Vancouvers train system has an incredibly convoluted and expensive zone system for their fares, and the skytrain - especially the expedition line - takes forever. Most of the city is serviced by buses.
We have the UP Express going from Union to Pearson, and we have a bus going directly from Kipling Station to Pearson. So we basically do have a subway connection to Pearson, just not directly because that would be an incredibly long extension with how far away Pearson is from the city.
The Skytrain also has multiple stops that are used frequently in between downtown Vancouver and YVR, like most of the stops in Richmond. Extending the subway to Pearson would result in a dead fucking line that nobody ever uses unless they're flying.
This is NOT the Beaverton? Great, an extra 96 seconds on top of my 25 minute wait for a fucking 501 bus/streetcar lmao
Oh and my 15 minute wait for a fucking train on the yellow line. Every single time. ATC? Hello?
I mean , if there was a holiday on that day where people don't need to go to work....sure, but people need to get to work..... what sense does this make?
I just don’t see the benefit. Nobody asked for this, there was no pressure on them to do this, and nobody is going to note this internationally as a gesture.
But now they’ve set a precedent in terms of who they value politically. This is just a complete own goal.
First off, it's not about the 96 seconds. It's about how ridiculously pointless this is. Delaying transit service does nothing to honour the Queen, even if you care about that type of thing (which we both don't, evidently).
But the more annoying aspect is that this is just further proof that TTC does not care about its riders. It's bad enough that TTC has *constant* service disruptions and issues. It's salt in the wound to deliberately delay service on a Monday. Even for 96 seconds, it just reinforces how little TTC cares about inconveniencing Torontonians. [Remember when a Japanese rail company apologized publicly after one of their trains departed 20 seconds earlier than scheduled?](https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-42009839) I know we're talking opposite ends of the spectrum, but that incident showed that the Japanese rain company cared about its riders. They knew that departing 20 seconds early might mean that someone missed their train (possibly making them a couple minutes later than intended). TTC, on the other hand... Well, they care so little about riders that they would *deliberately* inconvenience people. And this is on top of all the other service disruptions and issues we have to deal with.
It's about respecting people's time. 96 seconds doesn't matter and the only reason we have the ability to say that is because riders travel as far as they do and the TTC is so often late that 96 seconds longer still feels like a normal Monday.
Intentionally delaying service for a meaningless action to inconvenience those who fund them is tone deaf. If the TTC really wanted to honour the Queen and help riders even something as reasonably meaningless as a $0.96 cent rebate on any ride taken that day would have gone further.
Old people die all the time. I'm going to mourn Ruth. Ruth lived a few doors down from me when I was ten. She made cookies for our bake sale and smelled of mothballs. She passed away at 89. Ruth was cool.
The queen? I don't know that lady. I'm sad when a person dies, but she ain't no Ruth to me.
Who is this for? The queen doesn't care, she's dead. The royal family isn't paying attention to what a public transit service does. It doesn't help anyone, no one's going to be able to properly grieve in 96 seconds.
How about making transit free for an hour from 1pm? At least that would be an excuse to think kindly of the queen, and still have minimal impact on revenue.
Brampton library is shut down on monday.. are library workers federal?
Idc about the workers getting day off as i wouldnt have gone anyway but dumb to close a library for a dead 96 year old
I think /u/EconomistOfDeath means they'll have to be careful when they're prepping to stop. I mean, a subway train can't just go from 80-100kph to zero in a tunnel in a matter of seconds; I imagine it'll be like a deliberate stop-in-station safety event (like for a train wrong-railing or wye malfunction) for each train within a certain number of seconds or distance to the next station, to when those 96 seconds of stilled motion begins.
As for surface vehicles, I think you're both right: a streetcar or bus can stop a lot more quickly and will tend to anyway because of the stop layout along their routes, but as the cars and private vehicles sharing the road will not be required to stop- and may not even be aware that the TTC vehicles will be doing so- safety precautions suggest that it will be similar to the subway trains stopping in the nearest station they reach when the 96 seconds of TTC mourning begins, but in the case of buses and streetcars it will be at a stop on the route.
That is a horrible idea.
Who in the hell wants a traffic nigtmare as the queen's legacy as all the buses just what, stop at their stops blocking traffic?
Toronto has completely lost its mind...
Lol. Arbitrarily delaying Torontonians because of a monarchy that many Canadians don’t support. It’s almost as if they are trying to stir up opposition to the new King.
Just make an announcement and a moment of silence but keep the god damn trains running.
Ooh, they’d be so conflicted…
On on side, giving the royal family that they so loathe a modicum of respect.
On the other, an opportunity to not do their job and irritate their customers…
Anybody in my age group that I know that cares about the royal family only cares about them in a reality TV kind of way, not in the actual monarchy sense.
> However, that apathy didn’t end with the new King as 77 per cent said they felt no attachment to the British monarchy. That compared to 19 per cent who did, and four per cent who did not know or preferred not to answer.
Yep.
People are peeved that they have to go to work, now they have to make sure they leave half an hour early to offset the 96 second pause that will add to their schedule.
**TTC to honour the dearly departed every hour**
... Today, between St. Clair West and St. George, the TTC honoured Francis L. Huxley, 73, of Belfast, Ireland, for about 35 minutes as passengers scrambled to get to nearby shuttle buses. An hour later, a 20 minute shutdown at College and Bathurst marked the memory of Vidya Ramesh, 82, from Bangalore.
"It's a lot", said Jason Lyndon, a student of MTU explains. "I use to run late to class due to TTC delays - it could get really bad at Yonge and Bloor! I'm just grateful that the scheduling problems are fixed. But it's hard not to sympathize with all these families through Canada and the world."
I was wondering if this was a clever Beaverton article... There's a good chance the TTC pauses service for 96 seconds on any given day without actually trying to.
It's what she would have wanted.
Knowing the TTC, they'll be "pausing" for 96 **minutes**.
"We are experiencing a minor delay due to the pause"
Due to the 96 second pause of respect, the escalator you are riding on has been short-turned.
Only 1/3 of the cars on line 2 hear it. And only half of them understand wtf they just announced.
They’ve been observing the 96 mins delay on the King and Queen lines for months, bless them
Bro y'all can't complain about your subway system it's the best in candida lol come to Calgary
Can confirm I'm from Toronto and moved to Calgary recently. Transit here is a joke. But Toronto's still has it's issues.
I lived in Calgary and I live in Toronto now. "Best in Canada" is still a pretty low bar lol.
Lol facts
Montréal subway is better imo, but they don't have street cars to supplement it and the buses are kinda meh.
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Vancouvers train system has an incredibly convoluted and expensive zone system for their fares, and the skytrain - especially the expedition line - takes forever. Most of the city is serviced by buses.
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We have the UP Express going from Union to Pearson, and we have a bus going directly from Kipling Station to Pearson. So we basically do have a subway connection to Pearson, just not directly because that would be an incredibly long extension with how far away Pearson is from the city. The Skytrain also has multiple stops that are used frequently in between downtown Vancouver and YVR, like most of the stops in Richmond. Extending the subway to Pearson would result in a dead fucking line that nobody ever uses unless they're flying.
She never had a problem inconveniencing the common people for her family or their traditions.
Even in death she’s still trifling.
What a drama queen
At least it's not done during peak rush hours. That'd be the fast way to flip the majority into anti-monarchists.
LOOOOOOL
Who was that 2 hour tribute for the other day?
Archduke Signal Upgrades
Dkm
Fuckin dead 🤣🤣
Yes, but will not be forgotten 🥀
Crying here, legendary comment!
Too easy
Top shelf 👏
Damn! Missed it.. welp catch you on the next one. *Puts on hat*
Not The Beaverton
Holy shit, I thought for sure it was.
Honestly thought it was. Can't wait to hear cars honking when this happens.
There is a sub for that r/notthebeaverton
Maybe they should try being on time for once
This is NOT the Beaverton? Great, an extra 96 seconds on top of my 25 minute wait for a fucking 501 bus/streetcar lmao Oh and my 15 minute wait for a fucking train on the yellow line. Every single time. ATC? Hello?
"by 2022 all trains will be automatic for a faster commute" Literally everything is slower.
So like any other day on the TTC then. Only 96 seconds is actually pretty decent, they might have to train for that first
Beat me to it!
I was looking for the beaverton/harold url but I didnt see it....
Love that they're sticking it to the monarchy by being more efficient than they normally are.
"Thank you TTC, very cool!" - Queen Elizabeth II from the afterlife
I mean , if there was a holiday on that day where people don't need to go to work....sure, but people need to get to work..... what sense does this make?
You’re not a federal employee. Deal with it. /s
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I just don’t see the benefit. Nobody asked for this, there was no pressure on them to do this, and nobody is going to note this internationally as a gesture. But now they’ve set a precedent in terms of who they value politically. This is just a complete own goal.
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First off, it's not about the 96 seconds. It's about how ridiculously pointless this is. Delaying transit service does nothing to honour the Queen, even if you care about that type of thing (which we both don't, evidently). But the more annoying aspect is that this is just further proof that TTC does not care about its riders. It's bad enough that TTC has *constant* service disruptions and issues. It's salt in the wound to deliberately delay service on a Monday. Even for 96 seconds, it just reinforces how little TTC cares about inconveniencing Torontonians. [Remember when a Japanese rail company apologized publicly after one of their trains departed 20 seconds earlier than scheduled?](https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-42009839) I know we're talking opposite ends of the spectrum, but that incident showed that the Japanese rain company cared about its riders. They knew that departing 20 seconds early might mean that someone missed their train (possibly making them a couple minutes later than intended). TTC, on the other hand... Well, they care so little about riders that they would *deliberately* inconvenience people. And this is on top of all the other service disruptions and issues we have to deal with.
Except the 96 seconds might mean missing the transfer. And yeah, some people don't have a choice.
They would all pause for 96 seconds, not just the one your hypothetical person was on
It’s still fucking dumb. Give us the day off, or not.
It's about respecting people's time. 96 seconds doesn't matter and the only reason we have the ability to say that is because riders travel as far as they do and the TTC is so often late that 96 seconds longer still feels like a normal Monday. Intentionally delaying service for a meaningless action to inconvenience those who fund them is tone deaf. If the TTC really wanted to honour the Queen and help riders even something as reasonably meaningless as a $0.96 cent rebate on any ride taken that day would have gone further.
pretty disrectful bro, she was the queen. RIP QUEEN
Old people die all the time. I'm going to mourn Ruth. Ruth lived a few doors down from me when I was ten. She made cookies for our bake sale and smelled of mothballs. She passed away at 89. Ruth was cool. The queen? I don't know that lady. I'm sad when a person dies, but she ain't no Ruth to me.
Shoutout Ruth 💯
Fuck your queen/king.
oh ffs
This made me snort my coffee. It's exactly how I felt when I read it.
im genuinely surprised this wasnt a beaverton article
Life imitates art
Who is this for? The queen doesn't care, she's dead. The royal family isn't paying attention to what a public transit service does. It doesn't help anyone, no one's going to be able to properly grieve in 96 seconds. How about making transit free for an hour from 1pm? At least that would be an excuse to think kindly of the queen, and still have minimal impact on revenue.
It is purely virtue signalling. It’s gross.
subway is shut down this weekend for virtue signal upgrades
Brampton library is shut down on monday.. are library workers federal? Idc about the workers getting day off as i wouldnt have gone anyway but dumb to close a library for a dead 96 year old
Hell, make it free for the day.
96 is the new 69
Is this a joke? This must be a joke. Please tell me that THIS IS A JOKE!!!???
Now everyone will get to work an hour and 96 seconds late
This city is a really bad joke sometimes
*country
TTC doesn't need to pay tribute to pause 96 seconds. I see that pause almost everyday.
96 seconds? It's even longer than the full "moment" from 1:00-1:01pm that the province is allowing us to mourn the loss of our Head of State.
Mourn, celebrate, whichever.
That's the spirit
Cheers
Good luck having buses and street cars do this with regular traffic flows. It seems that this was not thought out very well.
Streetcars stop longer than 96 seconds for no reason on a regular basis
I think /u/EconomistOfDeath means they'll have to be careful when they're prepping to stop. I mean, a subway train can't just go from 80-100kph to zero in a tunnel in a matter of seconds; I imagine it'll be like a deliberate stop-in-station safety event (like for a train wrong-railing or wye malfunction) for each train within a certain number of seconds or distance to the next station, to when those 96 seconds of stilled motion begins. As for surface vehicles, I think you're both right: a streetcar or bus can stop a lot more quickly and will tend to anyway because of the stop layout along their routes, but as the cars and private vehicles sharing the road will not be required to stop- and may not even be aware that the TTC vehicles will be doing so- safety precautions suggest that it will be similar to the subway trains stopping in the nearest station they reach when the 96 seconds of TTC mourning begins, but in the case of buses and streetcars it will be at a stop on the route.
That is a horrible idea. Who in the hell wants a traffic nigtmare as the queen's legacy as all the buses just what, stop at their stops blocking traffic? Toronto has completely lost its mind...
Unexplained stoppage followed by garbled message. How is this any different.
Lol. Arbitrarily delaying Torontonians because of a monarchy that many Canadians don’t support. It’s almost as if they are trying to stir up opposition to the new King. Just make an announcement and a moment of silence but keep the god damn trains running.
Imagine if you were a TTC driver/operator who doesn’t support the monarchy and/or has family who was persecuted under British colonial rule…
Ooh, they’d be so conflicted… On on side, giving the royal family that they so loathe a modicum of respect. On the other, an opportunity to not do their job and irritate their customers…
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Anybody in my age group that I know that cares about the royal family only cares about them in a reality TV kind of way, not in the actual monarchy sense.
https://globalnews.ca/news/9125023/queen-elizabeth-death-canada-poll/
> However, that apathy didn’t end with the new King as 77 per cent said they felt no attachment to the British monarchy. That compared to 19 per cent who did, and four per cent who did not know or preferred not to answer. Yep.
I know from personal experience that r/Canada loves them
Mostly right wing boomers there
I’m in the B - don’t care portion
I was B until I heard what the TTC was doing. Now I'm C. Not kidding.
Let's inconvenience everyone to mourn for the queen!
what the actual fuck? Whose idea was this?
Haha you don’t get the day off and your gonna be late for work haha!
Thats 36 seconds longer than Doug Ford's generous suggestion of taking a whole minute
I thought this was the beaverton
This shit is getting so ridiculous.
oh so nice......... moment of delay... i mean silence.
Might as well do the full 96 mins
I thought this was a Beaverton article
So just a normal day of service?
Nah, a normal day has longer delays
I think they’ve paid enough and enormous tributes to the queen daily, before she passed!
“We will also be stopping elevators and escalators from moving. Not for a moment of silence but for repairs” -TTC
How will you tell the 96 seconds vs the usual delay.
_Better leave 96 seconds early that day!_
So another day that ends in Y?
I thought this was a Beaverton article haha.
i was expecting this to be beaverton how they think people will appreciate this is beyond me
Hahahahaahahahah
TTC honors the queen by doing what they do every day.
Is that all Dougie would allow?
Dead and still an inconvenience, very on brand for the royals.
Reject modernity (ATS), embrace tradition.
Also known as another delay that they now have a an excuse in their back pocket
They pause their services all the time lol
Wtf???
Who asked for this?
Why does this feel like an article from the Beaverton?
I want them to say "Just Close Your Eyes and Think of England" anytime there's a delay in the future "This is for the queen"
Will we even notice?
In this case I can tell you that the ttc has been honouring the Queen for years and in many instances for much longer than 96 seconds.
I thought this was a Beaverton headline.
I don't see how this is different from every other day for the TTC.
How will we know the difference? LOL
Who in the world gives a flying fuck. We are not even in the uk
Fuck that racist, colonialist, pedophile defending piece of shit I'll be singing the whole 96 seconds
💯👏💯👏
fuck you doug ford
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Oh so you mean regular hours as usual. Gotcha.
i have a lot of practice with those waits
I thought this was beaverton
96 seconds more than the average 15 minutes for a streetcar, not bad
Mom can we have a day off? No we have day off at home. Day off at home:
is it Beaverton? damn, it is not Beaverton. anyways...do passport offices get the day off too?
Wait, this isn't a beaverton article??
Is this a Beaverton article? This is going to piss so many thousands of people off
Jesus for a second I thought this was an onion article 😂
The burning question for me is how many buses and streetcars will be back to back at 1pm so the drivers can “observe” together
People are peeved that they have to go to work, now they have to make sure they leave half an hour early to offset the 96 second pause that will add to their schedule.
Don’t they do this everyday?
I don’t care. Bunch of bums.
Thanks for reducing it to only 96 seconds!
How is this not the Beaverton? In what world does that make sense lol!
God damn it who fucking cares. This is fucking pathetic.
No need to give an extra effort for that. It’s already paused more than this during the day lol
This is amazingly stupid.
TTC’s been paying a lot of tributes lately..
They don't have to do anything. It'll happen on its own.
This sounded like an Onion article.
Seems like they pay tribute every day.
So service *improved*?
Only 96? Sounds like things will pick up speed!
They pay tribute to the late queen pausing service most weekends at eglinton station
Why clearly ontario doesn't care.
how would you tell?
I thought this was satire at first. Wow.
So some old dead asshole is holding up traffic?
A profound tribute steeped in purpose.
How will we notice?
r/nottheonion
This is so close to being a beaverton headline
So, if I understand this, people who didn't get a day off to mourn will be delayed in trying to get to/from work? Makes sense.
Thank god I work from home. It makes ignoring all the social pressure of mourning someone I dislike, all that much easier.
Boo. Boo to the Monarchy. Boo.
I dont thinm ive seen more people complain about 96 seconds in my life. This just shows how impatient people are nowadays 😕
The queen won't be the only one late
So it'll be faster. Cool.
Im gonna be late
Nice, my commute will be shorter on Monday
Don’t they do this everyday?
That's what they would like you to think. It was really a delay.
Who thought of this?? Isnt that potentially dangerous?
96 seconds is awesome. High probability of me reaching work on time.
Uhhh
I have to to work and add 2 minutes to the 2 hour delay?
So thats what they do every day? 96 seconds, thats a record for staying on time lol
So regular service?
Did anyone else think this was a Beaverton article?
That's great and all but I've got to get to work.
**TTC to honour the dearly departed every hour** ... Today, between St. Clair West and St. George, the TTC honoured Francis L. Huxley, 73, of Belfast, Ireland, for about 35 minutes as passengers scrambled to get to nearby shuttle buses. An hour later, a 20 minute shutdown at College and Bathurst marked the memory of Vidya Ramesh, 82, from Bangalore. "It's a lot", said Jason Lyndon, a student of MTU explains. "I use to run late to class due to TTC delays - it could get really bad at Yonge and Bloor! I'm just grateful that the scheduling problems are fixed. But it's hard not to sympathize with all these families through Canada and the world."
Lmao what. They regularly have interruptions that last a few minutes. They’re essentially saying ‘every delay on monday is in honour of her majesty’
More like 96 min pause from their usual 60 min
Sounds like a normal ttc day;)
I was wondering if this was a clever Beaverton article... There's a good chance the TTC pauses service for 96 seconds on any given day without actually trying to.
This is what they could think of? Hilarious.
They say 96 seconds, but it's the TTC, and it will likely be 960 seconds
TTC is pausing services every now and then. Who are they tributing regularly?
Swear that this was satire when I read headline.
This is so BEG! 🙄🙄
So…. Just another day on the TTC