Commuters GO Mad at Rush Hour Chaos

GO Transit

If you hadn’t heard it on the news already, there was mass crowding and chaos at Union Station as Toronto Police and GO officials faced the consequences of a nasty pedestrian fatality near Eglinton station earlier today.

Trains beginning at around 4pm were delayed or canceled outright just as rush hour passengers poured into Union Station only to face red and yellow text across the departure screens. Many sighed and cursed as they knew they were in for long delays, and because this wasn’t a first-time occurrence for many. In fact, it happens all too often both on GO Transit’s lines and the TTC’s subway tunnels. Why are we so acclimatized to this kind of thing happening that it barely even makes front page news in the papers?

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September 17, 2007 | Filed Under Uncategorized