Happy Coincidence

This morning, I woke up, checked the paper and discovered that Toronto's commuters (from which I am happily excluded) got a nasty surprise today: the TTC has gone on a surprise strike they are calling a wildcat due to its lack of legality. Crowds of people were huddled in bus and streetcar stops making phone calls to try and arrange a ride. Taxis were few and far between--it would be a bad morning for a cabbie to sleep in from a financial standpoint! Colleagues of mine missed flights, and cancelled meetings--surely a common occurence all over the city. The strike has come about because drivers are protesting their lack of security among other things on a list of items to be renegotiated wrt their contracts. Last week, no one enforced TTC fares to protest the security issue.
Most Torontonians still paid--which, in a day when all you hear on the news is the next story about who got shot and how the killer got away--is a welcome bit of information. "Toronto the Good" is still in existence.

The title of this post is Happy Coincidence because although transit is out for an undisclosed amount of time, today also happens to be the beginning of Toronto's bike week. Bike Week started in 1988 to get commuters out of their cars and onto the more environmentally friendly mode of transit, cycling. There is nothing more aggravating than sitting in traffic with thousands of cars with only one occupant. It would be nice to put all of those people on bikes...or in streetcars.