II fait beau dans l'métro

we had a snow storm in Toronto yesterday.
トロントでは昨日どか雪が降りました。

Montréal is my favourite city in Canada. If I could speak French, I would have lived there.
モントリオール（仏語読みでモレアル）は僕がカナダで一番好きな街です。
仏語喋れたら住んでます。

TTC - Metropass $109 / mo

Is this why you guys raised the subway fare?

Toronto's subway stopped improving itself 20 years ago.

The old structures and facilities of the subway are aging, in contrary to the recent installation of the useless information screens at each station.



On such an old style subway, paper medium is still a key medium to have announcements to the customers and passengers. Tri-folded paper brochures are hanging at a few places on a subway car.

On the other day, I noticed this printed announcement.
I don't usually tear a brochure off from a hanger on the train, but I did it to read the brochure.


"Well, What century is it now?"
"It is the 21st century" – it is a rather sad fact.

It's been 7 years since the new century started,
and it is rather very shocking to see the brochure of
"ESCALATOR SAFETY GUIDE."


At last,
Toronto is one of the most multicultural and multiracial cities in the world.
There are people, such as people who decide to live here, children come with their parents, senior people who come here to live with their son and daughters, refugees who have to move to other countries because of wars and with political or whatever thoughts, beliefs, and religions, etc, etc.

How many people are there still in a land where there is no escalator?
How many people, who don't know what an escalator is, are there still?

I have a question, TTC:
Was there any necessity to make it printed on the paper in English language??

For the Biggest City in Canada, Time to Get Smarter

When I got off at a subway station yesterday, a TTC worker was handing out a survey to its riders. I am, of course, one of the riders. I grabbed the survey (here is the online version of the TTC Survey). There are too many silly questions to a rider like me, a rider who doesn't have a license or a car and doesn't drive. No matter how much more they raise their fare, I will probably keep using the public transportation.

Yes, our city has a lot of problems in its budget. Though, I can't understand one thing – there seems to be NO self-improvement plans from TTC, other than cutting surface route services and raising the fare. I think TTC can cut more of its inefficiencies.

Rise or fall, it's time for our city and TTC to get smarter to solve this problem unless we get any supports from mean politicians' higher governments.

Invest more of our tax money in this province's and this country's biggest city!!

Bicycle

Siemens' Pin-point Marketing for TTC

I browsed a website that was printed on an advertising on the today's Metro:
http://www.combinoplus.ca/

The well-made movie with a new streetcar that Siemens is trying to sell to TTC was strongly attractive.

Now, it's a buyer's turn.