Strike = good public relations how?
I don’t usually do two posts a day, but can I just say: Thanks, TTC workers! I really wanted an extra day off work. I don’t like money. I mean, sure, I could have walked. It would have taken two hours, on Bloor St, in 30-degree weather, but good thing I had that alternate transportation. Oh wait. I didn’t! That monthly pass I bought? Totally apparently not a guarantee of transit. Sigh.
It just seems like such a dumb move for the workers to pull. I’m reasonably sympathetic to the whole night-shift scheduling issue, but hey, shutting down transit with NO WARNING on a smog day which hit a HEAT RECORD? Not really the way to make the public more pro-union.
It’s Memorial Day in the US, which is where we do most of the business, so I just called in to make sure someone was there and begged off. Alex (stuck at my house) and I got iced coffees and hung out in Dufferin Grove before it got too hot.
Rach on 29 May 2006 at 11:22 pm #
Well, it’s cool and kinda rainy here - one good thing I can say about Vancouver is that it’s pretty much never muggy like it can get in Ontario. It’s like, bright and sunny with a crisp breeze, or, non-stop miserable rain. Kind of half-n-half through the summer months, anyway.
I’m told that if transit shuts down here (i.e. for a dusting of snow) businesses close altogether (with pay, but maybe just for salaried types?) Of course, the biggest beef our transit operators have is that teenagers beat the crap out of them. And now Translink officers carry guns. It’s all very fun out here, you’ll see.
brenda on 29 May 2006 at 11:26 pm #
I’m kind of looking forward to not-muggy. It’s so gross in my apartment still.
Rach on 30 May 2006 at 12:02 am #
Third-floor apartments will do that to you.
Guess what! My place this summer has air conditioning!
… So, you just have to, y’know, wait for July.
sara k. on 31 May 2006 at 3:15 am #
yeah i ended up having to drive to york. aparently parking for 4 hours is worth $14. it took me an hour and 45 minutes to drive home. i spent 35 minutes driving THREE KILOMETRES on the allen. it was shitty.
brenda on 31 May 2006 at 8:19 pm #
My friend from work’s car broke down, in an INTERSECTION, in a sketch neighbourhood, and he had to wait HOURS in the heat for a tow truck. Sounds miserable.
But yeah, you know how I missed the whole day of work? FOUR DOLLAR refund. Awesome. Thanks, TTC!
Rach on 31 May 2006 at 8:31 pm #
Um, frack, it just occurred to me that job hunting is going to be H-E-double-hockey-sticks (if not wholly impossible) if transit’s on the fritz - is this going to be an ongoing thing?
sara k. on 31 May 2006 at 9:36 pm #
it’s fixed now