Ralph writes:
I was walking by Queen station and there were 5-6 ambulances at Yonge and Queen. I wanted to know what’s going on. There were no references except this.
The people have a right to know that someone tried to kill themselves by jumping in the subway. The media shouldn’t censor themselves. The only thing I can think of that people will get the idea to start jumping in the subway, and if that’s the case then maybe we have a bigger problem and shouldn’t hide the facts.
I got messed up on my way home last night by this too - all of the trains south of Bloor were stopped for an hour or so, and there were hundreds of people inside the King station asking the T.T.C. what was wrong. Their answer? “We can’t say.”
I can understand that you don’t want the media jumping all over suicide, but we are paying to ride the T.T.C. And when I finally got on the train at College station, I had to pay again even though I explained to the booth operator that my transfer from the streetcar should still be usable.
And a side note: Robin and I were going home once a few weeks ago, and there was a delay from a “track-level personal injury” that stopped the trains for 20 minutes, not a full hour.