New math at the TTC
The 122 Graydon Hall Bus Route temporary extension is about to be made permanent on the basis of some pretty funny math. This new service will cost me and all the other taxpayers in Toronto $113,000 per year, this is not a funny number.
More from the numerically challenged staff at TTC.
The viability of this new service revolved around the TTC picking up 460 "BRAND NEW RIDERS" daily (read: did not use the TTC prior to this route extension) or so they said in June 2004. Now in May 2005 we are told they couldn't identify a "BRAND NEW RIDER" if one jumped up and bit them in the fare box. Didn't they already know this?
But don't worry it's OK because included in all the grossly inflated ridership figures is the news that 140 daily riders both began and ended their trips within the area served by the new extension. Hold on there, where are they going pray tell in a neighbourhood with 3 public schools, one of which hosts a daycare facility and no commercial, retail or industrial properties to generate this traffic. Maybe they just like to ride around all day and pump up those ridership numbers.
Creative counting seems to be a career boosting talent if you work for the TTC or does it work like the survey outfits, give the client/your boss the answer they want to hear? The TTC told us that they have tallied an average of 650 Riders per day on this route extension, the truth is more like half that number and almost 50% of those Riders are students.
For a background to this story please visit http://www3.sympatico.ca/donvalley
More from the numerically challenged staff at TTC.
The viability of this new service revolved around the TTC picking up 460 "BRAND NEW RIDERS" daily (read: did not use the TTC prior to this route extension) or so they said in June 2004. Now in May 2005 we are told they couldn't identify a "BRAND NEW RIDER" if one jumped up and bit them in the fare box. Didn't they already know this?
But don't worry it's OK because included in all the grossly inflated ridership figures is the news that 140 daily riders both began and ended their trips within the area served by the new extension. Hold on there, where are they going pray tell in a neighbourhood with 3 public schools, one of which hosts a daycare facility and no commercial, retail or industrial properties to generate this traffic. Maybe they just like to ride around all day and pump up those ridership numbers.
Creative counting seems to be a career boosting talent if you work for the TTC or does it work like the survey outfits, give the client/your boss the answer they want to hear? The TTC told us that they have tallied an average of 650 Riders per day on this route extension, the truth is more like half that number and almost 50% of those Riders are students.
For a background to this story please visit http://www3.sympatico.ca/donvalley
posted by Don at 10:45 AM
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People who want TTC busses at their doors are the same ones who will cry and carry on when they go for cancer treatment or heart surgery and they are told, sorry there is no money for that, your dollars went into TTC busses riding around the city empty, you spent the health care money on fuel for the empty busses, salaries for the drivers and new busses that idle around the city, and generally have riders duing peak periods....but hey, we all choose.....David Suzzuki said that the thousands with Asthma is the signal "the canary died"...the people who want busses at their doors can't see the whole picture...or are not capable of intectually understand that when a dollar is spent, it is gone.....
every day there is a news story about the health care system falling apart, people not able to get life saving drugs and having long waits for surgery....if TTC had any moral fibre they would stop begging at the trough for more money and admit their waste of money, change their routes so that there are busses when needed, i.e. rush hours only, if TTC gave some money back, and did not take any more until they figured out how to run a business with efficiency, then perhaps, our health care would benefit
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