April Fool's joke I've fallen for today. BlogTO's bike network one was bad enough...

 

[milanista]

Andrew King and Avril Poisson.

It's a joke lol.

 

[Southcore]

It needed more humour like an outlandish claim that ' the TTC expects to break ground on the first station in 2014' or something similar. The BlogTO story about $500M worth of bike lanes by 2015 was solid trolling though.

 

[dlam]

aww no, dont play with my heart with this UT! i so want the DRL!

 

[JayBeeGooner]

LOL.

Nice one.

I was really struggling with one, to be honest. Good job guys! "Andrew King" and "Downtown Relief Life" confirmed it was a joke.

This one was actually very believable, whereas the BlogTO one was just over the top.

It is pretty disheartening, because the Wellington alignment makes a ton of sense.

 

[interchange42]

It's more of a provocation than a joke; something to get people talking. The ideas put forth in it are serious, although not yet engineer-tested!

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[AlvinofDiaspar]

Nice! The basemap is from the PATH Master Plan no?

On the topic of April Fool's - this, from 299 Bloor Control:

https://twitter.com/larrylarry/status/318722263551729664/photo/1

AoD

 

[RC8]

Ouch. In a parallel universe where our politicians are not incompetent and conservative.

 

[someMidTowner]

Hah. Only 42 could pull off a map that convincing.

 

[interchange42]

Nice! The basemap is from the PATH Master Plan no?

AoD

Yes! Best I could find, and it made sense to relate it to the PATH system, anyway.

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[Markster]

It needed more humour like an outlandish claim that ' the TTC expects to break ground on the first station in 2014' or something similar. The BlogTO story about $500M worth of bike lanes by 2015 was solid trolling though.

Yeah, thanks to the lack of any specific outlandish claims, I was genuinely fooled by the article.

I thought it odd that a "preferred alignment" would happen so out of the blue though. Usually we have much more warning for these things!

 

[arvelomcquaig]

It's testament to how low our standards are for transit development that a mere discussion about which street the DRL might best be placed under is too outlandish to be taken seriously. I completely thought this was real, except I thought the TTC is unusually “on the ball,” and it's about time.

 

[innsertnamehere]

yes, I believed every minute of this. Mind you I expected an article on the entire route, not just through the down-town core.. and the possible future GO station is at bathurst, not spadina. Anyways, I really do think the final design will have it run on King.