Why riding the subway sucks (sometimes) - Part 2

June 12, 2007 - Is it just me or has the subway been super slow and super unreliable lately? The other day, it took me almost half an hour to go from Eglinton to College - which normally takes about 12 minutes. What annoyed me the most was the train stopped just outside Eglinton Station - you could actually see it standing on the platform. Why couldn't the train just stop at the station to at least let people on?

Then today, Bernard and I were on our way to Union to catch our 5:20 GO train. We left Jenny's convocation at 4:50ish (yay!), got to Queen's Park Station at 5 and what was supposed to be a 6 minute subway ride to Union turned into more than 20 minutes!! The reason: some sort of signal problem (again!). What pissed us off the most was we stopped just outside Union Station for like 5 minutes - when the train could've easily pulled into the station to drop people off! Ultimately we missed our train home and had to wait for another 40 minutes for the next one.

As much as I support transit, sometimes riding the TTC just really gets to me - there needs to be a better accountability mechanism in place - who's the blame for subway delays? and what can be done? and why can't they just pull the train into a station and wait for the signal to change there?