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Toronto transit facing backlash for not extending service after World Series Game 7 · DEEP INSIGHT

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  Speaker 1: Toronto Public transit services are anticipating complaints today at a
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  Speaker 1: City Hall meeting, thousands of baseball fans were stranded after
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  Speaker 1: Game seven and that was so frustrating for so many.
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  Speaker 1: Angie Seth is at Toronto City Hall ahead of this
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  Speaker 1: meeting today. Angie, in case, everyone was just their head
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  Speaker 1: was in the games so much and you know, absorbing
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  Speaker 1: and healing from the loss, maybe missed the stories about
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  Speaker 1: the chaos.
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  Speaker 2: What happened.
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  Speaker 3: Well, first of all, hats off to the Jase right,
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  Speaker 3: an incredible series. But yeah, you're looking at forty thousand
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  Speaker 3: fans that were there at Rogers Stadium, you know, trying
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  Speaker 3: to get home now disappointed. And then of course all
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  Speaker 3: the people that were on the street, the traffic concetera,
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  Speaker 3: a number of events happening, you know, on Saturday night as well,
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  Speaker 3: and instead what happened was what they didn't expect. They
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  Speaker 3: were expecting there was going to be more service, extended service,
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  Speaker 3: probably similar to what we saw when Taylor Swift was
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  Speaker 3: here for the Airas tour, but instead, well it was
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  Speaker 3: anything but that.
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  Speaker 2: Take a look at the reaction, you.
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  Speaker 1: Know, for that look, it's not one o'clock and that's
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  Speaker 1: a Lot one, that's pull both.
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  Speaker 4: He then told us there's more trains on it. We
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  Speaker 4: lined up for twenty minutes.
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  Speaker 3: We stood it.
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  Speaker 4: Paul Doug, Paul Doug, get bot do something yet one night? Unbelievable.
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  Speaker 4: Are you the only guys who then watching the ex
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  Speaker 4: rames tonight, like seriously.
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  Speaker 3: You feel for that security officer there, you know, not
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  Speaker 3: really being able to answer those questions. But a lot
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  Speaker 3: of those fans really really you know, upset and concern.
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  Speaker 3: And the TDC, or as you should say, rather the
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  Speaker 3: City of Toronto put this tweet out, you know, before
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  Speaker 3: the game here is saying reminder, we know the game
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  Speaker 3: is running late, but Transit won't. The final go train
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  Speaker 3: leaves Union Station soon and the last TTC train at
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  Speaker 3: around a one thirty am check schedules at gotransit dot
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  Speaker 3: com and TDC dot ca A that certainly didn't sit
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  Speaker 3: well with transit riders one, you know, many of them.
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  Speaker 3: Taking to Reddit, one individual describes his trip home from
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  Speaker 3: down Town to Brampton, saying it took him over three
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  Speaker 3: hours to get home. Hee was stuck on the Gardner
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  Speaker 3: in one of those TGC buses forever, he says. Now
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  Speaker 3: metrolinks responding to the situation as well. We know that
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  Speaker 3: there was track work that was supposed to happen this
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  Speaker 3: weekend they delayed, but they put out this statement saying,
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  Speaker 3: due to track ownership and operational considerations, we cannot operate
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  Speaker 3: overnight or add additional trains past service time. We sincerely
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  Speaker 3: thank our customers for their patients throughout the playoff series,
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  Speaker 3: as we have worked to support everyone traveling to and
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  Speaker 3: from the games. Now. Mandi Blai, CEO of the TGC,
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  Speaker 3: also sort of putting out a statement as well, you know,
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  Speaker 3: in response to all of this, saying that they did
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  Speaker 3: extend subway service hours. They did deploy thirty or more
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  Speaker 3: buses that did run that would run into extra innings,
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  Speaker 3: that was the plan. Instead, things ended at around twelve fifteen,
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  Speaker 3: so ample time for people to be able to get
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  Speaker 3: in and out, and they did say He also does
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  Speaker 3: say that dozens of trains were running until service end,
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  Speaker 3: about ninety minutes after the game ended, of course, saying
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  Speaker 3: that should give enough people ample time to get themselves home. Heather,
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  Speaker 3: But clearly though, there was a lot of chaos and
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  Speaker 3: a lot of frustration on the street and on if
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  Speaker 3: you could get on a bus or a train.
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  Speaker 2: Certainly they were jam packed.
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  Speaker 1: So TTC questions, you said you talked about Metro Links,
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  Speaker 1: that is the go train service.
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  Speaker 2: That was also a big problem.
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  Speaker 1: The meeting that you're there to cover today, Edgie is
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  Speaker 1: not because of the Game seven situation, but that's expected
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  Speaker 1: to be a big focal point now.
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  Speaker 2: So what's likely to happen there.
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  Speaker 3: Well, we know that the mayor, Livia Chow is going
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  Speaker 3: to be here as well as the TCC chair Jamal Mayers,
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  Speaker 3: who's actually in a few minutes now, is going to
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  Speaker 3: give a quick press conference. The media is here to
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  Speaker 3: cover that as Heather, so we'll have that for you.
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  Speaker 3: But that is going to be on the agenda. What
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  Speaker 3: is the plan moving forward? And City councilor Torona City
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  Speaker 3: Council Josh Mattlow raising the concern saying we've got the
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  Speaker 3: World Cup happening next year, so there needs to be
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  Speaker 3: plans put in place. Take a listen to him.
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  Speaker 4: If we don't see the TDC and Metrolinks get their
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  Speaker 4: act together with communications and service standards, it's going to
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  Speaker 4: be embarrassing internationally. So it's time for them to focus
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  Speaker 4: on recognizing that we are a big global city that
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  Speaker 4: needs to act like one.
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  Speaker 3: And so that's not just a matter of the World Cup, Heather,
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  Speaker 3: but other events that happen in the city on the
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  Speaker 3: regular basis. We know that there's two major marathons that
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  Speaker 3: happen in the city every year, one in October and
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  Speaker 3: one in May. And the one that just happened in
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  Speaker 3: October they had upwards of thirty thousand runners. One of
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  Speaker 3: the big criticisms was can we have TTC and Go
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  Speaker 3: Transit operate earlier so runners can get to their race
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  Speaker 3: times to get to the start line via transit rather
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  Speaker 3: than having to drive. And we know those trains don't
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  Speaker 3: operate I believe before eight o'clock, depending on.
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  Speaker 2: Where you are.
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  Speaker 3: So I think this is going to be a bigger
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  Speaker 3: picture meeting as well. How do we prepare for big
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  Speaker 3: events of course like the World Cup and other events
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  Speaker 3: that happened in the city. And as you heard, there
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  Speaker 3: sort of step up our transit plans on a global stage.
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  Speaker 3: So that meeting happening at ten o'clock, we'll be hearing
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  Speaker 3: from the TTC chair Jamal Myers in just a few minutes, Heather,
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  Speaker 3: and we'll the latest updates on that.
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  Speaker 1: Sounds good, could get fiery maybe at that meeting, Angie.
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  Speaker 3: Very interesting, it could people be certainly giving their comments.
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  Speaker 1: Based on those comments that we captured on video there.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you, Angie.
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  Speaker 2: Angie Seth from Toronto this morning,