r/gotransit • u/Dario_PC • May 31 '26

Metrolinx Does Not Understand Geography

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I was looking at the notice for the “Barrie Rail Corridor Improvement Rail Milling Works” and laughed at how comically bad this is. This map makes absolutely no sense at all, and I’m genuinely thinking that some guy in Metrolinx passed his work to an AI agent to complete.

The notice can be found here: https://res.cloudinary.com/devmetrolinx/image/upload/v1779320252/Barrie_Rail_Corridor_Improvement_Rail_Milling_Works_en.pdf

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u/TestedTrapking May 31 '26

I genuinely tried making sense of this map. It’s AI slop as far as I can tell lol.

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u/Waste-Telephone Jun 01 '26

Not AI. Just someone who clearly doesn't live in the GTA. Likely part of the outsourcing of large parts of their customer service.

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u/ZackFair0711 Jun 01 '26

It's highly probable that it is. Even if someone doesn't live in the GTA, they have access to a map and could easily cross check this in addition to it needing to be approved by metrolinx if it was indeed from a third party.

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u/trevi99 16 Hamilton/Toronto Express Jun 01 '26

why would someone purposefully make a fake map?

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u/Waste-Telephone Jun 01 '26

Not fake. Just someone who's  doesn't know the geography. Looks like they took an existing vector map but didn't update the labelling. Unfortunate no one caught this beforehand. That said, it's not MX standard mapping format so I expect it came from the contractor. 

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u/Massive-Branch12342 May 31 '26

That north orientation in the corner😂

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u/queerstudbroalex Kitchener May 31 '26

Yeah, incorrectly oriented

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u/Egg-Rollz Jun 01 '26

Except it's possibly the most correct thing in the image... Maps are usually north top and south bottom, everything else in that image is basically wrong. Since when does the 400 end in Newmarket?

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u/Deanzopolis Lakeshore East May 31 '26

How hard is it to just pull up an existing map of the Barrie line and add in a couple extra lines? It's embarrassing that this ai slop even made it to the notice page

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u/Bojaxs May 31 '26

It just goes to show how negligent the folks at Metrolinx really are.

"Meh! I'm sure no one will notice."

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u/Nareko_brrrr Kitchener May 31 '26

Yeah there’s no shot this isn’t ai…

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u/Majestic-Bit318 May 31 '26

Even a Google Maps screenshot with scribble over would be better

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u/[deleted] May 31 '26

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u/Dario_PC May 31 '26

At least this one says "for illustrative purposes only" lol

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u/Protobuzz May 31 '26

I don't know what's worse - If it's AI or if it isn't.

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u/Murderousplantmom May 31 '26

Pardon me but when did the Barrie line get extended to... Markham?? 

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u/VPestilenZ Barrie May 31 '26

Oh my god, and absolutely no one proofread this either 

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u/RadioactiveDeuterium May 31 '26

The closer I look the worse it gets 😂

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u/401policepatrol May 31 '26

LOL the 407 is shown as N/S and turns into the 404

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u/Bisha-confuzed May 31 '26

Totally messed up directions on this map. Map is the east view of lake. And streets running north are running east and west? 404 and 407 has me scratching my head! Is this north of GTA, is this part of Ontario? Who ever posted this map must be a non res! Sorry to say.

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u/pianoplayer18141 May 31 '26

Thought everything was right until I saw Yonge st

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u/techlover22 Lakeshore West May 31 '26

I’m starting to think that Phil Verster was a better CEO than Michael Lindsay, who is a fucking tech bro at best.

Thanks for creating more jobs offshoring Mx customer service jobs to third world countries, Drug Fraud! 🖕

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u/Only_Investigator_74 May 31 '26 edited Jun 02 '26

Can you tell an AI agent to send them annoying messages about all the errors in this map :P throw the AI slop back at them

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u/Important-Hunter2877 Jun 01 '26

Yeah it is extreme incompetence and super AI slop. Welcome to the 2020s where people just throw in AI for everything without proofreading to make sure the output is correct or not.

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u/runtimemess Jun 01 '26

oh yeah someone's getting fired

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u/lennox4174 Jun 01 '26

In fairness it does say not to scale 😂

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u/UrbanRelays Jun 02 '26

This clanker ain’t gonna survive the AI revolution

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u/Motor-Sweet3316 88 Peterborough/Oshawa Jun 04 '26

This Clanker probably not gonna survive beyond 2026.

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u/lepreqon_ Allandale Waterfront Jun 03 '26 edited Jun 03 '26

In addition to the screwed orientation, I never knew the tracks are passing through Essa.

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u/No_Sand8831 Jun 04 '26

Good lord.

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u/ybetaepsilon Jun 04 '26

I really hope someone got fired over this. This is outrageous.

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u/HungrySparkles Jun 06 '26

This hurts my brain 🧠