When I used to travel from Keele to Scarborough Town Centre (nearly the entire length of the city -- for those non-Torontonians) every day seemed to bring a new breakdown, shuttlebus, or some other delay.

This morning, I was a 20 minutes late because of TTC wackiness. I know the feeling.

Obviously, many TTC patrons are idiots -- just look at their garbage/recycling area. Every single bin has the same mixture of newspapers (those not left on the floor for us to trip on), coffee cups and water bottles. They can't follow the signs with handy diagrams. Or today, when we had to evacuate the train at Ossington. The first people off the train just blocked the doorway. They didn't want to let anyone else off. (Which is pretty much how they board the train too.)

I've noticed when shuttlebuses are deployed at Ossington station (thankfully not today), no one has any idea where they will show up. There are no signs to be posted, no helpful people in maroon jackets shouting instructions -- just a crazy, anarchist mob ready to push all other patrons into traffic.

But I'm told it's much better than the New York subway.

Allen