I am so pissed off right now; I'll tell you I'm fuckin livid. It's Thursday night, and we have just gotten dumped on with snow, sleet and freezing rain, and my trip home has been the fuckin worst.

I live out in the west end of Toronto and after taking the subway halfway across the city I emerge and then have to take a street car down to my home. Now I have lived here almost a year now, and I'll tell you this has got to be the worst fucking station to get a street car at in the entire metro area. Every day I come home and there are about a hundred people waiting to catch the street car. It always happens, every single fuckin day, yet there always seems to be plenty of 505 streetcars at the station. The one I get, and the one most people in the city take, the 504 is always late and packed.

And of course tonight was no exception, I mean the weather is fucked right, sure everyone on the planet knew this was coming, but yet no one in the city is prepared. No plows are out clearing the roads and the streetcars are moving as slow as ever.

So I get out of the station and I know it's going to be bad, there are already probably a hundred people waiting for the street car. One finally shows up after about 10 minutes. Now I choose to not get on this one, hoping that as usual there will be another directly behind it. This always happens, for some reason the drivers of these things don't seem to care about SPACING them out so that the flow of people is smoother. I mean every fuckin driver who comes up to the station jumps out as soon as the car gets there, and then doesn't get back in until it's packed to the tits with people. I mean packed, people are like hanging off railings. Now if there was one coming up directly behind wouldn't it benefit the driver to tell everyone that? You know so that not everyone would pile into this one street car. Well they don't, I have yet to see one of these fucking assholes provide any information to the masses. And I mean am I the only one who gets pissed at that? I mean it's still a fucking service I pay for, how about some fucking customer service.

So that street car leaves, now I'm one of the only people waiting for the next one. But fuck me, if it isn't 20 minutes before the next one shows up. Give me a fucking break. It's rush hour you fucking idiots, there are now hundreds of people standing around waiting to get home. I've had enough, so when the next street car comes along, of course I fight my way on. Pushing and pulling and doing everything that everyone else is doing. And it's bullshit, I mean you can't blame the people here, they just want to get home. It's the fucking shitty service we get and we are forced to deal with it, and fight for ourselves. And of course, Joe asshole streetcar driver is doing nothing, nothing at all.

So then, as we pull out, 3, THREE, THREE more streetcars pull in. Give me a fucking break. Everyone in the place piled onto this one. I mean how are we supposed to know how long before another one comes along. I mean I fuckin waited; I tried to do the right thing and still got fucked. How fuckin hard is it to install a system to let people know that another car is coming. FUCK, have the drivers tell the people, they don't do shit anyway. Fuck, hire two homeless people and give them walkie talkies. Put one at the station and another one 6 blocks away, at least that way we would have some sort of idea, we would be able to make an educated decision as to whether or not to get on the fuckin packed street car. I mean give me a fuckin break.

And if that isn't enough? On the way down my street two cars got into an accident, right fuckin in front of us. Now not a big deal for me, I can just walk from here but what about everyone else? What about the now FOUR streetcars stuck waiting for this accident to be moved. What about all the people sitting on King Street waiting to catch this streetcar as it goes downtown? They are fucked. And not because of the accident but because the streetcars are not spaced out properly. Because the fucking TTC doesn't track and pay attention to this stuff. They should be constantly looking at their systems and improving. I mean Jesus Christ they just had a fuckin fare hike. You want more money from me, but you don't keep me happy as a consumer? As your customer? Fuck you TTC, fuck you.

I've fuckin had it, it's bullshit. I can't take it anymore. And I'm going to start taking it out on the drivers. If they are the only people from this corporation that I get to interact with, they're going to fuckin hear my complaints. This is bullshit people, I urge all of you out there to do the same. They cannot continue to provide this horrible service and have us sit and take it. Stand up, say something , anything.

Just as a note to all my readers, I've put this up on the site but also sent it to the TTC, and to the Toronto Star and the Toronto Sun.

DOWNS

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