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Here’s a neat “railfan window” video from photographer Tyler Freedman. I always enjoy watching these videos as they show you a full subway line in a couple of minutes. What I noticed from Tyler’s video is how clean the tracks and trackbeds are compared to NYC. I didn’t see any trash – you watch the video and see if you can find any trash.

Tyler notes, “A high-speed journey aboard a TTC train, as it travels from Downsview Station (NW terminus) to Finch Station (NE terminus), in the wee hours of the morn, on Toronto’s Yonge-University-Spadina line.”
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The National Post newspaper in Toronto, Canada has put together an etiquette group they call the TTCC or the Toronto Transit Civility Commission. The idea is to post etiquette posters all around the Toronto subways to help people remember to:

1. take only the number of seats a human needs
2. to not stink
3. and to not do personal grooming on the subway

I would add one about putting your trash in the trash bin. Here in NYC I think there are more trash bins than there are people yet pigs throw their garbage on the tracks and on the ground.

The posters (one seen below) are also available in large sizes perfect for printing.