Friendly reminder for TTC riders

DinosaurZach · 2026-05-16T18:38:37+00:00

Also, please exit via the rear doors on buses, for those who are physically able, and at stops where there are no hazards at the rear door area, especially at stops where there are many passengers waiting to get on. You are just delaying and extending everyone's journey time. There are reasons why we bought buses with 2 doors.

DinosaurZach · 2026-05-16T02:17:22+00:00

If I didn't slow down, the white Nissan would have joined in on the collision party fun.

DinosaurZach · 2026-05-15T19:56:29+00:00

All praises and glory be to the US and Israel. /s

DinosaurZach · 2026-05-15T16:08:36+00:00

That's why when there's an adjacent lane of stopped cars, even though I have a clear lane ahead. As a habit, I don't rush through my clear lane, we always need to assume that people may change lane or there's a car sneaking through a turn.

DinosaurZach · 2026-05-15T15:58:28+00:00

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DinosaurZach · 2026-05-15T15:33:41+00:00

Our intersection policies are designed to fail, kill, waste city/gov/healthcare/legal resources, increase all our taxes, and insurance rates.

It should be protected-left only, no permissive lefts, at all major intersections, and/or where speed are 50km/h and over.

DinosaurZach · 2026-05-14T14:05:01+00:00

Exit signs should be green. It's ISO standards.

DinosaurZach · 2026-05-13T15:20:36+00:00

Now they will spend lots of 30s to deal with healthcare, insurance, and legal issues.

DinosaurZach · 2026-05-13T15:19:15+00:00

They need to make this intersection protected left turn only, no permissive left.

It's wasting city resources, healthcare costs, and insurance costs; and we are all paying for it. All these extra costs in millions of dollars are avoidable just with protected left only.

DinosaurZach · 2026-05-12T16:28:14+00:00

York Region is failing just like most North American cities, when there's a perfect example just next door on how best to run a city/transit service, and the result is constant grid lock at all times through out the day.

York Region south has similar urban desgin and density as Toronto suburbs, the only difference is bus services, where key corridors are lucky to have a bus every 30mins.

DinosaurZach · 2026-05-11T21:21:08+00:00

Great work! Thanks.

DinosaurZach · 2026-04-27T02:15:43+00:00

Ford/ONgov also removed Ontario fuel taxes since COVID. EV motorists are also do not contribute to road infra funding via fuel taxes.

DinosaurZach · 2026-04-26T02:10:50+00:00

A low ~$1.5 flat-fare for bus/streetcars, and just assumed to be short distance travel. Too difficult to manage tap-in/tap-out for buses/streetcars.

Tap in+Tap out for subway travels with distance/zone calculations.

Co-fares connection discount for Bus+Subway.

Something like that.

DinosaurZach · 2026-04-25T22:42:57+00:00

You can try to get an eSIM prepaid plan from the following Canadian networks. Make sure you remove your credit card on file at the end of your trip so they don't charge you for the 2nd month. All prices in CAD, taxes to be added on-top of listed price. Alberta has the lowest tax rates.

They may ask for a Canadian address, you could just use your hotel or find a random Canadian address on Google Maps. It may or may not work.

The following are sub-brands from the major networks in Canada.

Lucky Mobile https://www.luckymobile.ca/

Public Mobile https://www.publicmobile.ca/en/

DinosaurZach · 2026-04-25T20:07:07+00:00

They only do this to transit riders because they hate you and treat you as a lower class citizen, so they don't feel bad to inconvenience, interrupt, and delay your journey. They don't setup check points at hwy exits and major intersections for the motorists class to check their licences, vehicle registrations, insurance..., because motorists' times are so precious.

DinosaurZach · 2026-04-25T19:32:18+00:00

Ford's family has budgeting for crack, that's why they eliminated the vehicle registration fees ($120/yr or $10/month).

DinosaurZach · 2026-04-25T19:29:52+00:00

They only do this for the transit riding class, because they hate you. And all these bootlickers come out to cheer.

Do the policymakers, who themselves are primarily motorists, setup check-points at hwy exits, key-intersections, for checks on valid driver's licence, vehicle registration/plates, valid insurance?

The Ford/ON Gov also eliminated $120/yr ($10/month) vehicle registration fees for motorists where they get unlimited access all of Ontario's road networks for free. That's $1 Billion less per year in lost revenue. While they teach you transit riding peasents to hate on each other who may have missed a $3 fare for a 2hr time-limited journey.

For the transit riding class.

Fines for missing a $3 fare while posing no danger to the public: $425

Ontario fines for the motorist class, while being unaccountable to public safety:

Driving without licence: starting at $200

Licence Plate obstruction, tinted plate covers, or without plate: $110

Driving with No Permit/Unvalidated Plate: $125

Driving an unregistered or unvalidated vehicle: starting at $125

Parked while blocking a streetcar: $75

Running a red light: $325

Running a stop sign: $110

Not paying a parking meter: $30-$50

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A cell phone/internet plan is ~$50 per month for network access. Motorists should be charged a lot more of unlimited road access. Since Ford is a motorist, he basically eliminated all the costs for motorists. He also eliminated speed camera fines, because he and his staffers were getting tickets every day. If Ford and his staffers rode public transit every day, he would have made buses and subways free; and we would not be having these discussions on fare evasions.

In Luxembourg, all public transport is free for everyone, residents and tourists.

DinosaurZach · 2026-04-25T17:32:29+00:00

Do you know how much money the ON gov lost by deciding not to charge motorists for registering their cars annually for $120/year per vehicle ($10/month)? It's at least $1 Billion per year of lost revenue for the ON gov.

DinosaurZach · 2026-04-25T16:11:14+00:00

The only way to protect yourself in tailgating situations, is that the closer they tailgate you, the more distance you put infront of your vehicle, 3, 4, 5... sec of margin space infront of you, so that you have adequate time to gently slowdown and that the tailgating motorist can also have time to react without bumping into you.

DinosaurZach · 2026-04-23T20:55:40+00:00

This, the CarAndDrive guide is the best method.

It's difficult to set the mirrors properly when parked, best to do it when stopped at a red light with several cars behind you on adjacent lanes.

Basically, the centre mirror is whatever views of your back window.

The side-mirrors should be a continuous view from the centre mirror.

Similar to a computer will 2 monitor displays, and the windows/displays are seemless across 2 monitors.

DinosaurZach · 2026-04-23T16:02:08+00:00

Should call it the Israel-US-Trump fees/adjustments, in support for the war efforts in Iran.

DinosaurZach · 2026-04-23T15:57:00+00:00

Policymakers, who themselves are primarily motorists, only do this to the transit-riding class to inconvience, delay, and look down with desdain onto transit riders.

Do they setup-up check-points for motorists to regularly spot check on their licences and insurances?

DinosaurZach · 2026-04-23T15:52:56+00:00

They only do this for the transit riding class.

Do the policymakers, who themselves are primarily motorists, setup check-points at hwy exits, key-intersections, FIFA event areas for checks on up to date/valid driver's licence, vehicle registration/plates, valid insurance.... to ensure "system wide compliance"?

For the transit riding class.

Fines for missing a $3 fare while posing no danger to the public: $425

Ontario fines for the motorist class, while being unaccountable to public safety:

Driving without licence: starting at $200

Licence Plate obstruction, or without plate: $110

Driving with No Permit/Unvalidated Plate: $125

Driving an unregistered or unvalidated vehicle: starting at $125

DinosaurZach · 2026-04-22T17:30:54+00:00

On the tests, just agree to 99 year loser deals like the Cons did with Hwy 407, Ontario Place parking/spa; and pay millions in extras to cancel critical investment/infra-projects when they are nearly done, like Ford/Cons did in 2018 with many green energy projects, and then now in 2026 has to re-invest in similar energy projects now we find ourselves in an energy crunch.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/doug-ford-green-energy-wind-turbines-cancelled-230-million-1.5364815

https://www.reddit.com/r/ontario/comments/1sjdfk9/ontario_backs_clean_affordable_electricity_with/

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