Funny how this global movement allows for the massive expansion of the oil/gas industry and pipelines in their own countries, but magically seeks to demonize all of Canada for wanting the same.
Ohhh......................that aint funny at all!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
That is an INSULT to the Cdn "demons"!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
And here is an article illustrating why cars will continue to be used in Canada::::
Here is an article notable as much for what it DOES NOT SAY -more than what it does tell us!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
With some comments of my own in brackets):
TTC pulls streetcars from Queen Street due to braking problems
By Kamil Karamali, Global News, November 28,
Report: a passenger bus that is parked on the side of a road: Buses have temporarily replaced streetcars on the Queen Street route as crews work to fix track problems.
The Toronto Transit Commission said it has pulled all 35 streetcars from Queen Street Wednesday because of a braking issues — and has replaced the route with as many as 90 buses.
"Initially, it was seven [streetcars], but as we continued to look at the streetcars throughout the day, the damage was found on 19 of them," TTC spokesperson, Kadeem Griffiths, said.
The TTC adds that it doesn't know what caused the problem.
(How ODD that TTC should take delivery of a bunch of Bombardier street cars and then magically star having problems with DAMAGE to the braking system???
Should we ask if it is the street car design that is WRONG?? Or has there been SLOPPY track work that is damaging the machines??)
(After all - if a driver HIT something on the road that was actually DAMAGING the machine - would driver NOT NOTICE THE THUMP??????????????)
(Shal we ask if Bombardier is SCREWING TTC yet again?? It is bad enough that Bombardier was YEARS LATE in delivering the new machines!! And WORSE YET that no sooner where the machines delivered - than TTC had to start shipping them back to get SHODDY FRAME WELDS REPAIRED!! And now we are expected NOT to be pissed and suspicious of this latest problem!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)
(That BILLION DOLLAR GRANT that Our idiot Boy Justin gave to his Quebec supporters at Bombardier DID NOT buy much good will or good work!!!!!!!!!!!!!)
Griffiths said the issue is not with the main braking system, but the supplementary braking systems on the streetcars — all roughly in the same spot.
(So multiple vehilces with exactly the same damage - indicates either a car design flaw or a track installation flaw - and since the OLD streetcars did not have such problems- there is a POWERFUL TEMPTATION to assume Bombardier SCREWED US YET AGAIN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)
TTC said it will inspect the tracks along the 501 Queen Street route, west of Roncesvalles, to try and determine what is causing the damage to the streetcars.
In the meantime, it has also increased the number of streetcars along 504 King Street and 506 Carlton so that commuters have more options in case they don't want to use the buses.
"It takes about three-ish buses to replace one streetcar, so we know it's going to be a little bit crowded especially during peak rush hour," said Griffiths.
"So we've increased the number of streetcars on parallel routes."
The TTC is asking commuters for patience as the transit agency tries to resolve the issue.
(OH GREAT!! Our LIE-beral overlordfs are making comprehensive plans to FORCE US ALL to take public transit that is ALREADY OVER LOADED and which is becoming MORE RAMSHACKLE and unreliable by the day!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)
(In related news -OC Transpo - the Ottawa public transit system despaired of getting anything useful from Bombardier- OCTranspo LEARNED from the TTC MESS -and thus they went to a French maker for their LRT cars - and of course there are now MULTIPLE HOURS LONG DELAYS as the new car doors will not close properly and the cars WILL NOT MOVE - while the doors are open!!!!!!!!!)
(TTC is watching the OCTranspo MESS with interest as Metrolinx has the intention of dealing with the same French company in future and BY-PASSING Bombardier completely!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)
(IN other Transit news- TTC is looking at ways of SERIOUSLY ALTERING and improving its PRESTO card fare payment system!! Presto was chosen by TTC over the protests of many citizens who cited PRESTO as THE LEAST RELIABLE and most costly of several options - yet TTC went ahead anyway!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)
(And now the TTC has essentially admitted the critics were RIGHT - as TTC flounders with broken Presto card readers and MILLIONS OF DOLLARS in lost fares!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)
Griffiths adds there is no time line for when the streetcars will be back on track.
(Why should we expect a swift solution to ANY GOVT ISSUE?? After all E-health IS STILL FARTING AROUND - trying to produce a useful computerized health record system and God only knows how much they have spent thus far!!!!!)
(Or we could look at the Phoenix pay system - basically conceived of during the Harper Conservative years and then designed and built by our vaunted civil service union HOGS - and then Phoenix was completed and implemented under Our idiot Boy and his loser LIE-berals -WITH OUT ANY preliminary testing and WITH OUT any back up plan if anything went wrong!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)
(Our HOGS have been screwing around with Phoenix for FOUR YEARS and still cannot fix their Frankenstein PAY MONSTER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)
(One has to ask if LIE-beral govt EVER GETS VALUE FOR MONEY!!!!!!!!!!!!!)