The TTC Should Be An Essential Service!

Every three years in the city of Toronto the hostile Toronto Transit Commission employees hold the Greater Toronto Area hostage with threats of a strike. Why doesn’t the TTC have any competition? We need options! In Singapore the transit service has competition that’s important. I so tired of the TTC employees they are holding the public hostage its not fair!

Once again the TTC employees are complaining about salary even though they are being offered a 2% raise. I also must point out the TTC employees get paid over $50,000 a year including health & dental benefits and they also receive vacation pay. There are so many people in the greater Toronto area that don’t make this kind of money. Sorry, I have zero sympathy for TTC employees. I do have sympathy for the public because taxpayers money helps to pay for the TTC. The provincial and federal governments constantly are providing millions of dollars in funding for the TTC yet the washrooms stink, the attitudes of the TTC employees are deleterious, the service isn’t that great either.

Has anyone visited the men’s washrooms at Finch, Bloor, Kipling subway stations lately ? The mens washrooms are so gross you can pass out with the disgusting rancid odor. When is the TTC going to use some money and scrub the men’s washrooms down and clean them? I try very hard not to use the TTC men’s washrooms because I don’t want to vomit its just so sickening how dirty the washrooms are.

If a deal is not made by Monday morning next week there will be a strike. The quandary is the TTC is the lifeline of the greater Toronto area. Over 1.5 riders per day use the TTC. Many people don’t own a car we use the TTC because it is convenient and safe. Why should the public suffer because some TTC employees are avaricious?

Meanwhile, the mayor of Toronto David Miller is at a conference in China isn’t that convenient? Miller claims he still believes a deal can be made. Perhaps it is time for the Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty to actually demonstrate some leadership roles and make the TTC an essential service? Enough is enough I am sick of the TTC providing crappy service and expecting the public to suffer. We don’t deserve this! The TTC is too important for the greater Toronto area strikes should never be allowed. The solution is either allow competition or make the TTC an essential service. The leadership in Toronto is seriously lacking this is just pathetic.

The TTC is the heart of Toronto people use the to go to work, doctor appointments, business meetings, shopping, students need to the TTC to travel to college, university, or high school. Businesses will lose millions of dollars if there is a strike. The ramifications of a TTC strike are chaotic and catastrophic.
I will not hold my breath but something needs to change ASAP in the greater Toronto area.

The TTC has too much power and the power needs to return to the public we deserve better options. Why should the public be subjected to smelly dirty washrooms, litter on the subways and buses, bad attitudes from querulous drivers, and slow inefficient service? Ooops forgot to mention the people of Toronto pay $2.75 cash fare and you just know we are going to soon pay $3.00 to take the TTC very soon! I think its time for me to seriously consider getting my drivers license and get a car.