How to attract tourism...?
Jun. 29th, 2008 01:15 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lordshipmayhemSo this is one of the busiest weekends for tourism in Toronto: the wrap-up to Gay Pride Week, the Gay Pride Parade. It's been a week when Toronto wants to look its best, to hopefully bring those tourists (and tourist dollar$) back not just for next year, but for other occasions during the intervening 12 months. We have a million tourists in the city right now, hopefully having a wonderful time.
And what happens? A chunk of concrete falls from the roof of a stretch of the Yonge/University/Spadina line, closes part of the subway line feeding the parade route, necessitating "emergency repairs" (to use the cute phrase used by the Toronto Transit Commission, or TTC) and forcing riders to rely on overworked, over-capacity shuttle buses between the two affected stations. It also slows the trains on the rest of the line down to a crawl. All of this at a time when we're recommending to those million or so tourists that they use public transit.
Yes, everyone, come to Toronto. Marvel at our quaint, ancient, charmingly decrepit subway system. Bring a hard hat and a sturdy pair of steel-toed work boots. *sigh*
And what happens? A chunk of concrete falls from the roof of a stretch of the Yonge/University/Spadina line, closes part of the subway line feeding the parade route, necessitating "emergency repairs" (to use the cute phrase used by the Toronto Transit Commission, or TTC) and forcing riders to rely on overworked, over-capacity shuttle buses between the two affected stations. It also slows the trains on the rest of the line down to a crawl. All of this at a time when we're recommending to those million or so tourists that they use public transit.
Yes, everyone, come to Toronto. Marvel at our quaint, ancient, charmingly decrepit subway system. Bring a hard hat and a sturdy pair of steel-toed work boots. *sigh*