It's very much a "Train 48" transplanted tot he London Tube, telling the stories of both staff and passengers. The ticket resellers are called "ticket touts". ...
... Nothing at all like Train 48! "The Tube" is a documentary. Train 48 was a soap-opera! I really don't get the "ticket tout" thing. I don't understand how...
Like people discarding their used but still-valid tickets as they leave stations, and the ticket touts picking them up, or buying them at a discount, then...
here in NYC we have a fare evasion problem with the MetroCard. Apparently if you bend the card a certain way after it is expired, you can get some free ...
... I guess this is a problem with a POP system that doesn't collect tickets at the end of the journey. Something to keep in mind when designing systems. Nick...
Vancouver's sky train has locked boxes at each station where people are asked to deposit their used tickets, to prevent that kind of fraud. Mark Walton ...
... The gates (turnstiles) do collect tickets at the end of the trip if it's no longer valid (such as a single or return). The problem is partially part of...
I was on the 68 Warden Bus and wanted to get off at the north end of Steeles (about 50-100m north of the intersection). Near Steeles, the driver said that an...
... You were still south of the bus-loop though, where the non-York Region Buses turn around? Perhaps you should have refused, and let him throw you off...
Ugh, it sounds like was exactly what you siad at the bottom of your post. Really seems to me that the TTC needs to do somthing about some of these operators...
With her royal highness Hazel's complaints about VIVA using foreign artic buses, it would be nice if MT took the lead and started reusing those "local" artics...
Yeah, Toronto may get things "right" but in many ways it is a long, torturous hate-filled process.... It seems we are at the last, most important stages of...
There should be a stop on all TTC routes that run out of the main fare zone that have a sign that says "Extra Fare Zone", or something to that effect. IIRC, on...
Dear all I am teaching the Ontario Curriculum course "Canadian and World Issues" in Malaysia. The next unit that I am teaching involves "human issues." For...
I finally got on TTC Orion VII bus 7697 for route #11 that was some 24 minutes late arriving at Davisville station on Friday. Riders around me were making...
... artic ... still a ... Before she bitch about York and VIVA, She and her crew should ride both VIVA Blue and purple routes from end to end round trip. She ...
I forgot to mention, there is a hard to describe sound given off for some stops, but not all of them. It is a 2 tone sound most likely related to the vision...
I recommending that people should visit the St Clair and Yonge intersection to see the butchering of the sidewalk on the westside of Yonge, but mostly the...
Dear Fans: There are technological glitches in this new system. All new systems need a breaking time period to make corrections & adjustments.A lot is riding...
[note: probably refers to a system where discount fares effective only off-peak, but applies to TTC day pass, which is valid from 9:30am weekdays -ed.] from...
... Get your Palm-Friendly TTC system maps, route maps, subway platform maps and schedules here: http://doconnor.reamined.on.ca/ttcpalm/ Violate the TTC's...
... token ... Then again, NYC subway system is at least an order of magnetude larger and more complex than toronto's. Heck NY has express trains during the...
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