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October 19, 2006
Thurston Howell on public transit
Okay, National Post, we get it. Jacob Richler doesn't like the TTC. If you guys feel the need to provide your readers with his juvenile little snarks so often, maybe you could put a permanent link to his anti-TTC manifesto on his columnist page. Here's the background to the latest tragic story: Comfortably ensconced in Yorkville, the Post's resident gastronome for some reason takes his car in for service "in the vicinity of Laird and Eglinton." (This itself is bizarre — I mean, you wouldn't find a ripe brie for blocks.) This is Richler's complaint:
I realized I hadn't a clue how to get from a Yorkville restaurant to the vicinity of Laird and Eglinton, where my repaired ride was waiting.
I suppose for the sake of efficiency you would travel underground for a while. So from Avenue I would have traipsed over to Yonge-Bloor Station, home to North America's filthiest public loos, then headed north to Eglinton, then boarded an eastbound bus to Laird, then waited for another one heading south -- if there is one.
Two subways and a bus — oh, the humanity. I realize he's trying to be funny, but there isn't even a shred of a real beef here. He's essentially complaining that the TTC hasn't somehow implanted an innate knowledge of the system in his brain (or perhaps that the transit boffins haven't yet recommended a Pangaea-to-Speedy Muffler express bus). If he'd bothered to check a map (available on the internet!) he'd have found any number of options — all of which, sadly, are indeed slower than the taxi he ended up taking. But it also would have cost him about $25 less. That's like a quarter of a casual Tuesday night dinner for one!
Posted by Chris Selley at October 19, 2006 04:26 PM
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If he'd bothered to check a map (available on the internet!) he'd have found any number of options
He could have also called the TTC, told them where he was starting from and where he wanted to go and they would have given him instructions on how to get there.
Posted by: Robert McClelland at October 20, 2006 01:12 AM
Yeah! What a dumb-ass. I mean, *everybody* knows the Finch Subway has the dirtiest cans!
Posted by: sheena at October 29, 2006 04:36 PM