They Weren’t Properly Installed

Saturday, March 12, 2011

The Toronto Star tells a story of the continuing woes of Toronto’s stagnant public transit system.

In this case, why the escalators don’t work to get you up and down to track level.

“Even on the TTC’s newer Sheppard line, all the escalators are being overhauled — an eight-year process that will be complete in June because of a costly fiasco in which European-built escalators had to be taken apart and reassembled by unionized TTC workers. But they weren’t properly installed and are being rebuilt again.”

As usual I think of The Mikado and how one could Make the Punishment Fit the Crime.

Bear in mind that There are No Corporate Decisions . Only decisions by humans.

Why weren’t the escalators properly installed?

Did the unionized TTC workers goof off?

If so claw back the salaries of those workers for the interval during which they worked on the escalators.

Were the unionized TTC workers improperly managed?

If so claw back the salaries of those managers for the interval during which they managed the escalator project.

Can’t decide who was responsible?

Apply the punishment to both.

I confess to being swayed by my recent re-reading of Robert Massie’s “Peter The Great”.

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