Since we are on the topic of TTC. Heres some interesting facts:
>If you are a regular traveler on the TTC, here are some facts which you
>are
>going to wish you hadn't read.
>
>During Autumn of 2000, a team of scientists at theDepartment of
>Forensics at University of Toronto removed a row of passenger seats
from
>the Bloor Line subway car for analysis into cleanliness. Despite TTC's
>claim that the interior of their trains are cleaned on a regular basis,
>the scientists made some alarming discoveries.
>
>The analysis was broken down. This is what was found on the surface of
>the seats:
>* 4 types of hair sample (human, mouse, rat, dog)
>* 7 types of insect (mostly fleas, mostly alive)
>* vomit originating from at least 9 separate people
>* human urine originating from at least 4 separate people
>* human excrement
>* rodent excrement
>* human semen
>* the remains of 6 mice
>* the remains of 2 large rats
>* 1 previously unheard of fungus
>
>It is estimated that by holding one of the armrests, you are
>transferring, to your body, the natural oils and sweat from as many as
>400 different people.
>
>It is estimated that it is generally healthier to smoke five cigarettes
>a day than to travel for one hour a day on the TTC.
>
>It is far more hygienic to wipe your hand on the inside of a recently
>flushed toilet bowl before eating, than to wipe your hand on a TTC seat
>before eating.
>
>It is estimated that, within Toronto, more work sick-days are taken
>because of bugs picked up whilst traveling on the TTC than for any
other
>reason (including alcohol)