Early Saturday morning, a man was struck and killed at the intersection of Bloor Street West and Concord Avenue by a TTC Bus. Police say that the man was crossing Concord at an angle, and the bus hit him when it attempted to turn north onto Concord, knocking him onto the ground, where he hit his head on the curb. He died of his injuries in hospital shortly after. This incident is the third pedestrian death this month involving a TTC vehicle. There was an incident involving a bus hitting a pedestrian at Dufferin Street, and another involving a streetcar, where a pedestrian was killed after being dragged by the streetcar.
This latest incident shows the continued incompetency of TTC drivers. The TTC has done nothing about these fatalities, and they need to if they are to keep their reputation positive. They need to have better training for employees and higher standards for hiring employees. In my view, TTC drivers were never the brightest or the nicest people in the world, but they have since become even worse. The TTC must do something about this, because if these incidents continue, they will have a large public outcry against them, and that is something nobody wants to deal with.
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