This doesn't just happen once a week, this happens daily on the TTC. It's ridiculous, not to mention the buses when the drivers make sure to get stuck on every red light, streetcars too.
nxt to the guv it is The wrst taxpayr paid so-called service. totla n Complete diss to the customers n owners but tht mngmnt team n the counsellor chairperson now they really deserve the $ duzn top guy get a mill a yr still n bonuses
I've been coming to TO since 1970. I'm 65 yrs old. The more I tune into TO and I visit often. The city doesn't care at all about the folks who live there. A corporation will own the TTC soon. I think that is part of the plan. I don't drive so I depend on public transit. I'm from the Niagara Region and it's transit has always been terrible.
A corporation that runs (not owns) the ttc wouldnt be a bad thing. Esp one that understands transit. The problem is ttc is like nyc mta, its too massive n prone to failure. Have someone like hong kongs mtr run torontos subway. Ttc focuses solely on bus and streetcars.
@@morgana9981 thank u for understanding me and i too understand you. im not for privatization but u cant continue on like this. Im for building more transit but equally important is the ability to run/maintain it as u pointed out. Let me ask u a q..would u let a person without a drivers license operate a vehicle? Most ppl would justifiably say no. So why would u let an operator who cant operate subways operate subways? Contract it out to an agency that does. Hong kongs mtr currently runs shenzhen stockholm sydney and a portion of londons subway. The govt continues to set the prices n owns the subway system. In 10 20 yrs time, when toronto gains the knowhow to run it, we can take it back from mtr and operate it ourselves. But to continue it is current form, its not viable.
@@morgana9981 what government are you talking about? The provincial government is actually making impressive improvements with metrolinx. This is especially astounding considering the last conservatives (Mike Harris) that tried to download GO Transit to the city of Toronto, that then proceeded to slash and burn the service to the ground. It took a decade to restore the damage done by that. The Ford government seems to be doing thinks acceptable with regards to provincial transit -- GO Transit is now the largest and most ambitious regional train system in north america. I am skeptical the promises made to electrify and increase service to the 7-min in peak period will actually happen in my lifetime, but I like the progress I'm seeing. The ontario funding for cross-trips is also shocking, considering it came from a conservative government -- the liberals prior were promising $3 flat transit across systems in Toronto. Let's see what comes out of the Ontario Line Subway funded by the provincial government. All the transit projects are taking twice (or longer) to complete. Look at the Eglinton crosstown project. The problem with projects that are estimated to take 10 years but take 20 or 30 years to complete, that is a lot of time and a lot of government switching hands to have someone come in and derail the progress by pulling the plug on the entire thing.
Thx for this video. Nothing has changed in all the past decades. I had to battle these situations for many years. Thx again for this vid, take care and do stay safe.
I'm regularly embarrassed by the TTC when my family and friends from abroad comes to visit. I wanna have Toronto pride so much you goons are making it so hard!
Having being dispatched to do a subway shuttle was not fun at all. I always got stuck in traffic doing it, plus most of the times I’m picking up hundreds of frustrated people that squish onto my bus like sardines.
The TTC have poor communication skills. That is something that needs to addressed on their service. I don't know how many times I have heard muffled messages while on a train and it's really frustrating.
Toronto want to reduce car traffic and encourage people to use other options but they also don't want to offer proper public transit. Loved the part where you helped out the people and that most of them thanked it.
Don't believe the hype. They don't want to reduce car traffic. They want to SAY they want to reduce car traffic. They don't actually want to reduce car traffic. This city has hit the shit pile.
Agree. I drive and rarely take the subway unless I go downtown. No failure, 99.9% there is always something wrong with it regardless of seasons. Winter is the worst. Delay from 10 to 15 minutes or longer. You call this an international metropolitan city? SHAMEFUL Can you imagine thousands of employees are late due to this? Who should pay for the loss of money because every minute is $$$$ in the business world. I am very impressed with the riders they take it calmly as this is factual every single day as expected The system us worst than the underdeveloped countrues. They continue to argue about infrastructure.fir the last 50 years
@@alankingchiu That's physically impossible. You'd have to widen the tunnels which means facing Anglosphere Transit cost disease. And you end up taking 5 years and 10 billion for 1km of track.
This literally happens to me all the time. I've been late to work so much because of delays and whatnot. I finally decided to just leave an hour before my shift starts even though it SHOULD only take 15-20 minutes. Terrible.
Line 2 is the worst, happens every single day, I also got stuck on Aug 6th had to take uber on surge price to warden station to pick my car up from there, wasted 45 dollars for uber plus 3.30 for TTC from union to bloor
Those LCD screen can be used to display the message instead of CP24. No one can hear what they say through the intercom. Last time I took the subway was 15 years ago and there is still no improvement on the service.
I travelled TTC daily for 25 years to various contract sites across Toronto, but mostly in the downtown core area. For the last 10 years I have been working from home and don't get downtown very often, like maybe once a year. I am shocked at how disgustingly congested it is now at Young and Bloor, I used to love that intersection, now it is impeded by construction barriers, bike lanes and what seems like more people than ever. Don't even get me started on the TTC, I used to love it, but about a year before I started working from home, it was getting really bad. Always standing room only unless you got on at a station. Your scheduled bus would just randomly pass by your stop too crowded to take another passenger and you knew you were waiting for the next bus in 15 to 20 minutes.
Traveling up from Long Island, New York later this month to visit Toronto and will ride the TTC. I can’t believe the horror stories I’m reading as bad as it seems to be it can’t be as bad as the New York City Subway. It seems like human nature for people to complain about their own city transit system.
It's shocking how quickly Toronto went from it's original name "Toronto the good" to the absolute embarrassment this city is now. Quite easily one of the worst cities in the entire world... Sad.
As a Torontonian living here for over 30 years, you quickly learn that you just accept it, get used to it, and quickly adapt. So, no. Personally, I don't get frustrated by this. I've observed that it's mostly the newcomers that complain way more than they should. And the garbled TTC announcements? That's been happening way before I was born.
If I'm not recording a video of course I just deal with it, but it goes without saying their communication is absurdly bad and something that could easily be addressed with literally zero dollars invested.
Ah yes, adapt to poor service rather than to seek change and improvement. Not entirely TTC’s fault due to its low funding, but people should expect to see the quality of transportation improve as the years go by - not stay stagnant or get worse.
The TTC is better now as the government is finally pumping money into it to improve service and safety but still needs a lot of work. As little as 1 year ago the TTC was absolutely criminal on how overall bad and unsafe it was.
The service at TTC is the worst that it's ever been. Daily problems and technical issues. Professionalism has gone completely out the window, workers that are full of attitude, supervisors walking around on their phones the whole time "working". They take forever to do anything at TTC and it feels like most employees don't care to be there.
Twice this has happened to me recently when I am on the subway going to catch a Via train. Subway stopped at Dundas with no communication . I jumped off and ran down Yonge St. to Union with my luggage. I made it but was annoyed that I had paid my subway fare for so little benefit having got on at Wellesley. . The second time it happened to me I stayed on the subway train but I could feel my stress rising. Tomorrow, I am going to Union again but will need to catch the Bay St. bus as I found out that the first subway service only starts at 8:15 am from Wellesley on Sundays . As my Go bus leaves at 9am, I am not taking a chance with the subway- I would rather walk!
Yes I remember when I was living in Toronto the way the t.t.c I see not much has changed except for the construction I left 3 yrs ago lol I was born and raised in Toronto myself I don't miss the rush hour of the t.t.c
The TTC is complete trash. The service is extreme unreliable and the ridership is some combination of drunk, homeless, violent, peeing, or talking on cellphones on speaker. Never depend on the TTC for anything.
The TTC has also become a biohazard. I was on the subway one evening and discovered that the seat I was sitting in had been soiled by one of the many homeless that call the subway home. I've rode the subways in other cities and never have I seen anything as decrepit as the TTC. You don't see this in Montreal.
I recently discovered your channel and thank you for uploading this! I got a car recently and for the last year living in TO I would take line 2 high park to Kipling, which is only like 5 stops. At least twice a week I would get caught in one of these shutdowns, many times the reason would be a security threat or rail work. Getting my car has been a life changer, it's silly how this city wants to prioritize public transit and have less cars on the road, they don't make it easy for us. Keep up the great content!
Living in Toronto my entire life and using the TTC to travel to university and now work, my entire life, although the TTC has become better, I loath having to use it. After decades, the TTC still lacks proper communication channels. The PAed are completed garbled at the best of times, if anyone ever even tries to communicate issues like this. The last few times I'm travelling with ample time for my connections, but I'd get stuck on a train or at a station without announcements why the service isn't moving, long enough to miss my connections, making a trip that should have taken an hour, taking 3 hours. Thank God for the huge leaps being made above the surface with GO Transit. Whenever possible, I take GO Transit. Service has is continuously expanding and getting more frequent. I'm not sure we'll actually ever see the promised-land of 7-min peak service on all main routes, but taking service even on the hourly stouville line in lieu of taking the smelly-and-slow TTC. Even when a GO train stops to red signal, someone comes online to explain the reason for the stoppage, on a PA system that actually works.
Thank God I never have to go back there - Lived in TO in the mid 90s and glad I left - Couldn't imagine it today .. seems like nothing much has changed
A friend from my undergraduate studies said she expected to be surrounded by people with blonde hair and blue eyes when she came to Toronto from Seoul to attend OCAD in 2006. I found that amusing as a white boy from Brampton.
They must be on standby at how much it happens. The TTC has an extremely large amount of busses. In fact, the TTC runs so many busses that it is the only "positive" thing the TTC has. efficiency? No! Busses! Lots of them. They take pride in all of their busses.
this is sad it happens so often at lease you have a train systems here in the US we do not have a train system every where only in the big cities our law makers Love the oil co. so we have cars every where and traffic none stop it not good
Toronto is a big city. TTC is unacceptable and I think the public transit system in Ottawa (Canada's capital) has gone downhill as well. They should take note of Vancouver's SkyTrain---reliable, CLEAN, vinyl seating, grab poles instead of handles...and it's cheaper!
@@julieerin115LOL Vancouver? The Queen St Streetcar alone handles more people in a day than the entire Vancouver system combined. You’re comparing apples to oranges. The TTC is not just subways, it’s busses and streetcars….and under Metrolinx it’s GO Trains as well. Combine everything together, and it becomes North America’s third largest transport system after Mexico City and New York. If anything, Toronto should go back to its roots and take notes from the London Underground, where they got inspriation from. Everything was fine until the 90s hit and Harris axed Toronto’s subway extensions. Since then they’ve been playing catch up….😊
@@TMBpk Boy are you wrong. You should use google before you say ridiculous things. The combination of the 11.9 miles of the Canada Line’s (opened in 2009) and the 6.8-mile Evergreen Extension of the Millennium Line (which debuted in late 2016) have pushed the full 49.5-mile Skytrain daily ridership close to 500,000 - the 9th-most used heavy rail system in North America. According to Translink there are 1,200,000 weekday boardings per day in 2023. The 501 Queen streetcar has 53,000 boarding per day and the 504 King Car has 85,000. These are 2019 figures and the streetcars are not back up to them yet. In fact, when it comes to average weekday ridership, TransLink’s SkyTrain is now the fourth busiest metro/subway system in Canada and the United States - behind the New York City Subway, Montreal Metro, and Toronto Subway, but just ahead of the Washington Metro, Chicago L, and Boston subway.
@@julieerin115the skytrain system is also prone to breakdowns. Peoplemovers dont hv good reliability rates. The population has also now outgrown the skytrain.
5:05 you are complaining about fixed route Ttc try Wheeltrans! You can’t use transfer, no wifi on buses, often a 20min ride is 1.5hrs must book everything in advance at minimum 4hours, and sometimes they just drop you off at a subway station that has no elevator service when you use a wheelchair. Driver doesn’t give you more than 5min to get on and yet you must wait 60min to report late vehicles.
Does it not make more sense for Transit Control to make an announcement every 2/3 minutes and reaching everyone as apposed to operators making them individually and walking over control. TTC has a lot of lazy incompetent people in management positions who are afraid to make decisions.
Public Transit is a nightmare a times because the controversy is 10x worse and embarrassing and i rarely take transit bus due to the waiting so long is an issue.
Regarding shuttles THEY MUST also have a Wheeltrans bus going both ways for people with disabilities and ask the supervisor or call Wheeltrans priority line
You should try to get to the Scarborough Bluffs before the summer is over to show everyone the view there. People I speak to from the US don't realize we have beautiful areas here in Toronto too!
What the… Fabricland?! I hardly recognize Yonge/Bloor since the intersection was demolished and the fun alleyway with shawarmas & a gift shop that lead to the South-East corner TTC entrance was replaced. But Fabricland?! For the same reason as “Value Village Boutique?”😂 Wasn’t there a Fabricland by the intersection that closed a few years back?🤔
I would think that the reason the entrance to the Bloor Danforth subway was not blocked off was because you can still access the Yonge Street line from the Bloor Danforth platform via stairs or escalators.
I believe the best option at that point would be to go south to college and take the 506 to Main Street, and be prepared to transfer to 504 or 505 on Broadview if the subway opens
F Johnny😂😢😂😢❤ been there 😢done that😂😂😂One can never hear the delays UNTIL it is too late sometimes.You should have jumped back up on line 1 Gone home and had a beer😂We all would have done the same😊Unless it was important,that you get to your destination❤
Does the TTC not post alerts on X /Twiiter. In Waterloo Region, the GRT post alerts there when Ion trains are invoved in an accident or bus routes are cancelled.
And? It doesn't replace or make up for a lack of official and/or coherent communication in the stations/on the streets by the TTC when these things happen.
I have two bad occurrences with the subway. One I was stuck on the train in between two stations on line 1 (I forget which stations I was in between) for about 25 minutes. The other was northbound to finch was cut short and Sheppard-Yonge station was the terminal and there were no shuttle buses. I was staying on abitibi ave across from centrepointe mall
Yes, and so did ours, but... Ontarians keep on voting for Conservative governments! RIGHT there is the problem. At one time, the provincial government provided a very large chunk of TTC's funding. Tory premier Mike Harris pulled the plug on the province's share *- 25 years ago! -* and no government has had the guts to restore it. Tories are again in power, and even won some 12 seats in Toronto last election (more than usual). Tories like to cut public funding, not provide it. So the TTC system-wide is ill-funded and struggling, while consistently having to raise fares. It goes to show: the way one votes really DOES impact one's day-to-day life!
While funding is needed, what is actually needed is Metrolinx to be more proactive in the social media world and explain what the current issues are and how they’re mitigating them. People actually don’t know this, but Toronto right now is undergoing North America’s largest public transport infrastructure construction. They’re building a new subway line (Ontario Line), two new LRT lines (Eglinton and Finch West), the GO Train Electrification and recently they’ve held public seminars about extending the Sheppard Line east to Morningside and West to Sheppard West. Plus Line 7 and the new streetcar lines along Waterfront East.
lousy public transit, all the station look like under construction and service is bad and communication is primitive to passengers, definitely not first class city. lack of funds from federal government.
They need to have better communication about what's going on with the service there BUT.... I couldn't help but notice but this subway is so clean. The floors , the walls and the tracks are immaculate compared to the New York City Subway System. Inside the train cars are also clean in Toronto. It's also brightly lit in their subway and You don't see people just hanging around down there.
I remember when I was over from the UK a couple of years ago I travelled out to Islington on Line 2 once when I was waiting to hear from my bestie. When I got to Islington she said that she was on the Go train towards Union, so I made my way back that way, only to be told that Line 2 had a disruption at Dundas West. Thankfully it didn’t last long and I got to Union (changing at St George) just as she arrived.
I take Line 2 everyday from Sherbourne to Warden round. Some of the smells I've inhaled into my poor lungs will stick with me till the day I die. One of the worst transit agencies I've ever seen. Just fyi, the employees at the TTC get paid insanely high salaries and I fail to understand why. The way the whole system is run is spectacularly cringe.
If you need to get to line 2 from line 1 best bet is to go to Ellington station take the 56 Leaside to Donlands Station second option is to go to college street and stand we're the Tim Hortons is and wait for the street car to go to Main Street station
This doesn't just happen once a week, this happens daily on the TTC. It's ridiculous, not to mention the buses when the drivers make sure to get stuck on every red light, streetcars too.
nxt to the guv it is The wrst taxpayr paid so-called service.
totla n Complete diss to the customers n owners
but tht mngmnt team n the counsellor chairperson now they really deserve the $
duzn top guy get a mill a yr still n bonuses
THIS!! Once I had a driver that would stop at least 10 seconds or under before the lights even turned yellow. It was infuriating
I've been coming to TO since 1970. I'm 65 yrs old. The more I tune into TO and I visit often. The city doesn't care at all about the folks who live there. A corporation will own the TTC soon. I think that is part of the plan. I don't drive so I depend on public transit. I'm from the Niagara Region and it's transit has always been terrible.
That is really sad but you are probably correct Sir. Take Care.
A corporation that runs (not owns) the ttc wouldnt be a bad thing. Esp one that understands transit. The problem is ttc is like nyc mta, its too massive n prone to failure. Have someone like hong kongs mtr run torontos subway. Ttc focuses solely on bus and streetcars.
@@mattl4802 the gov wants to privatize it all. Not just transit. We pay to build and maintain it all. Not so sure that is good. But I get your point.
@@morgana9981 thank u for understanding me and i too understand you. im not for privatization but u cant continue on like this. Im for building more transit but equally important is the ability to run/maintain it as u pointed out. Let me ask u a q..would u let a person without a drivers license operate a vehicle? Most ppl would justifiably say no. So why would u let an operator who cant operate subways operate subways? Contract it out to an agency that does. Hong kongs mtr currently runs shenzhen stockholm sydney and a portion of londons subway. The govt continues to set the prices n owns the subway system. In 10 20 yrs time, when toronto gains the knowhow to run it, we can take it back from mtr and operate it ourselves. But to continue it is current form, its not viable.
@@morgana9981 what government are you talking about? The provincial government is actually making impressive improvements with metrolinx. This is especially astounding considering the last conservatives (Mike Harris) that tried to download GO Transit to the city of Toronto, that then proceeded to slash and burn the service to the ground. It took a decade to restore the damage done by that. The Ford government seems to be doing thinks acceptable with regards to provincial transit -- GO Transit is now the largest and most ambitious regional train system in north america. I am skeptical the promises made to electrify and increase service to the 7-min in peak period will actually happen in my lifetime, but I like the progress I'm seeing. The ontario funding for cross-trips is also shocking, considering it came from a conservative government -- the liberals prior were promising $3 flat transit across systems in Toronto. Let's see what comes out of the Ontario Line Subway funded by the provincial government. All the transit projects are taking twice (or longer) to complete. Look at the Eglinton crosstown project. The problem with projects that are estimated to take 10 years but take 20 or 30 years to complete, that is a lot of time and a lot of government switching hands to have someone come in and derail the progress by pulling the plug on the entire thing.
Feeling secondhand trauma watching this but great video. Your channel will be an amazing archive years from now
Thx for this video. Nothing has changed in all the past decades. I had to battle these situations for many years. Thx again for this vid, take care and do stay safe.
I'm regularly embarrassed by the TTC when my family and friends from abroad comes to visit. I wanna have Toronto pride so much you goons are making it so hard!
Don't vote left.....
Having being dispatched to do a subway shuttle was not fun at all. I always got stuck in traffic doing it, plus most of the times I’m picking up hundreds of frustrated people that squish onto my bus like sardines.
I've been riding the TTC since 2003 and I appreciate what you guys do.
@@MikeAntR87Thanks, I’m retired now.
@@busfanforever you overpaid for what you do
@@JK-yi9gk Hardly overpaid lmao
@@JK-yi9gk go do the job yourself then
There are no alternatives in Toronto. In London you have many lines to choose from to get around the problem area!
The TTC have poor communication skills. That is something that needs to addressed on their service. I don't know how many times I have heard muffled messages while on a train and it's really frustrating.
Toronto want to reduce car traffic and encourage people to use other options but they also don't want to offer proper public transit. Loved the part where you helped out the people and that most of them thanked it.
Don't believe the hype. They don't want to reduce car traffic. They want to SAY they want to reduce car traffic. They don't actually want to reduce car traffic. This city has hit the shit pile.
Agree.
I drive and rarely take the subway unless I go downtown.
No failure, 99.9% there is always something wrong with it regardless of seasons. Winter is the worst. Delay from 10 to 15 minutes or longer.
You call this an international metropolitan city? SHAMEFUL
Can you imagine thousands of employees are late due to this? Who should pay for the loss of money because every minute is $$$$ in the business world.
I am very impressed with the riders they take it calmly as this is factual every single day as expected
The system us worst than the underdeveloped countrues.
They continue to argue about infrastructure.fir the last 50 years
It's unacceptable.
I'm impressed with the riders who pay. The ones who don't are part of the problem.
TTC needs to invest in express/bypass tracks. Makes no sense to suspend service when a small incident happens.
@@alankingchiu That's physically impossible. You'd have to widen the tunnels which means facing Anglosphere Transit cost disease. And you end up taking 5 years and 10 billion for 1km of track.
This literally happens to me all the time. I've been late to work so much because of delays and whatnot. I finally decided to just leave an hour before my shift starts even though it SHOULD only take 15-20 minutes. Terrible.
T: Toronto
T: Trash
C: Commission
Line 2 is the worst, happens every single day, I also got stuck on Aug 6th had to take uber on surge price to warden station to pick my car up from there, wasted 45 dollars for uber plus 3.30 for TTC from union to bloor
Yikes .
The phone off the hook adds to the chaos 😂 it’s awesome lol 😆
Those LCD screen can be used to display the message instead of CP24. No one can hear what they say through the intercom. Last time I took the subway was 15 years ago and there is still no improvement on the service.
I travelled TTC daily for 25 years to various contract sites across Toronto, but mostly in the downtown core area. For the last 10 years I have been working from home and don't get downtown very often, like maybe once a year. I am shocked at how disgustingly congested it is now at Young and Bloor, I used to love that intersection, now it is impeded by construction barriers, bike lanes and what seems like more people than ever. Don't even get me started on the TTC, I used to love it, but about a year before I started working from home, it was getting really bad. Always standing room only unless you got on at a station. Your scheduled bus would just randomly pass by your stop too crowded to take another passenger and you knew you were waiting for the next bus in 15 to 20 minutes.
Traveling up from Long Island, New York later this month to visit Toronto and will ride the TTC. I can’t believe the horror stories I’m reading as bad as it seems to be it can’t be as bad as the New York City Subway. It seems like human nature for people to complain about their own city transit system.
It's shocking how quickly Toronto went from it's original name "Toronto the good" to the absolute embarrassment this city is now. Quite easily one of the worst cities in the entire world... Sad.
Hold your horses there! 😅😅
Toronto is world class compared to some of its American equivalents.
That's what Torontonians voted for... 3 times in a row! They can't get enough mass immigration.
Good job documenting this. Seems like almost a daily occurrence.
I wonder how much Knorr paid the TTC for completely ad wrapping that busy subway station.
No one cares.
Unilever paid 10k per month
I was on TTC daily. All I can say is, "Thank Goodness I am now retired".
As a Torontonian living here for over 30 years, you quickly learn that you just accept it, get used to it, and quickly adapt.
So, no. Personally, I don't get frustrated by this. I've observed that it's mostly the newcomers that complain way more than they should.
And the garbled TTC announcements? That's been happening way before I was born.
If I'm not recording a video of course I just deal with it, but it goes without saying their communication is absurdly bad and something that could easily be addressed with literally zero dollars invested.
Ah yes, adapt to poor service rather than to seek change and improvement. Not entirely TTC’s fault due to its low funding, but people should expect to see the quality of transportation improve as the years go by - not stay stagnant or get worse.
You forgot to write ‘viewers discretion is advised.’
The TTC is better now as the government is finally pumping money into it to improve service and safety but still needs a lot of work. As little as 1 year ago the TTC was absolutely criminal on how overall bad and unsafe it was.
The service at TTC is the worst that it's ever been. Daily problems and technical issues. Professionalism has gone completely out the window, workers that are full of attitude, supervisors walking around on their phones the whole time "working". They take forever to do anything at TTC and it feels like most employees don't care to be there.
Twice this has happened to me recently when I am on the subway going to catch a Via train. Subway stopped at Dundas with no communication . I jumped off and ran down Yonge St. to Union with my luggage. I made it but was annoyed that I had paid my subway fare for so little benefit having got on at Wellesley. . The second time it happened to me I stayed on the subway train but I could feel my stress rising. Tomorrow, I am going to Union again but will need to catch the Bay St. bus as I found out that the first subway service only starts at 8:15 am from Wellesley on Sundays . As my Go bus leaves at 9am, I am not taking a chance with the subway- I would rather walk!
Yes I remember when I was living in Toronto the way the t.t.c I see not much has changed except for the construction I left 3 yrs ago lol I was born and raised in Toronto myself I don't miss the rush hour of the t.t.c
The TTC is complete trash. The service is extreme unreliable and the ridership is some combination of drunk, homeless, violent, peeing, or talking on cellphones on speaker.
Never depend on the TTC for anything.
The TTC has also become a biohazard. I was on the subway one evening and discovered that the seat I was sitting in had been soiled by one of the many homeless that call the subway home. I've rode the subways in other cities and never have I seen anything as decrepit as the TTC. You don't see this in Montreal.
Lived in Montreal 20 years ago. Back then I noticed their transit systems were superior to Toronto.
Shuttle buses on Bloor street with it being one lane most of the way because of bike lanes....what a nightmare
Hopefully some of the members of the TTC Board watch your videos and experience what the reality is for the consumer - Good video
I recently discovered your channel and thank you for uploading this! I got a car recently and for the last year living in TO I would take line 2 high park to Kipling, which is only like 5 stops. At least twice a week I would get caught in one of these shutdowns, many times the reason would be a security threat or rail work. Getting my car has been a life changer, it's silly how this city wants to prioritize public transit and have less cars on the road, they don't make it easy for us.
Keep up the great content!
Living in Toronto my entire life and using the TTC to travel to university and now work, my entire life, although the TTC has become better, I loath having to use it. After decades, the TTC still lacks proper communication channels. The PAed are completed garbled at the best of times, if anyone ever even tries to communicate issues like this. The last few times I'm travelling with ample time for my connections, but I'd get stuck on a train or at a station without announcements why the service isn't moving, long enough to miss my connections, making a trip that should have taken an hour, taking 3 hours. Thank God for the huge leaps being made above the surface with GO Transit. Whenever possible, I take GO Transit. Service has is continuously expanding and getting more frequent. I'm not sure we'll actually ever see the promised-land of 7-min peak service on all main routes, but taking service even on the hourly stouville line in lieu of taking the smelly-and-slow TTC. Even when a GO train stops to red signal, someone comes online to explain the reason for the stoppage, on a PA system that actually works.
Thank God I never have to go back there - Lived in TO in the mid 90s and glad I left - Couldn't imagine it today .. seems like nothing much has changed
Looking at the users of ttc I couldn’t even tell this was Canada
A friend from my undergraduate studies said she expected to be surrounded by people with blonde hair and blue eyes when she came to Toronto from Seoul to attend OCAD in 2006. I found that amusing as a white boy from Brampton.
Where do they get the shuttle buses? Do they have them on standby? Or do they just rob the bus system?
Lol like the way you put it. Probably rob them from the system.
They must be on standby at how much it happens. The TTC has an extremely large amount of busses. In fact, the TTC runs so many busses that it is the only "positive" thing the TTC has. efficiency? No! Busses! Lots of them. They take pride in all of their busses.
August 8th was a Thursday not a Tuesday. Sorry to be that guy in the comments 😂😅
He said August 6th
There’s always “that guy”….lol
@@mallinen0777 he put 08/08 in the sub title captioning but yes in spoken words he corrected himself
What happens too often? Service disruptions or meltdowns.
Both
Not to mention the temporary more like indefinite slow down between Sheppard and Bloor on line 1
I'm so glad I don't work downtown anymore. It was torture commuting to bay street everyday.
What camera do u use? Is it strapped to ur chest?
this is sad it happens so often at lease you have a train systems here in the US we do not have a train system every where only in the big cities our law makers Love the oil co. so we have cars every where and traffic none stop it not good
Toronto is a big city. TTC is unacceptable and I think the public transit system in Ottawa (Canada's capital) has gone downhill as well. They should take note of Vancouver's SkyTrain---reliable, CLEAN, vinyl seating, grab poles instead of handles...and it's cheaper!
@@julieerin115 I'll have to visit
@@julieerin115LOL Vancouver? The Queen St Streetcar alone handles more people in a day than the entire Vancouver system combined. You’re comparing apples to oranges. The TTC is not just subways, it’s busses and streetcars….and under Metrolinx it’s GO Trains as well. Combine everything together, and it becomes North America’s third largest transport system after Mexico City and New York.
If anything, Toronto should go back to its roots and take notes from the London Underground, where they got inspriation from. Everything was fine until the 90s hit and Harris axed Toronto’s subway extensions. Since then they’ve been playing catch up….😊
@@TMBpk Boy are you wrong. You should use google before you say ridiculous things. The combination of the 11.9 miles of the Canada Line’s (opened in 2009) and the 6.8-mile Evergreen Extension of the Millennium Line (which debuted in late 2016) have pushed the full 49.5-mile Skytrain daily ridership close to 500,000 - the 9th-most used heavy rail system in North America. According to Translink there are 1,200,000 weekday boardings per day in 2023. The 501 Queen streetcar has 53,000 boarding per day and the 504 King Car has 85,000. These are 2019 figures and the streetcars are not back up to them yet. In fact, when it comes to average weekday ridership, TransLink’s SkyTrain is now the fourth busiest metro/subway system in Canada and the United States - behind the New York City Subway, Montreal Metro, and Toronto Subway, but just ahead of the Washington Metro, Chicago L, and Boston subway.
@@julieerin115the skytrain system is also prone to breakdowns. Peoplemovers dont hv good reliability rates. The population has also now outgrown the skytrain.
You are crazy. The communication is great compared to other cities.
5:05 you are complaining about fixed route Ttc try Wheeltrans! You can’t use transfer, no wifi on buses, often a 20min ride is 1.5hrs must book everything in advance at minimum 4hours, and sometimes they just drop you off at a subway station that has no elevator service when you use a wheelchair. Driver doesn’t give you more than 5min to get on and yet you must wait 60min to report late vehicles.
Typical. All the time now. TTC sucks.🤡👎
Hmmm is there a direct correlation between TTC going hard with DEI hiring and all the breakdowns and problems.
@@alexayou6801 It certainly affects communications.
As a brown person.. if I were to tell those people that there is service, they will look at me weird and ignore me
me too i give directions to people and they ignore me because im male
A typical day...
Does it not make more sense for Transit Control to make an announcement every 2/3 minutes and reaching everyone as apposed to operators making them individually and walking over control. TTC has a lot of lazy incompetent people in management positions who are afraid to make decisions.
Public Transit is a nightmare a times because the controversy is 10x worse and embarrassing and i rarely take transit bus due to the waiting so long is an issue.
Classic downtown, always construction and sirens
They are really killing the TTC
You misspelled 'toronto'.
@@EmmaBadOne I have?
I moved from that dreadful city to Vancouver Island 6 years ago and I must say I really miss the hourly TTC delays and bollocks……..NOT!!😃😝👍🏾
Regarding shuttles THEY MUST also have a Wheeltrans bus going both ways for people with disabilities and ask the supervisor or call Wheeltrans priority line
So gridlock in Toronto every day?
Is it just me or is the TTC just getting worse?
11:57 Orange jacket is the guy from degrassi.
Bro had the script of reality ready for that intro
This is why I switched to GO. More reliable and no crackheads or bums allowed it's great.
You should try to get to the Scarborough Bluffs before the summer is over to show everyone the view there. People I speak to from the US don't realize we have beautiful areas here in Toronto too!
crappy pay with crappy to no jobs, with crappy service, and with convenience very low... Ontario just continues to suck.
@@kickbeez642 can’t be worse than Quebec. Quebec is trash
What the… Fabricland?! I hardly recognize Yonge/Bloor since the intersection was demolished and the fun alleyway with shawarmas & a gift shop that lead to the South-East corner TTC entrance was replaced. But Fabricland?! For the same reason as “Value Village Boutique?”😂 Wasn’t there a Fabricland by the intersection that closed a few years back?🤔
I would think that the reason the entrance to the Bloor Danforth subway was not blocked off was because you can still access the Yonge Street line from the Bloor Danforth platform via stairs or escalators.
Reminded me of that song by Alice Cooper...'Welcome to your Nightmare'...lol
I have sat through countless TTC delays, and yet I just watched this 40-minute video of a TTC delay. I must secretly love TTC delays.
6:25 Why was this crazy woman laughing at you. 🤔
Good morning
I believe the best option at that point would be to go south to college and take the 506 to Main Street, and be prepared to transfer to 504 or 505 on Broadview if the subway opens
F Johnny😂😢😂😢❤ been there 😢done that😂😂😂One can never hear the delays UNTIL it is too late sometimes.You should have jumped back up on line 1 Gone home and had a beer😂We all would have done the same😊Unless it was important,that you get to your destination❤
what hours is this video taken?
Does the TTC not post alerts on X /Twiiter. In Waterloo Region, the GRT post alerts there when Ion trains are invoved in an accident or bus routes are cancelled.
And? It doesn't replace or make up for a lack of official and/or coherent communication in the stations/on the streets by the TTC when these things happen.
I have two bad occurrences with the subway. One I was stuck on the train in between two stations on line 1 (I forget which stations I was in between) for about 25 minutes. The other was northbound to finch was cut short and Sheppard-Yonge station was the terminal and there were no shuttle buses. I was staying on abitibi ave across from centrepointe mall
Is it me or are all the disruptions on the Bloor/Danforth Line? It happens alot.
people mess up thats life
0:45 the perfect thickness
I never saw their shuttle buses not a single time, it’s just a gimmick they use every time , only thing I see is uber surge pricing
Working in Toronto as part of my internship for the summer. TTC is the bane of my life atm
Yupe don't miss the TTC. Enough said.
The TTC needs more funding from the gov't. in order to run efficiently. Most large cities on this planet get $$$ support from their government.
By money from goverment you're advocating for more taxes
Yes, and so did ours, but... Ontarians keep on voting for Conservative governments! RIGHT there is the problem. At one time, the provincial government provided a very large chunk of TTC's funding. Tory premier Mike Harris pulled the plug on the province's share *- 25 years ago! -* and no government has had the guts to restore it. Tories are again in power, and even won some 12 seats in Toronto last election (more than usual). Tories like to cut public funding, not provide it. So the TTC system-wide is ill-funded and struggling, while consistently having to raise fares. It goes to show: the way one votes really DOES impact one's day-to-day life!
@@Ban00 Yep! Taxes are glorious. We just have to get up the collective guts to collect it from the right sources (ahem, the rich).
While funding is needed, what is actually needed is Metrolinx to be more proactive in the social media world and explain what the current issues are and how they’re mitigating them. People actually don’t know this, but Toronto right now is undergoing North America’s largest public transport infrastructure construction. They’re building a new subway line (Ontario Line), two new LRT lines (Eglinton and Finch West), the GO Train Electrification and recently they’ve held public seminars about extending the Sheppard Line east to Morningside and West to Sheppard West. Plus Line 7 and the new streetcar lines along Waterfront East.
@@WeeCarBootplease tell me what you consider "rich" in Ontario?
lousy public transit, all the station look like under construction and service is bad and communication is primitive to passengers, definitely not first class city. lack of funds from federal government.
Mmm… shuttle busses
I think I am better off driving an AWD electric Toyota Prius.
no street cars on the street u left after usbway?
They need to have better communication about what's going on with the service there BUT.... I couldn't help but notice but this subway is so clean. The floors , the walls and the tracks are immaculate compared to the New York City Subway System. Inside the train cars are also clean in Toronto. It's also brightly lit in their subway and You don't see people just hanging around down there.
I remember when I was over from the UK a couple of years ago I travelled out to Islington on Line 2 once when I was waiting to hear from my bestie. When I got to Islington she said that she was on the Go train towards Union, so I made my way back that way, only to be told that Line 2 had a disruption at Dundas West. Thankfully it didn’t last long and I got to Union (changing at St George) just as she arrived.
I take Line 2 everyday from Sherbourne to Warden round. Some of the smells I've inhaled into my poor lungs will stick with me till the day I die. One of the worst transit agencies I've ever seen. Just fyi, the employees at the TTC get paid insanely high salaries and I fail to understand why. The way the whole system is run is spectacularly cringe.
good morning everyone
Pretty boring 38 mins
these are the times that you become grateful that you remember that bikeshare is a thing
That video shows a whole lot more than just subway delays.
I haven't taken the subway in 2 years cause I had access to a car...I am so out of touch...now I have to take it again....I'm scared lol
Johnny, you started a movement. People hustled!
Was on east bound that day. I waited cause I don't do shuttle buses.after 1hour and there was no scent of fire. Why do they lie so much
If you need to get to line 2 from line 1 best bet is to go to Ellington station take the 56 Leaside to Donlands Station second option is to go to college street and stand we're the Tim Hortons is and wait for the street car to go to Main Street station
It's the same thing with medical emergencies in New York City . You have to wait for EMS to respond which delays service.
I rather pay extrordinary insurance rates and sit in traffic on the 401 then deal with this bullcrap honestly
I was there that day
Typical incompetence that is the TTC.
Does the TTC now have too much foreign management?