How many items does the TTC’s lost and found get in a day?

By Toronto Life | January 1, 2006

By Toronto Life | 01/01/2006

Dear Urban Decoder: How many items does the TTC’s lost and found get in a day?—Kathleen Stevens, Beaconsfield

The facility, on the mezzanine of Bay station, gets an average of 100 to 200 objects a day—a total of roughly 45,000 per year. When it rains, the lost and found is deluged with brollies. In winter, it snows hats, mitts and scarves. The start of the school year brings bookbags galore. Each new article is first itemized in a searchable database. Staff do their darndest to reunite us with our lost crap, scouring goods for clues about the owners’ identity. When prescription drugs are found in a purse, for example, the TTC will contact the pharmacy. Their diligence has netted respectable results—about 36 per cent of all items are successfully returned. The rest, after a 90-day holding period, find a home on the TTC’s year-old on-line auction site. You don’t know the meaning of forgetful until you’ve checked out some of the stuff left on the TTC in recent years: snow shovels, false teeth, VCRs, a wheelchair, cats and dogs, a karaoke machine, oxygen tanks and an artificial eye. Somewhere, someone is missing a brand-new French Provincial–style luxury chair, still in its box.

5 thoughts on “How many items does the TTC’s lost and found get in a day?”

well I really hope that my bag shows up, a Loblaws cloth bag with my book, half read, a cotton kuti, a beautiful black dress and a top all from Value Village..wah…

My watch well off on the bus on route 100 today while getting down at Wynford Heights at 8.50 PM. I was sitting on the elevated seat at the back (third in row) on left side and heard the sound when it fell but did not realize that was my watch! Hope to get it back.

Hier, ma fille a laissé mon sac dans le train, dans ce sac, j’ai toute ma vie, et celles de mes enfants: cartes d’identité, assurance, bancaire, sin, la clé de ma maison, le biberon de mon bébé avec du lait dedans, mes lunettes enfin, toutes mes affaires importantes.
je suis malade à l’idée de ne plus revoir ce sac.
Je ne sais plus quoi faire.

I lost a grab bag with a black cap in it-on bus no.68-going North on Warden Avenue on the 12th of April around 5.30 pm. Please let me know whether it could be claimed at your L&F department at Bay Subway.

I lost my backpack along with my money and house key! Please please please !if you find a Reebok black backpack on a 501 street bus. Please let me know! Thanks

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