Letter To The Idiots

Toronto Transit Commission
1900 Yonge Street
Toronto, Ontario
M4S 1Z2

Dear TTC,

Can someone at your fine organization please explain the logic behind your recent effort to construct new bus shelters? Specifically, I'm referring to the part of the plan that calls for the removal of the old bus shelters before the new onesówhich occupy a different space, yards awayóhave been erected. Could you not have left the old shelters up until the new ones are complete? Y'see, when it's raining, even an apparently obsolete bus shelter is better than none. Perhaps one of your project managers could explain the bus shelter replacement strategy. Which of them would be better able to respond to my enquiry, Cheech or Chong?

It's already frustrating enough waiting 10-15 minutes every morning rush hour at Finch and McCowan for the "Express" Finch East bus (39E)ówaiting and waitingóonly to have three, sometimes four 39E's arrive at the same time. Typically, the first bus is standing-room-only, the second is half-full and the others virtually empty. This need for a convoy system eludes me. But perhaps you have your reasons for it, as well as for the removal of the bus shelters. And maybe I'm just all wet.

Yours in transit (unfortunately),

Jim Kelly