You must have missed one of two things - either the announcement yesterday, or your understanding of TTC math.
See - when the fuckers were mandated back to work by dumb bum Dalton, the TTC said "once the legislation is passed, it will take about 4 hours to get service up and running to full capacity."
FOUR HOURS.
Which in TTC math, means that they will be running at full capacity when, "all three levels of government give us more money damn it ... and screw your schedules, I want a coffee!"
Rob, you know I love you, but you're wrong on this one. I thought four hours to get everything up and running from nothing was pretty damned fast.
The drivers weren't all standing around at the yards on the off chance they'd be called back to work. They would have been at home, watching the news. That means that they needed to find out if they were going in and then get to work somehow (lots of them take the TTC to work!)
The vehicles had to be checked before they could go out, and the whole subway line had to be double checked before they could run passengers through it.
I like the picture I posted because it describes the lazy ass attitude of a LOT of the drivers and the TTC during normal service.
And no, they didn't know for sure the back-to-work legislation would go through because of our dear friends at the NDP.
The strike was caused by the union, not by the TTC. Mismanagement at the TTC is a whole other ball of useless wax.
Let's keep our eye on the ball: Kinnear's an incompetent dickhead.
*ponders* Lisa might have something to say about this you know.
And also, as it happened, it only took about 30 minutes for the first buses to get back on the roads after the legislation passed. An hour and a half after, the service was apparently at 45%.
So I can actually see the four hours. Me thinks, though, that you totally missed my sarcastic tone. I blame Al Gore for that one.
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See - when the fuckers were mandated back to work by dumb bum Dalton, the TTC said "once the legislation is passed, it will take about 4 hours to get service up and running to full capacity."
FOUR HOURS.
Which in TTC math, means that they will be running at full capacity when, "all three levels of government give us more money damn it ... and screw your schedules, I want a coffee!"
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The drivers weren't all standing around at the yards on the off chance they'd be called back to work. They would have been at home, watching the news. That means that they needed to find out if they were going in and then get to work somehow (lots of them take the TTC to work!)
The vehicles had to be checked before they could go out, and the whole subway line had to be double checked before they could run passengers through it.
I like the picture I posted because it describes the lazy ass attitude of a LOT of the drivers and the TTC during normal service.
And no, they didn't know for sure the back-to-work legislation would go through because of our dear friends at the NDP.
The strike was caused by the union, not by the TTC. Mismanagement at the TTC is a whole other ball of useless wax.
Let's keep our eye on the ball: Kinnear's an incompetent dickhead.
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*ponders* Lisa might have something to say about this you know.
And also, as it happened, it only took about 30 minutes for the first buses to get back on the roads after the legislation passed. An hour and a half after, the service was apparently at 45%.
So I can actually see the four hours. Me thinks, though, that you totally missed my sarcastic tone. I blame Al Gore for that one.
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I'm quite surprised that all I've seen from TTC riders today was a lot of glaring, and a few shaking heads. Go Torontonians!
As for Al Gore, I'm sure he didn't know what he was starting when he invented the interweeb.
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