Michael's latest email to GO Transit and elected MPPs and Ministers:
 7:29 AM (1 hour ago) | | |||
It has been a week since I last heard from your office. I would like to know if there is any progress in the investigation. If it is any help, I note that last week I observed, among others scattered on the platforms and property, smokers in front of the only large non-smoking sign on the GO Station property, four days out of five. This took no effort on my part - they were where they can usually be found at 6:10.
On Friday last I took these photos (attached) to document that the no smoking on GO station properety policy that GO transit has in place, is manifestly not enforced.
Yesterday, Monday, a gentleman was smoking right by the other side of the doors to the station. When I asked him to please desist he replied that there were no signs, so he had no way of knowing if it was legal to smoke or not. This is a quite reasonable response.
I ask again - where are the signs? Where is the enforcement? Where is anything that would amount to evidence to a detached and reasonable observer that GO transit takes its no smoking policy as anything but lip service?
I look forward to a reply, soonest.
Yesterday at 7:15 am I saw a smoker receiving a ticket right where this photo was taken. Not sure if the ticket was for smoking or something else.
ReplyDeleteCan you provide more information. Who issued the ticket? Was the person wearing a uniform? Did you happen to notice a specific logo?
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Relevant?
ReplyDeletehttp://www.thestar.com/news/article/1162705--town-of-georgina-passes-bylaw-to-force-smokers-to-butt-out-on-beaches-parks-and-trails
They were wearing a uniform and a yellow vest with "SECURITY" in large letters on the back of the vest. A person simiarly dressed was there in the same area at 6 pm but I didn't see any tickets handed out. Didn't see them today, I was going to take a photo yesterday but my phone didn't have enough battery.
ReplyDeleteThanks Anon. Appreciate it.
ReplyDeleteStill no reply. I get the feeling that they don't know what to do with me. If they send more boierplate I'll just keep asking... I have a fond image of someone quivering under a table, but that most certainly is overstating my effect...
ReplyDeleteHey - photography is cheap - especially in this day of digital storage. They keep sending smokers, I'll keep taking pics and sending e-mails. The bus driver today commented that tere seem to be as many smokers as ever.
I may not be able to get the GO people to live up to their stated policies, or get buttsuckers to respect the law or the rest of us non-buttsucking folk, but if I can't get satisfaction from GO, I can still get self respect by active resistance. Smoke and get your candid snaps posted...
l swear, they're cockroaches.
ReplyDeleteI believe I saw yesterday go police giving out tickets to what appeared to be smokers. I walked by 745am.
ReplyDeleteIt would appear these enforcement officers don't work before 7 (I think in one of Michael's emails he mentions GO told him this).
ReplyDeleteInteresting, isn't it? No real security measures in place for passengers prior to 7am?
Shouldn't security coincide with the day's start of service?!
Oh don't be silly CJ, that would make sense.
ReplyDeleteYou can't use logic to justify the mysteries of Go transit.
Your logic is illogical.
ReplyDeleteI would think that more security would be needed at the beginning and the end of service, opposed to the peak rush hours.
ReplyDeleteBut, I can also see where they would ignore the start and end because they assume more fines could be given out when there are more passengers, and therefore more law-breakers.
And in the end, I see no solution to this problem. It has been going on for so long, that more and more people are jumping onto the "Smoke Anywhere" bandwagon.
At Bramalea station I have been told by the GOstapo that it is permissible to smoke “by the bike racks” or “in the parking lots”. For those who have never been to Bramalea station, the “bike racks” are but 15 feet away from one of these large 18” by 18” NO SMOKING signs attached to a fence facing the north parking lot. Whenever I smoke there, I muse to myself that it’s odd that they would put a sign THERE of all places, while designating an acceptable smoking area less than spitting distance away.
ReplyDeleteBad Matt!!! We can't say GOstapo anymore!!! :-)
ReplyDeleteI guess they don't need enforcement officers before 7:00 a.m. because NO ONE boards the train before then **rolls eyes**
By that logic there shouldn't be ticket checkers before 7am either but they sure love the 5:53 am train out of Whitby!
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