TFC
Active Member
If he did, he'd attach some garbage about how the central part of the city thinks they're better than everyone else... blah blah blah
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If he did, he'd attach some garbage about how the central part of the city thinks they're better than everyone else... blah blah blah
TheTigerMaster
Superstar
Midtown Urbanist
Superstar
But we are better than everyone else...
[It's a joke.]
Implying that's not the truth.
Uncle Teddy
Senior Member
TBM Tracker shows Glenhaven Street as the current location of the first TBM. Caledonia is getting closer and closer.
https://maps.google.com/maps/ms?msa...-79.481398&spn=0.004593,0.008393&source=embed
https://maps.google.com/maps/ms?msa...-79.481398&spn=0.004593,0.008393&source=embed
Tuscani01
Senior Member
It's definitely further than Glenhaven, as the tracker hasn't been updated for over a week now.
B
barit
Guest
There is construction starting on the old bus bays site. Some kind of heavy duty fencing is going up along Eglinton as we speak. Is this where the launch shaft is going in?
innsertnamehere
Superstar
It'll be the extraction shaft for both the west and east tbm drives. (I think) Nothing is going to be launched.
Monarch Butterfly
Superstar
The student who normally updates the tracker is studying for exams these couple of weeks. No time to update the tracker. Can't they get an intern to do that, maybe even pay them something better than minimum wage to do that?
Johnny Au
Superstar
The same could have said during the holidays and early January, as there was a two-week lull. They should have hired me to update the tracker, as I am free most of the time (and have good connections with the people in charge of the Crosstown LRT).
Monarch Butterfly
Superstar
So, you're the one?
[video=youtube_share;DItgw1mU9Us]http://youtu.be/DItgw1mU9Us[/video]
Johnny Au
Superstar
I wish. If I were hired, I would be tracking the movement of the TBMs each day.
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TheTigerMaster
Superstar
What does the TBM tracker "job" involve anyways. I hope it's more than calling the guys in the TBM to see where they're at. If that's it then I'd gladly do it for free. I think I have 45 seconds to spare every day.
TFC
Active Member
It would be awesome, purely from a transit geek perspective, if the TBM tracker would be updated daily. Anyone have connections at Metrolinx?
Hipster Duck
Senior Member
Dan Arielly, a behavioural economist, has written about this in his book "Predictably Irrational". Basically, when you take an activity that people do willingly and passionately for free and pay people to do it, the passion to do that job goes out the window. You begin to think of it as a task, rather than as something fun, and you do it grudgingly.
Also, it's probably likely that the TTC hired the student because he/she aced the interview, and not his/her passion for public transit. I always thought that HR interview questions for students ("tell me a time you encountered a difficulty in your job and what you did to address it?"; "what are your strengths and weaknesses?") seem to screen out the most passionate, interested and creative students.
Johnny Au
Superstar
There goes that as a dream job. The TTC lacks creativity or passion. It seems very cold. They need to be open to hiring more creative minds. The TTC is becoming more creative, but is still bland.