Is it inappropriate for a court to be involved in the supervision of a public transit system?
Ontario, Canada
The following excerpt is from Mandrake Management Consultants Ltd. v. Toronto Transit Commission, 1993 CanLII 9417 (ON CA):
At p. 273 of his reasons for judgment in Turtle v. City of Toronto, supra, Masten J.A. touched upon the inappropriateness of a court becoming involved in the supervision of a public transit system. In this case the trial judge was cognizant of it when the plaintiffs asked him to order a reduction in the speed of the northbound trains entering the station. He properly refused to make that order. Regrettably he did not keep in mind the fact that it is inappropriate for a court to insert itself into the operation of a transit system when he ordered the removal of the frog.
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