Hope no one used Union Station the New Year’s Eve

[DesRicardo]

Crowding at Union Station causes delays on New Year's Eve

Users on different social media platforms showed excessive crowding at Union Station last night with hundreds of people trying to get home.

toronto.citynews.ca

What a nice way to bring in the new year.

TikTok - Make Your Day

TikTok - Make Your Day

TikTok - Make Your Day

 

[DesRicardo]

This guy couldn't even get the National anthem right.
http://instagr.am/p/C1kFZOvL00K/

 

[Fun For All]

I haven't been out on New Year's Eve in years...crowds, lineups, fights, cops, got tired of it.

 

[SchlongConery]

I haven't been out on New Year's Eve in years...crowds, lineups, fights, cops, got tired of it.

Flibbity floo you say 'Fun for All'?

 

[DesRicardo]

New Year same BS on the TTC. At least the shook hands before it got out of control.
http://instagr.am/p/C1kKv2wLAfY/

 

[DesRicardo]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1741840687430049847

 

[xix]

Now this makes sense. In my city it was all quiet. Walmart and other stores closed 6pm. Never heard or seen that before. Some corner stores open. Saw many restaurants and fast food closed at 6pm.
What gives haven't seen this before.

Are we going back to the 1970's when malls were closed on Sunday and at 6pm on Mon, Tues, and Wednesday?

 

[glamphotographer]

They did the right thing by not drinking and driving but did the wrong thing coming DT.

 

[glamphotographer]

E-bike caught on fire on the TTC.

 

[HotDogger]

Now this makes sense. In my city it was all quiet. Walmart and other stores closed 6pm. Never heard or seen that before. Some corner stores open. Saw many restaurants and fast food closed at 6pm.
What gives haven't seen this before.

Are we going back to the 1970's when malls were closed on Sunday and at 6pm on Mon, Tues, and Wednesday?

Covid was a trial run for a return to earlier closing hours. Now that the recession is upon us, stores and restaurants are quickly resorting to earlier closings. In Hamilton, for example, I am seeing more Walmarts closing at 10pm instead of 11pm. Forces me to be more organized for grocery runs.

 

[HotDogger]

THATS A ROOKIE MOVE

NEW YEARS EVE AND ST.PADDY'S DAY IN AMATUER HOUR AND ONLY IDIOTS GO OUT AND PARTY IN DROVES
ALSO YOU CAN TELL THAT MANY OF THOSE WERE INDIAN IMMIGRANTS AND OTHER NEWCOMERS TO CANADA, SO THEY PROBABLY GOT TOO EXCITED AND THOUGHT NEW YEARS EVE WAS GONNA BE SOMETHING SPECIAL DOWNTOWN.'

AS FOR THE E-BIKES, ITS NO SHOCK AS THOSE GOOFY UBER BIKE GUYS ARE EVERYWHERE AND GET IN EVERYBODYS WAY.

Here we go again. Always blaming the poor neophyte immigrants. Is Archie Bunker your favorite character?

Remember, we are all immigrants here. Just because you got here earlier doesn’t make it ok to shit on the ones that arrived later - even if they act stupidly, relatively speaking.

 

[shack]

Now this makes sense. In my city it was all quiet. Walmart and other stores closed 6pm. Never heard or seen that before. Some corner stores open. Saw many restaurants and fast food closed at 6pm.
What gives haven't seen this before.

Are we going back to the 1970's when malls were closed on Sunday and at 6pm on Mon, Tues, and Wednesday?

It was Sam (The Record Man) Sniderman and Paul Magder of Magder Furs that bucked the holiday and Sunday shopping laws and won. They were the pioneers.

 

[Insidious Von]

Here we go again. Always blaming the poor neophyte immigrants. Is Archie Bunker your favorite character?

Remember, we are all immigrants here. Just because you got here earlier doesn’t make it ok to shit on the ones that arrived later - even if they act stupidly, relatively speaking.

Well said.

My family moved to Toronto in the mid 60's. We got an invitation to attend the first CHIN Picnic, we thought it was the event of they year. I don't remember much about the picnic except for how terribly the hippies reeked! They showed up for the free food. On the ferry ride back to the mainland, I nearly passed out from the stench.

 

[HotDogger]

It was Sam (The Record Man) Sniderman and Paul Magder of Magder Furs that bucked the holiday and Sunday shopping laws and won. They were the pioneers.

Those “pioneers” helped free us from oppressive Christianity only to be enslaved by crippling consumerism.

 

[bazokajoe]

Now this makes sense. In my city it was all quiet. Walmart and other stores closed 6pm. Never heard or seen that before. Some corner stores open. Saw many restaurants and fast food closed at 6pm.
What gives haven't seen this before.

Are we going back to the 1970's when malls were closed on Sunday and at 6pm on Mon, Tues, and Wednesday?

It's always been like that on Xmas eve and NYE.

 

[explorerzip]

THATS A ROOKIE MOVE

NEW YEARS EVE AND ST.PADDY'S DAY IN AMATUER HOUR AND ONLY IDIOTS GO OUT AND PARTY IN DROVES
ALSO YOU CAN TELL THAT MANY OF THOSE WERE INDIAN IMMIGRANTS AND OTHER NEWCOMERS TO CANADA, SO THEY PROBABLY GOT TOO EXCITED AND THOUGHT NEW YEARS EVE WAS GONNA BE SOMETHING SPECIAL DOWNTOWN.'

AS FOR THE E-BIKES, ITS NO SHOCK AS THOSE GOOFY UBER BIKE GUYS ARE EVERYWHERE AND GET IN EVERYBODYS WAY.

Your eyesight is amazing that you can look at a random screenshot of the back of people's heads and can tell that many of them are Indians or other newcomers. Yet you didn't see that you left your CAPS LOCK on on your keyboard.

 

[benstt]

Your eyesight is amazing that you can look at a random screenshot of the back of people's heads and can tell that many of them are Indians or other newcomers.

It's a social media go-to for bigots and the movements they serve. See any picture online of any gathering in Toronto, Niagara, etc, and there will be an instant comment about how the country now looks like Mumbai/Bangalore/India, no matter who is in the picture.

Expect better from our political parties.

 

[explorerzip]

It's a social media go-to for bigots and the movements they serve. See any picture online of any gathering in Toronto, Niagara, etc, and there will be an instant comment about how the country now looks like Mumbai/Bangalore/India, no matter who is in the picture.

Expect better from our political parties.

Our polical parties are much worse.

 

[Redbag]

Your eyesight is amazing that you can look at a random screenshot of the back of people's heads and can tell that many of them are Indians or other newcomers. Yet you didn't see that you left your CAPS LOCK on on your keyboard.

I watched the video pausing and zooming in several times. Most of the faces you can see in the crowd do seem to be descendants of one of the five regions of Asia.

 

[ramblin]

It's always been like that on Xmas eve and NYE.

You'd think some halfway smart Metrolinx/TTC/Union Station employee could devise a system to manage/alleviate a re-occuring crowding issue. But, I guess that would take initiative...