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I doubt you can fix this problem, but perhaps you can help fix my seething frustration with at least three years' worth of late night suspension of subway service north of Eglinton on the Yonge line. Signs now say work will be completed on "tunnel maintenance" in "late 2013". Problem is, the signs have been amended frequently to add a year at a time . Yes, there is shuttle service provided. That means tired shift workers or students or people who might just think it shuld be possible to avoid turning into a pumpkin if they stay at the ball past midnight, have to get off the train, schlep down hallways to the bus platforms, wait, board a bus that is often crowded. Then, that same bus has to lumber into each subway station on the trip N., making the homeward journey much longer. And many patrons must then board another bus or subway to finish their trip. What's going on? We're all familiar with jobs taking longer than anticipated, but YEARS longer? What does "tunnel maintenance" mean: armies of concentrated workers descending to get as much done from the instant the trains stop running, or a single guy with a mop and a pail and some crack filler who shows up for a shift on Thursdays? There's been no info available. When I ask TTC staff, they tell me they don't know any more than I do.

I begin to suspect the TTC figures it is just on to a good thing, as there seems not to have been muc protest or resistance, and now it becomes just the way things are. Cost saving? Then at least be honest and say this is an ongoing plan.

I kept looking at the signs saying "late 2012" thinking, "okay, at least the nonsense is finally coming to a close". Then the changes were quietly made to read "late 2013".

Bizarre. Unsatisfactory. An awful lot of people do live N. of Eglinton.

Many thanks for anything you can find out. You provide a great service. Patricia Casey