{"id":4162,"date":"2015-06-12T15:15:02","date_gmt":"2015-06-12T20:15:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vivanext.com\/blog\/?p=4162"},"modified":"2015-06-12T15:15:02","modified_gmt":"2015-06-12T20:15:02","slug":"private-time-on-public-transit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yrrtc.ca\/blog\/2015\/06\/12\/private-time-on-public-transit\/","title":{"rendered":"private time on public transit"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The Toronto Star recently ran a piece on how the TTC has become an extension of \u201chome\u201d for its users. While he remarked that some people do things not normally considered polite for public spaces, Urban Affairs writer Christopher Hume also noted that even with less privacy, riders have more freedom<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cEven in a moving subway,\u201d he wrote, \u201cit\u2019s easier to put on lipstick than it is driving on Highway 401. It\u2019s also easier to eat, drink, read and tend to one\u2019s appearance.\u201d<\/p>\n

People who use transit regularly use the time in a variety of ways that are either impossible or risky when driving a car. They read books, work on laptops, watch TV, talk to other riders, snooze \u2013 and yes, put on makeup or simply stare into space at the end of a busy day.<\/p>\n

They don\u2019t worry about being cut off in traffic or being stuck behind a sander during a snowstorm. Parking and finding a gas station are also non-issues, and riders save thousands of dollars a year<\/a> in car depreciation, gas and insurance. And let\u2019s not forget that they also get tax credits for transit passes like the Viva Monthly Pass<\/a>.<\/p>\n

If you trade your car keys for a transit seat, you might just find yourself with time on your hands!<\/p>\n

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The Toronto Star recently ran a piece on how the TTC has become an extension of \u201chome\u201d for its users. While he remarked that some people do things not normally considered polite for public spaces, Urban Affairs writer Christopher Hume also noted that even with less privacy, riders have more freedom. \u201cEven in a moving […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53],"tags":[523,395,524,6,7],"class_list":["post-4162","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-private","tag-public-transit","tag-time","tag-viva","tag-vivanext"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yrrtc.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4162","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yrrtc.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yrrtc.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yrrtc.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yrrtc.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4162"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/yrrtc.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4162\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4168,"href":"https:\/\/yrrtc.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4162\/revisions\/4168"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yrrtc.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yrrtc.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yrrtc.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}