On the Bloor line heading east, I heard a disturbing bit of news: There had been a "track-level, personal injury accident" at Woodbine station.

Therefore, the TTC had to halt subway service between Broadview and Victoria Park stations. A shuttle bus would take people from Broadview to Vic Park, allowing me to view the visual splendours of T.O.'s Champs Elysee -- aka The Danforth.

The TTC didn't deal so well with this disruption.

First of all, there was a huge rush to get on the bus at Broadview station, leaving the thing completely packed.

That same bus then went down the Danforth making stops. Whenever the bus would stop, new people would frantically try to get on. You'd think they were trying to flee a civil war or alien invasion.

The driver was a pretty gruff guy. When one woman got clanged by the doors and whined about it, he stood up and said (words to the effect of): "Did you think I was kidding when I told you to clear the goddamned doors?"

He also threatened to take the bus out of service if people didn't chill.

But he also tried dodging the stops (stopping before the stop or on the other side of the lights), which made people run for the bus and more crazed when they got to it.

As is usual in these situations, people inside the bus near the front doors wouldn't move back into the centre of the bus. We could have squeezed six more people in easily had the space in the middle been better utilized.

The next time the TTC does this, they should send an empty bus ahead to pick up people from all the surface spots, then send a full station bus behind it.

One final thing: One guy who clawed his way on through the bus's rear entrance despite people screaming at him that there was no room fixed the driver with a baleful stare at Vic Park.

The driver told him to wait to enter about a bus-length further up.

"Are you going to stop at Main Street? Because you did not stop there and I rang to get off! Now I want to go back!" he said, in full harangue mode.

Funny, he was so silent and oblivious to people screaming at him, I thought he was a deaf mute. My mistake.