Something doesn't add up. At his 38k CAD salary as a repairman, the entire budget of the LRT would pay for just 26 repairmen? What about the drivers, electricity, maintaining old and buying new trains?
From Wikipedia: The LRT system had an estimated 18,220 weekday passenger boardings in 1978.
If I remember correctly fares ranged somewhere between 35-65 cents in those days.
Also, with 68 fare machines in the city in 1978, how many repairmen do you really need?
Going to unmanned and paying someone a premium to rapidly respond and fix machines 24/7 would be a massive cost reduction.
Recently discontinued Scarborough Rapid Transit could have been driverless, but still wasn’t.
Toronto’s will have both a driver and and an on-train “guard” person to look out the window to make sure nobody is trapped in the door or something. Might get eliminated tho: https://www.newswire.ca/news-releases/toronto-says-no-to-ttc...