TTC restricting tokens give me a break

Well everyone don;t expect to go to the store and pick up 10 tokens if your a TTC user chancers are there wont be any left , as I found out this morning.

I went to my local 7/11 to pick up some tokens only to find out that they were out! So I had to use cash fare instead which is quite annoying.

As I was driving I heard on the radio that TTC collectors are now only allowed to sell 5 tokens per customer as opposed to 10 as was said last week.

Who else thinks this is ridiculous?

This is all in an effort to prevent people from hoarding tokens after hearing of a potential fare increase . Please TTC give us a break ! Torontonians who rely on the TTC daily should not have to pay the price because they are facing a budget crisis or whatever it is they are dealing with and putting the brunt of it on the riders. Go Tranist announced this morning it was putting a freeze on fare hikes because ridership is down , well who's to say that wont happen with the TTC? On Facebook an event called Rider Strike Day is supposed to take place this friday where people will refuse to take the TTC . What do you think? My main concern is the stupid restriction on Token purchasing ....

What else do you expect from the TTC , we have no choice it seems as we rely on it as one of our main sources of transportation so we somewhat accept these fare hikes and restrictions because we need to use it. I think its unfair....and I know many torontonians feel the same way. It's time for the city council to get involved (even though they probably won't) to help put a stop to this nonsense...

Police to knock on doors

If you live in the neighbourhood where Mariam dissapeared over the next 2 weeks expect a knock on your door from police . Police will be going to approx 6,000 homes over the next 2/3 weeks asking people about Mariam and asking to look inside your home for a quick check to make sure you dont have anything to do with the case.

This is another attempt by police to find the missing now 18 year old who has not been seen or heard from since September 14th 2009 . This was just after a couple of days after starting her new school Forest Hill Collegiate Institute.

Again I ask the question? Where are you Mariam? You have been missing for almost 2 months!

What has happened to you? Why was the last thing found belonging to you , your backpack ?Also why was it not opened up until almost 2 weeks after it was first found?

I do not know Mariam or her family or friends. I am a concerned citizen and young adult the same age as Mariam who sympathizes with what her family is going through. I know the area pretty well having a good friend who lives in that area as well as it being a favourite area of mine to walk around in. I am hoping to use this blog to get the message of this missing teen out there and to enlist the support of other bloggers to do the same .

Again I will say as others are saying : SOMEONE KNOWS WHERE SHE IS AND WHAT HAPPENED TO HER! People do not just vanish without a trace . We know she has no money and no passport but she still could have possibly left the country through other means. I am sure police are looking into this. I continue to pray every night and day that we will hear she has been found safe. I pray this will not end in another tragedy like Tori Stafford.

MARIAM PLEASE PLEASE CALL THE POLICE IF YOU SEE THIS , PLEASE LET SOMEONE KNOW YOU ARE ALIVE AND WELL !!!! YOU WILL NOT BE IN TROUBLE , A POLICE FRIEND OF MINE HAS POSTED THE SAME MESSAGE ON FACEBOOK AS WELL.

THERE ARE PEOPLE WHO WILL HELP YOU DONT BE AFRAID !

I want to encourage people to speak to the police when they knock on your door , please help them as much as you can, put yourself in her family's position . Imagine if it was one of your own who has been missing for almost 2 months without a trace, wouldn't you want them home? Wouldn't you want people to help find him/her? Please do not be afraid to talk to the police , they appreciate all the support from the public ,as any new information would help them out.

One tip is all it takes to help bring her home.

Thank you for reading my blog again I want to say that I welcome all comments on this entry and others I have written.

Please come home Mariam !

-Tarah

UPDATE IN MARIAM CASE !

Hi everyone , as you all know I (like many of you ) are keeping up to date with the case of the missing now 18 year old Mariam from the eglington and bathurst area .

Police today announced today they will be using an OPP helicopter to search 2 parks in order to find new information that will help lead to the discovery of Mariam.

They were searching Earl Bales Park(*again) and Sherwood Park.

UPDATE: According to a couple articles I just read on the CBC site as well as National Post police didn't find anything and if they did they are not releasing that information to the public. So both searches of the two parks left them nowhere :(

Mariam has been missing since September 14th 2009 . She is a student at Forrest Hill Collegiate in the 11th Grade. Please help bring this girl home , her family and friends and neighbours are very concerned for her as she has been missing for almost 2 months. She is new to Toronto and doesn't know her way around . If you have any information ,tips or sightings of her please call CRIMESTOPPERS !! you can also tweet and txt tips anonymously !

If we all ban together we can hopefully help bring her home to her family.

Someone knows where she is or what happened to her and they can be the key to her safe return.

Again I will say picture yourself in her family's shoes , wouldn't you want your child home safe and not rest until they were found? I will continue to post updates on this story and hope that it has a happy ending, I want to give a shout out to the neighbours of Mariam's family and other residents in the area for being so caring and helpful in the case .

Feel free to post your comments on this new development ,

Praying for her safe return ,

Tarah

Warning to TTC users who use the 96 wilson or 165 Bus routes

Hey everyone sorry I havent posted in a few days , college has been busy!

Just thought i'd share this story with people who are regular TTC users.

I was coming home on the 96 A Wilson bus from York Mills Stn the other day and came accross a woman i will describe as "out of her mind" , i have had a couple encounters with her before . My first encounter was a couple months ago:

Previously this woman has come onto the bus and demanded that I get out of "her" seat , she just stomped onto the crowded bus screamed at me to get out of her seat and wouldnt stop yelling at me till i got out ,so i obliged as I was traveling alone and was terrified of her , I thought hey no big deal i;ll just put my bag down on the little thing near the door , as i did this she literally picked up my bag and tossed it aside to put her own dirty little kid backpack in its place , as i saw her doing this i grabbed my bag from her and said "dont touch my ****ing bag" , as i was getting really annoyed. As i did that she hit my arm . I decided then and there to get off the bus . The second encounter happened 2 weeks later , I was sitting in the front on the driver side across from her , she put her bag in the empty seat next to her ( as many of us are guilty of doing ) as the bus was filling up an older lady came on and asked the woman to move her bag not once but 3 x. The lady who was talking to herself ignored her , but as soon as the older lady moved her backpack off the seat the crazy woman started smacking her on the arm , i was starring shocked and open mouthed , another passenger who had seen it got up and offered her his seat as everyone started mumbling how nuts this woman was.

The most recent encounter with her happened on Thursday of this past week , I was in the front of the line waiting again for the 96 at the station , she comes out of nowhere and buds right infront of me , i start laughing and shaking my head at her rudeness looking at the long line up behind me thinking "how can no one say anything to her ?" Again she goes to her usual spot on the door side first seat , and throws her bag on the seat next to her , again another older lady taps her on the shoulder to ask her to move her bag , the lady ignored her and taps her back 2x , feeling frusturated the lady looks around for another place to sit and again another passenger in the middle offers her his seat. I shoot her a dirty look and shake my head again.

This woman happens to live near me and gets off at the same stop so as I was leaving the bus I happen to say something to driver and what I said in a kind of undertone adding to my thank you is "you might want to watch out for her" i nod my head in her direction , he shoots me a blank look and I get off.

I want to warn fellow passengers of this women because she is dangerous and can act violently ,

this is what she looks like :

Approx 5''7 , short brown hair , wears a navy blue puffy coat with a pink stripe , and black and white striped toque . Also carries a backpack or shopping bag.

Anyone else had similar experiences with her? I was advised by a police friend to call police if she acts violently towards me.

Just want to warn people to not get too close to her or sit near her. Dont ever ask her to move her stuff she wont , and dont touch her as this provokes her.

Police Seize Computers from 2 Local Libraries Mariam Frequented

Its been 44 days and still no sign as to the whereabouts of Mariam Makniashvili, the now 18 yr old teen missing from Toronto.

After the discovery of her backpack, Police have now on the day of her birthday gone to two libraries Barbra Frum and Forrest Hill. They have seized computers from each of these branches to see Mariam's online activity .

Mariam may have been using the computers there sometime between her arrival in Toronto in June from Georgia up until her September 14th disappearance.

I am in a bit of shock to see they went to Barbra Frum Library as I used to go there a lot.

I was also shocked when they searched Earl Bales park since that park is very close to where I live. I really hope they find her soon, If you have any information PLEASE CALL ,TXT , TWEET FACEBOOK /or whatever to CRIMESTOPPERS !! You can remain anonymous , any information would be helpful to police and investigators , imagine if this were your friend , daughter , niece grandchild and they have been missing for that long. Please help bring her home !!

I will continue to post updates about Mariam as they come out.

Thank you !

Are You Kidding Me ?

So in the age of Facebook, Myspace and Twitter I thought id post and comment on this funny article I happened to come upon on Yahoo .Basically a woman in the U.S issued a restraining order on another woman because she "poked" her ( Poking is basically the facebook way of saying "hey whats up")

What I wanna know is why? Why would any court issue a restraining order because of virtual poke?

There has to be a resaonable explanation for this , but I guess in the age we live in even online poking someone is seen and acceptable as "harassment" I wonder whats next?

What are your thoughts on this?

I as a regular facebook user think its ridiculous and hilarious at the same time..

Here's the article

http://ca.tech.yahoo.com/blogs/the_gadget_hound/rss/article/3920

Enjoy :)

-Tarah

What a great start to the week after the loong weekend

So haven't really written much on this blog in a while since i started college at Centennial for Broadcasting and Film but thought I would get into it again ,

Had a pretty interesting morning after the long weekend , was in my 1st class of the day when at about 11:20 am approx . we were all told to by our Prof to "get out" the whole school was beign evacuated for the day due to an investigation as we were told by police. I heard a few students outside saying it was a bomb threat ,later on after searching the internet I found that was infact the case .Its really ironic that this happens less than a month after the incident at ashtonbee campus with the huge evacuation that took place. I dont think the incident today was as bad as it was last month but its still pretty scary. 800 of us were all told to leave the building and told not to come back untill tommorow. I havent had to deal with bomb threats since I was in elementary school and we had approx 3 threats happen where we had to evacuate in less than a year. One of the evacuations took place the day after 9/11. This made the news already today so Im assuming we will hear more about it later on today and probably tommorow. I have to admit it was pretty freaky getting on the #25 bus to go Pape Stn when 5 fire trucks come screaming down the road and heading for the school and one of the cafe staff who got on the bus was screaming on the bus" theres a bomb in the school!!" . Hope Police and Investigators can get to the bottom of it and find the one responsible for this , if it was a sick joke thats just sad.. anyways it was not the way me and my fellow students wanted to start our week after the long weekend...