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RSS FeedsShawn Micallef: Is Queens Quay tunnel Toronto´s Bermuda Triangle?
(The Star Fashion & Style)

 
 

23 march 2018 17:15:15

 
Shawn Micallef: Is Queens Quay tunnel Toronto´s Bermuda Triangle?
(The Star Fashion & Style)
 


Step aside Bermuda Triangle, Toronto would like to introduce the world to the Queens Quay streetcar tunnel. It’s a void that magnetically attracts automobiles, sucking them into the subterranean depths of the city. Drivers, ever attentive and alert at the helm of their cars, seem to be powerless and disappear with alarming frequency into it. Once down in the tunnel the cars become stuck like giant lobsters in a cage, unable to reverse out. Police report one man still had his foot on the accelerator when they found him in his car.Alas, if only supernatural forces could be blamed. It’s all made for a perfect internet meme that shows the foibles of the idiotic, or drunken human condition.According to Brad Ross, the TTC’s director of corporate and customer communications, about 25 cars have made their way into the tunnel since 2014 “despite bollards, signs, rumble strips, flashing lights and raised track.” Each time this happens the TTC has to extract the car from the tunnel, which means the streetcars don’t run, which further means thousands of people can’t get to where they’re going. As this often happens overnight, morning rush hours are compromised.The tunnel is not disguised in any way, and the speed limit on Queens Quay is 40 km/h, so, theoretically, drivers are going slow enough to notice the world around them. Let’s look again at the measures warning drivers not to go into the tunnel. There are bollards (a.k.a. posts), signs (things we were taught to obey in driver’s ed), rumble strips (actual bumps in the road that shake the car), flashing lights (casinos use them to get our attention for a reason), and a raised train track (around for more than a century and a half and something all children are told to beware of.)None of this stopped drivers from entering the tunnel. The TTC says they’re going to install a gate now. If I were a gambling person I wouldn’t put money on the gate remainin ...


 
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