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Steve X said:
No loitering also applies to the homeless hogging up a bench for themselves while the train is jammed pack full in rush hour. The cost to enforce this along with bikes, pets and large objects being brought on the subway during rush hour is very expensive. So they rather leave it at status quo.
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How can Canada be such a rich country and still nickel and dime these kind of issues? The priorities in this country boggle my mind. I'm not naive, I know who people voted for.
 
northyorker1 said:
How can Canada be such a rich country and still nickel and dime these kind of issues? The priorities in this country boggle my mind. I'm not naive, I know who people voted for.
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Part of this is lack of real choice. See the anticipated provincial election where the first issue Bonnie Crombie chose to stake out was that she could cut taxes for middle/upper-middle income earners.

Team Red and Team Blue are often remarkably similar with slightly different spin.

But even the NDP struggle when in power to make a large difference. In BC the NDP deserve credit for making contraception free and mandating 5 paid sick days, but they still have the minimum wage well below subsistence, when the neighbouring State of Washington has a higher minimum adjusted for the exchange rate ($16.28USD which is $22.95CAD per hour). You'd think they could get to $20.00 an hour, but no, they're down at $17.40.

Likewise their social assistance rates are a bit more generous than Ontario's, though still quite low, but they also more aggressively penalize work (clawbacks).

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Changing this means changes to political party donation rules, electoral reform and other measures.

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There is a also a need for parties in power do a better job achieving results. If taxes rise, I think people will be fine w/that, but they want to see the result, if not in real time, then as close as practical.
 
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Northern Light said:
Part of this is lack of real choice. See the anticipated provincial election where the first issue Bonnie Crombie chose to stake out was that she could cut taxes for middle/upper-middle income earners.

Team Red and Team Blue are often remarkably similar with slightly different spin.

But even the NDP struggle when in power to make a large difference. In BC the NDP deserve credit for making contraception free and mandating 5 paid sick days, but they still have the minimum wage well below subsistence, when when the neighbouring State of Washington has a higher minimum adjusted for the exchange rate ($16.28USD which is $22.95CAD per hour). You'd think they could get to $20,00 an hour, but no, there down at $17.40.

Likewise their social assistance rates are a bit more generous than Ontario's, though still quite low, but they also more aggressively penalize work (clawbacks).

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Changing this means changes to political party donation rules, electoral reform and other measures.

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There is a also a need for parties in power do a better job achieving results. If taxes rise, I think people will be fine w/that, but they want to see the result, if not in real time, then as close as practical.
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The NDP are great with fringe issues. They're also the champions of antisemitism and neglect of the middle class.
 
northyorker1 said:
The NDP are great with fringe issues. They're also the champions of antisemitism and neglect of the middle class.
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First, let me say that I think its important not to generalize. The presence of a given constituency within a party doesn't necessarily reflect the bulk of its members or its leadership. That's true on the right and left, and indeed the centre as well.

That said, we have expressly political threads here at UT for municipal, provincial and federal politics, and this tangent would fit better there than in the TTC thread.
 
I'll just park this here:

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From: https://www.merx.com/ttc/solicitati...0283138?purchasingGroupId=1177575101&origin=1
 
Northern Light said:
Team Red and Team Blue are often remarkably similar with slightly different spin.
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Ford is probably the reddest Tory we've seen for a long time. And Crombie seems a Blue liberal. Really we've only seen the Liberals get power when the Conservatives jumped further right. Red Tories have been very stable when in power going back to at least the 1940s.
 
turbanplanner said:
Would could have expected rails and bolts in a streetcar loop?
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This is utterly BS. There is a small handful of people working the line working their way along slowly through different sections taking their time doing the work bit by bit. If they took this project seriously there would be a work being done along the whole line simultaneously.

I was riding the route and I asked the bus driver where the work was being done. And he said, they do it but by bit, section by section. It's a joke.

And how is the rebuilding of the Sheppard station driveway taking 6 months? Don't even get me started on that.
 
Diamond lawyers are gutter trash who will sue water for being wet.

Northern Light said:
but they still have the minimum wage well below subsistence, when the neighbouring State of Washington has a higher minimum adjusted for the exchange rate ($16.28USD which is $22.95CAD per hour). You'd think they could get to $20.00 an hour, but no, they're down at $17.40.
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Respectfully, NL, I have corrected this before and will once again. One does not adjust for the exchange rate going across the border. This is because one earns and pays in USD south of the border; earns and pays in CAD north of the border.

Your comparison only works if someone is working a job in the US, earning USD and coming here to spend in CAD. This exaggerates their purchasing power and is not a common scenario.

Therefore, we compare the ratio of a median/average/whatever wage to a median/average basket of goods. It's the ratio that matters, NOT the raw numbers of 16 USD being worth 22 CAD. That's a meaningless comparison.
 
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I had a very odd experience on the 501 today. The streetcar was going north on Church to Queen when it stopped for several minutes, and then appeared to lose power, I'm not sure of that but about half the interior lights suddenly turned off.
The operator then walked into the middle of the car and opened a panel above the seats and fiddled with some controls in there.
Then she opened the doors and announced it would be four or five minutes until we would get underway again, so I decided to walk as my destination was only three more stops.
As soon I got out I saw the operator outside the streetcar there and noticed the pantograph had been lowered and she had attached the trolley pole to the wires.
I actually beat the streetcar to my stop on Queen East by only about three seconds, but I noted at that point the pantograph was back up and the trolley pole down again.
What could have been going on there?
 
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Jonny5 said:
I had a very odd experience on the 501 today. The streetcar was going north on Church to Queen when it stopped for several minutes, and then appeared to lose power, I'm not sure of that but about half the interior lights suddenly turned off.
The operator then walked into the middle of the car and opened a panel above the seats and fiddled with some controls in there.
Then she opened the doors and announced it would be four or five minutes until we would get underway again, so I decided to walk as my destination was only three more stops.
As soon I got out I saw the operator outside the streetcar there and noticed the pantograph had been lowered and she had attached the trolley poll to the wires.
I actually beat the streetcar to my stop on Queen East by only about three seconds, but I noted at that point the pantograph was back up and the trolley poll down again.
What could have been going on there?
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Pan drop.

The pantographs installed on the legacy network Flexities are "smart", and are capable of lowering themselves if they detect any situation or motion that could cause damage to either the overhead or themselves.

They are arguably too sensitive however. Early on, a pan drop was considered a major fault and required the car to be removed from service immediately. I guess that they've finally realised that there is no damage to the pantographs when this happens, and so the car (in most cases) can switch to the pole and have its pantograph inspected later.

Dan
 
Crosspost from CPTDB:
Random question, with the advent of Ventura doors in service, was the operator opening the rear door, or were passengers made to push the button, finally?

I sincerely hope this marks a change in the TTC's attitude towards passengers having to push the button to open the doors on the Flexities. [...]
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This video answered my question:

Yes, you will have to push the button.
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It was rather amusing seeing some people pushing the doors.

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On a side note, good to see Guelph doing more with their LCD-displays than Toronto:

Thank you @Blob (on CPTDB)!!
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