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Poking around the dark corners of Toronto's balanced budget

“The fault with the mayor’s logic, however, is that of 508 people the TTC hired last year (the year it increased bus service) just 222 were drivers. The TTC, by far the city’s biggest employer, now has a payroll of about 12,500 people, but transports the same number of riders as it it 20 years ago, when it had 25% fewer employees.”

(via smack416)

WiFi turns rowdy bus into roaming study hall (NY Times)

Morning routines have been like this since the fall, when school officials mounted a mobile Internet router to bus No. 92’s sheet-metal frame, enabling students to surf the Web. The students call it the Internet Bus, and what began as a high-tech experiment has had an old-fashioned - and unexpected - result. Wi-Fi access has transformed what was often a boisterous bus ride into a rolling study hall, and behavioral problems have virtually disappeared.