[URBAN NOTE] "TTC promises fewer A/C issues on Line 2 next summer"

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CBC News' Tania Mehta reports.

The TTC is telling riders on Line 2, the Bloor-Danforth line, that next summer will be "monumentally different" in terms of battling those hot and stuffy subway cars.

TTC Spokesperson Brad Ross told CBC Metro Morning Friday that he can't guarantee riders won't step onto a hot subway car on Line 2 in the future but that the TTC is addressing many of the issues with the air conditioning on the trains.

"Around 83 per cent of all the cars on the Bloor-Danforth Line have functioning A/C," Ross said. But the problem will never be fully resolved, he warned, because "stepping onto a hot car is always a possibility."

Ross was responding after comments from a listener on Metro Morning's Vox Box were played on the show.

The listener said there's a clear double standard between Line 1 and Line 2.

"Line 1 is like business class and Line 2 is like third-class storage on a ship," he said. "Line 1 trains are airy, open, spacious, bright, with A/C and Line 2 are dark, dingy and boiling hot."

All of this is true.