Even among the throng of commuters in Union Station it’s tough to miss GO Transit’s safety enforcement officers Their Kevlar vests, handcuffs, batons — and more recently, even their bicycles — are visible trackside on sleepy workday mornings and as a sobering safety reminder in the aftermath of late-night sporting events and concerts. Rule benders and…
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Noooooo C.J. Did you finally fold and sell out????????
What's with the ads?!!!!
What?
Ohhhhhh.... no. In order to republish the Star story to my site, I had to commit to show their ads. You'll survive. LOL
As a GO commuter on the Kitchener line I have yet to even see any of the 'Mounted Force'. That's fine if they're glorified tour guides and assist women with massive strollers boarding the train, who aren't using the accessibility coach (as illustrated in Saturday's edition 23Aug2014 of The Star GT3. I think they'd be more useful asking people to learn to park without taking up 1 1/2 parking spaces, not parking in the Fire Zones of Kiss n Ride and securing the GO lots from crime. My car has been vandalized twice and a fellow commuter had her van stollen. Let's beef up the real security issues.
@2:33 anon
I agree I've only seem GO transit officers at either union station or in the bigger cities; never anywhere far west!!
If you want to stay ahead of the fare inspectors, just get some radios (or police scanners), set it to their channel, and speak some gibberish that will divert their attention.
The other day I missed my train by 2 minutes because I was buying a ticket. I rode both ways without seeing an inspector. It makes me wonder if this happens again whether I'll skip the ticket and take my chances...there really should be a way to buy the ticket on the train.
You can't speak over the frequesncy they are using. It's encrypted packet radio. Any gibberish or uncoded communication gets filtered out by the communications software and you can't hear them either except for squeaks, squawks and whistles.
Noted for the record: no mention of smoking fines.
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