TTC announces Personal Car initiative for April Fool’s Day
Posted April 1, 2013 6:55 am.
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No time to clip your nails at home? Too hungry to wait to eat dinner in a restaurant or in your kitchen? Well, the TTC has launched a new service just for you.
On Monday, Brad Ross, executive director of corporate communications at the TTC, and the commission’s chief customer officer, Chris Upfold, announced a move, albeit a temporary one, that will let subway riders feel a little more at home on the Red Rocket.
“On any one of our trains, there’ll be a single car that people can think of as their personal space,” Upfold announced in a YouTube video on Monday, “and on that car they can do anything they want to and completely ignore all the people around them. It’s their personal space. It’s their personal car.”
Usually frowned-upon activities, including nail clipping and other forms of personal grooming, eating, taking up seats with massive bags and stretched out legs and cranking music on headphones so loud everyone in the near vicinity can hear, get the green light on the Personal Car.
“There’s no point in having the Personal Car if you can’t do your personal grooming in public,” Upfold said.
The Personal Car service is only in effect for one day — until noon on April 1. So save that nail clipping and mascara application for the busy morning commute.
The TTC also plans to test another initiative called the Personal Platform that will work in tandem with the Personal Car.
“That’s so our customers don’t have to wait for each other to get on and off the train, they can just go ahead and do it at exactly the same time,” Upfold explained.
Ross ended the video with another message from the commission.
“From all of us at the Toronto Transit Commission, please have a very happy April Fool’s Day.”
[View the story “What do other TTC riders do that drive you nuts?” on Storify]
What do other TTC riders do that drive you nuts?
The TTC launched an online spoof video for April Fool’s Day addressing some annoying (and gross) behaviour by some of its riders.
Storified by CityNews.ca· Mon, Apr 01 2013 05:42:50
