Diversions for construction and repairs are playing havoc for riders
One evening last week I left the office for what I thought would be an uneventful trip home on public transit. Normally it’s a simple if leisurely ride involving one streetcar and one bus. This ride would be something different.
Inevitably, that means delays. Subway lines are closed, streetcars and buses diverted from their usual paths. This year the TTC is facing an “unprecedented” number of diversions. “Currently 48 bus routes and five streetcar routes are impacted by construction – road works, city infrastructure, TTC rail replacement, Metrolinx construction,” says TTC spokesman Stuart Green .I left the office around 7. It was a chilly, blustery early fall evening.
It did. But a few blocks later, with no announcement at all, at least that I heard, it took a left turn and headed south on Bathurst Street toward the waterfront. I was supposed to be proceeding west, not south. I sat there bewildered. Other riders started looking up from their phones, obviously wondering what on earth was happening.
The driver told us another streetcar would be arriving shortly. We got off again. A 511 streetcar soon rolled up and stopped. We stepped off the curb and made to hop on. The doors didn’t open. The driver got out to inform us, “This isn’t a stop. The stop is over there.” She pointed to a spot just around the corner.
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