another ttc rant

This is not about TTC operators using their phones and mp3 players while driving their vehicles. It's probably not even about any part of the unionized workforce. It's a peeve about mispronunciation.

Since the TTC automated subway-station announcements (only after repeated legal cases forced it to do so) it has irritated me that the Summerhill Station is announced distinctly as Summer Hill. Maybe it takes someone from "the 905" to know the difference between Thornhill and Richmond Hill and how they are spoken. Apparently the lady who made the recordings and the manager who approved them doesn't.

That peeve was rendered insignificant yesterday when I heard transit control inform riders "the delay we were experiencing on the Yonge/University/Spadeena Line..." It didn't sound like a computer synthesized voice and we know the TTC is eons away from automating this type of communication. Did the announcer think he was being funny? If so, i didn't laugh.