Man With a Movie Camera

One man's journey through a BFA in Film program

Wednesday, November 02, 2005

Transit Trouble?



So this is my score card thus far.

I intended to get quite a few more, I had plans to get College, Osgoode, St. Patrick, Spadina and St. George this evening. But there was some kind of catastrophy.

I got on at Wellesley to head for Staples between Osgoode and St. Patrick, made it to Queen station (which *sigh* I already have), when the train stopped. "Track level injury at Ossington" was the cause.

But this deeply concerned me for a few reasons. One being that a 'track level injury' undoubtedly means someone committed suicide, throwing themself on the tracks. This is unfortuneately not an unncommon occurance. This is the second time in two months that I've been in the system when this kind of warning has come over the PA. Naturally, people get a little tense and a little down when they hear this announcement.

But, for those that know the Toronto Subway, I was at Queen Station on the Younge Line. Ossington is on the Bloor Line. The lines don't interconnect (anymore). Normally, when there is something of this nature service is disrupted on the line where the incident occurs. Last time, I was on the same line as the incident, and had to wait about 15 minutes for a train. But the TTC shut down the entire system. We were all told to leave the train and find a bus or streetcar.

So something very bad happened at Ossington, but as per the TTC tight lipped policy, I doubt anyone will ever hear about it.

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