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Toronto-Age |OT3| Going Off the Rails on a Gravy Train

Kave_Man

come in my shame circle
CP24 @CP24
There is no subway service from Union to Bloor-Yonge stations due to a Toronto Hydro investigation at Richmond & Church, the TTC says.

CP24 @CP24
UPDATE: A TTC spokesperson tells CP24 that service between Union and Bloor-Yonge stations is not likely to be restored until noon.

Happy Monday y'all!
 
Video and Arcade Top 10!

I was on that show three times and won twice!


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burger (patty melt):
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Rose and Sons
 

EvilMario

Will QA for food.
Suddenly the vote count doubled and now they're all tied up equally.

I'm working on OT4 right now and it's almost completed. If we're at 20,000 by this evening, I should have it ready to roll.
 

Blackhead

Redarse
y'all are some cynics. can't we get a title saying some good things about Toronto? |OT| 10 things generic asians know about the best ranked city to live in. click now
 

ahdurian

Member
Anyone got any good food recommendations around Queen or King West?
Been getting bored of the food by my work, and don't really feel like going to Yonge today for food =/
 

Roto13

Member
My beloved Molested by a Burger Priest is in last. This will not do.
I used to watch YTV basically from when I got home to when I went to bed as a kid. Pokemon, Beast Wars, Dragon Ball Z, Digimon, Sailor Moon, Gundam Wing... and I know I'm forgetting a bunch. Good times.

Video and Arcade Top 10 was also the shit. Watching video games being played on TV was surreal back then. That show would usually introduce me to games I hadn't even heard of before, too. A cool looking game would be played, and off to Blockbuster I'd go.

Those kids were so infuriatingly bad at those games a lot of the time. Especially when there was a very clear goal (like whoever has the most rupees wins) and they'd just fuck around doing whatever.

I was on that show three times and won twice!


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That is a good one.
 

Mhee123

Neo Member
Sorry I haven't posted here. I might as well add some titles.

Toronto-age |OT4| 10% off Target Games, 200% increase of Everything Else

Toronto-age |OT4| Leafs win, but still lose

Toronto-age |OT4| King Rob The Ford Part deux
 

EvilMario

Will QA for food.
Audit finds 'unacceptable' spending practices at TTC; Millions spent on non-revenue fleet with few records.

Toronto's auditor general is concerned about financial mismanagement of a fleet of TTC vehicles not used to transport passengers.

The so-called non-revenue fleet — not buses or streetcars — takes up $2 million in fuel expenses every year. An additional $7 million per year is spent to maintain the fleet of vehicles, even though some are rarely used.

Beverly Romeo-Beehler's audit states that sloppy and incomplete records make it impossible to track whether the millions of dollars for the non-revenue fleet are being properly spent.

The city can't track how more than 400 fuel cards are being used. More than 2,000 staff have access to the cards, which are not assigned to specific vehicles.


The audit shows that the TTC's non-revenue fleet can often cost more to maintain than to buy the vehicle outright. The TTC also rents 81 personal vehicles, three of which have been on the books for more than nine years.

"I can't explain why we would rent a car for that long," said Byford.
 

EvilMario

Will QA for food.
One reason to hate TTC

It just find it hilarious that they've had three vehicles rented out full time for nine years.

TTC definitely needs more (ie; any) funding for yearly operations from the Province, but are so incredibly inefficient with what they have. Refusal to automate the system in a way that might cost people jobs down the line, kicking and screaming to make small upgrades like the audio announcements on buses that they fought and a really terrible transfer, token and paper pass system. Even Smiley laughed at our transfer system. :(
 

Sober

Member
Pretty sure OT3 also sat in OT for a while before it got moved. Could use a fresh set of eyes IMO before we get cast off into oblivion.
 

EvilMario

Will QA for food.
Is the OT going to go up in Off-Topic or skip right to Community?

Pretty sure OT3 also sat in OT for a while before it got moved. Could use a fresh set of eyes IMO before we get cast off into oblivion.

Yep, I'll be posting in Off-Topic so that new people can take notice of the thread. We've gained and lost a bunch of people over this thread's life time, but I still feel like we're not really known to a bunch of members. I see tons of Toronto people in Canadian Deals and Off-Topic threads about Toronto that don't post here. Maybe if they know about this thread and choose not to post, but I'll bet many of them have just never clicked on the Community tab.
 
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