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TTC Bus Driver Charged

Posted By: Katie Franzios · 8/2/2012 2:21:00 PM

A 55 year old TTC bus driver has been charged with  failing to stop at a red light and careless driving, allegedly being behind the wheel of a bus which collided with a car at Peter St. and Richmond St. on July 22nd.

The bus continued on and struck a cab and then a building.

Cst. Tony Vella of Toronto Police says all drivers and passengers on the bus weren't seriously injured.

He'll appear in court in September.

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  1. Richard Collins posted on 08/02/2012 03:44 PM
    Throw the book at him!
  2. proton posted on 08/02/2012 03:59 PM
    his union will manage to get him full pay, pay any fines, and who knows what else
  3. EdwardM_8180 posted on 08/02/2012 05:39 PM
    Proton

    No he is going to stop driving buses and become a station collector till he retires. Now be one of those that he struck and see the nightmare of dealing with the TTC insurance. This discussion reminds me the one I had with a friend we immigrated with from Africa, this society is actually not very different from Africa only that the African governments do not manipulate information, and are very poor into using the press. For go back and see what happened in the G20 in Toronto, did the Police have a difference with what Uganda Police does? The answer is yes for the Uganda Police does not pretend to be accountable yet use the tax payer’s money when no one will ever be held responsible. The Uganda Police does not have SIU so it does not waste any ones money, The Toronto Police has SIU which is so expensive to tax payer yet it never finds any officer wrong and never charges any. But I swear to you, stand in a street in Toronto and question an officer’s decision and your face will be broken very fast and no one will talk.

    And by the way this is very laughable, immigrants like ourselves fit in very well in this city for we have been terrorized by Police all our lives so we don’t sue, we do not go to SIU, it is Canadians that believe that these organizations are created to bolster democracy. No they are created to suck money out of you, and to create that belief that democracy actually exists. Pray tell me why do we have SIU in this city? Why? And it goes as far as the reporters that try to ask these questions getting so attacked and issues simply die off. Now this guy is right and he is going to work to retirement. Did you know that as much as many jurisdictions in North America test for drugs to public bus/train drivers you cannot do it in Toronto? Yea I know a TTC bus driver was arrested with a brandy bottle driving on Lawrence, I think Lawrence and Jane, just how many are actually drunk? Was this driver sober? Wow wow never ask that question for you will never know, you only get those details when EM was driving. Nope you cannot ask that for that is “being anti our bus/train drivers” Now with that, walk the path in Police Officers you will be very surprised at what happens out there that you never dare talk about publicly.

    How do you stop it? Stop getting one person to buy and own all Radio and TV stations, the moment you see Astrol owning all radio talk shows, you might as well walk to Kigali and buy a home, for reporters worry about their income than democratic principles. Secondly we lost investigative reporting the moment we started a term embedded reporters. And if you look closely it is Toronto Star that gets attacked always for it does the investigative reporting. There is so much hollow talk and in the process we white wash everything. A public transportation this large must set a standard and a public standard on all its drivers, if Canada Post does, if Ambulance drivers do, why not TTC? It is a great lesson to those of us from Africa that immigrated into these societies for we long enough have learnt that democracy moves with big mouth. Be dictatorial but sell it with a huge smile on a face.

    Follow the crime in black kids and see the resistance we black parents have when we try to raise solutions to crime of these kids. For when you stop crime you are becoming anti system. Did you know for example that by Jerry Agar’s stand, Gang Bangers are old and we need to build them jails and hand them long term sentences, but when John Torry suggests that we work with the Board of trade and find them jobs, then we can never find them jobs for they are 6 to 9 year olds? So is Jerry Agar building jails for 6 to 9 year olds?

    No he uses age only to stop black kids from getting employment and uses the age to jail them, so they have no win situation any ways.

    EM
    Toronto
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