When bloggers, geeks, technologists come together for a good cause to use their technical knowhow and social networking technologies to spread the word, important issues get noticed. Enter Toronto Transit Camp, which is an unconference similar to BarCamp organized by some of the TorCamp people. These people had their first meeting on how to improve Toronto public transit at the Gladstone Hotel yesterday. They're going to take all that was discussed from the meeting yesterday, along with comments on the website and Google group newsgroup, and provide a report of recommendations to give to the TTC. Apparently, TTC chair, Adam Giambrone (the youngest ever TTC chair, he's like only 29!) was there yesterday along with some other politicians.
It's great to hear that the tech community is really helping out on this, and shows how social networking technologies like wikis and blogs are really making the issues become noticed to everyone. In fact, news of the Toronto Transit Camp have made international waves too at BoingBoing, where famous Cory Doctorow is a part of (he's Canadian eh, and also a regular speaker on TWIT, This Week in Tech hosted by Leo Laporte).
It'll be interesting to see what happens from Toronto Transit Camp, and if we can get make Toronto a world class city with first class transportation (similar to other transit systems like Hong Kong and Japan). I would really like to see a single smart card for the TTC and for GO Transit, similar to the Octopus card that can be used for the tram, MTR subway, bus, ferry in Hong Kong.
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