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Now Magazine printed my letter to the editor this week, but their edits robbed the original text of its unique sentence structure, grammatical freedom and “clever” use of scare quotes.

Here’s what appeared in the paper:

Chancing the TTC

The TTC portion of your bike issue’s commuter challenge is absolute nonsense.

I simply don’t believe that your writer had to wait 33 minutes just to get on a train at Dundas station in rush hour. It doesn’t ring true.

The route he chose to get to St. Clair and Lansdowne isn’t even the fastest available. Why take the St. Clair streetcar all the way from Yonge to Lansdowne? Take the subway from Yonge and Bloor to Lansdowne station and then take the 47 bus north. That certainly wouldn’t take 75 minutes.

The TTC didn’t stand a chance in your challenge.

John Bowman
Toronto

Here’s what I sent them:

The TTC portion of your “NOW commuter challenge” is absolute nonsense.

I simply don’t believe that your writer had to wait 33 minutes just to get on a train, even at Dundas station, even in rush hour. It doesn’t ring true.

And the route you chose to get to St. Clair and Lansdowne isn’t even the fastest route available. Why take the St. Clair streetcar all the way from Yonge to Lansdowne? Take the subway from Yonge/Bloor to Lansdowne station and then take the 47 bus north. That certainly wouldn’t take 75 minutes.

The TTC didn’t stand a chance in your “challenge.”

John Bowman
Toronto