Clipping your nails, eating fried chicken and blasting your music will now be allowed on specially marked TTC subway cars.
Well, that or it’s April Fool’s Day.
In a tongue firmly in cheek video posted to YouTube early Monday morning, TTC Spokesperson Brad Ross and Chief Customer Service Office Chris Uphold unveiled details for the TTC’s new “personal car”, a designated subway car in which no rules or expectation of personal courtesy exists.
“We are going to address a whole swath of our customer complaints with one single innovation,” Uphold says aboard an empty subway car. “On any one of our trains there will be a single car that people can think of as their personal space and on that car they can do anything they want to. It’s their personal space; it is their personal car.
The three-minute video shows Ross and Uphold sprawled out on several seats, sharing a bucket of fried chicken and talking about the new “personal car” program in between making loud personal phone calls.
At one point an incredulous Ross asks Uphold about clipping his nails and upon learning that it’s acceptable pulls out a pair of clippers and goes to work.
“Nail clipping. It seems to really bother people, but I can clip my nails on the personal car?” Ross says.
“Brad, it is the personal car,” Uphold replies. “There is no point in even having a personal car if you can’t do your personal grooming in public.”
At the end of the video Ross and Uphold, admit to the joke, saying the personal car program will only be offered until noon on April 1.
“After that, although these behaviors aren’t illegal, I think we can all agree they aren’t entirely legitimate either,” Uphold says. “Public transit is a public space and we all have to get along the best we can.”
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