The Mayor Called Them Listen To Toronto Sessions

What a con job that has proven to be and now we have Transit Camps to change the TTC. Don't hold your breath. You want to improve the TTC....privatize it and take away it's monoply status. This makes as much sense as the crap we have been fed by Moscoe over the last three years and some of the ideas that seem to have come out of this camp....

A Quiet Car and an Improve Your English car in subway trains. A lapel button to indicate you're feeling gregarious.

Minding the gaps on The Better Way
A Quiet Car and an Improve Your English car in subway trains. A lapel button to indicate you're feeling gregarious. When 100 TTC lovers assembled recently for Transit Camp, they had visions aplenty for the system
February 11, 2007
Leslie Scrivener

Say it's been a frantic day at work – phone calls, interruptions, intrusions. The day ends and you long for silence, but a subway ride lies ahead. What to do? Why, at the station make your way directly to the Quiet Car, the one without conversation, where cellphones and announcements are silenced.

The Quiet Car may not suit everyone. But, if you're feeling friendly, put on a lapel button that says "OK," a signal that you're open to conversation.

Want to improve your English? Head for the Improve Your English Car, where volunteers will help you practise for the duration of your ride.

These ideas emerged during last Sunday's Transit Camp, a day of out-of-the-tunnel thinking on how to improve the Toronto Transit Commission, specifically, its clunky website, its shelters, its subway cars and the way it communicates with its riders.

The 100 or so campers were young, in their 20s and early 30s, mostly people who work in the communications and tech industries and university students, all madly in love with transit. The TTC is symbolic of their relationship with the city – but more about that later.

The TTC Commission needs to go to camp....a reality camp.