Archive for category: TTC

TTC TUG    (2016.11.07)

I gave a presentation on TTC typography to a group of aging computer scientists and mathematical typesetters. Then I toured them through the subway. And they loved me

Hell freezes over    (2015.03.30)

I did paid work for the TTC on signage

Correlation    (2014.12.09)

What surprises me is I am much more bothered and offended by the way the TTC treated and treats me than the guys on the system who call me a faggot

The Spies of Wheel-Trans    (2013.07.11)

Wheel-Trans really has been spying on its passengers. I should know – I’m the one who filed the complaint about it

Joanne McFadden, a classic TTC employee who escalates arguments    (2012.12.29)

A TTC collector aided by defenders from the union seems like exactly the sort of peevish, disagreement-escalating lifer still prevalent in the system

YOR    (2012.04.23)

For journos and cabinet ministers, it doesn’t happen till it’s in print    (2011.08.12)

Newspaper journos – and a cabinet minister – didn’t find out about a six-figure job posting till it made the newspaper

Fishbowl    (2011.06.16)

The quintessential bus.

But also an embarrassing anachronism. Soon, all but two ceremonial Fishbowls will – justly – be decommissioned.

Details of TTC advertising contract    (2011.03.30)

What’s in the contract for advertising on the TTC? Everything from “bus backs” to subway-line naming rights