Riders' pix start huge controversy for Toronto Transit
Riders' pix start huge controversy for Toronto Transit
A rider snapped a pic of a Toronto subway ticket taker asleep. Another made a video of a bus driver taking an unauthorized break . . .a huge controversy is brewing in Toronto. (The pix were with digicams, not RFFs -- sorry).
Here is a bit of it from the Toronto Star:
"Two weeks after commuters began aiming cameras at TTC booths, its management and union have launched separate fights to restore the system's reputation and dial back the angry rhetoric between riders and transit workers.
While defiant union head Bob Kinnear lashed out at the public and the media for unfairly portraying front-line transit workers as lazy and rude, TTC chief general manager Gary Webster took aim inside the organization.
"I still care. I'm still proud of the TTC, but the kind of things we're talking about have to stop," Webster told about 900 transit supervisors summoned to three meetings Tuesday . . . "We've allowed ourselves to shift to an environment that is unacceptable. All of us have to accept responsibility for allowing this to happen, me included."
Webster said he became fed up on the weekend after waking up to another round of negative headlines. That prompted him to issue a memo to the TTC's 12,000 employees warning that some of their behaviour is unacceptable.
The memo capped two weeks of published photos and videos showing transit staff sleeping on the job and taking unauthorized breaks."
BTW: The transit rules prohibit taking pix for commercial purposes without permission but news photogs have reported no hassles.
Link:
http://www.thestar.com/printarticle/763055
