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Take action: Tell the province to provide better funding for public transit

By Jess On June 15, 2013 · Add Comment
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TTCriders wrote a follow-up a letter to Metrolinx responding to their shortlist of revenue tools to fund transit expansion in the GTHA in advance of the release Metrolinx releasing its final investment strategy. The strategy includes a 1% increase to HST, a 5-cents per litre increase in gas tax, a business parking levy, and a 15% increase in development charges.
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Apply to join TTCriders’ External Affairs Committee

By Jess On March 14, 2013 · Add Comment
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We are currently looking for volunteers to sit on our External Affairs Committee. About the External Affairs Committee As the ‘voice’ for TTCriders, the External Affairs Committee is responsible for establishing and executing campaigns, providing educational resources, participating in the public discussion on transit, and building partnerships with other stakeholders. Meetings usually take place downtown on Monday evenings.  Members are expected to commit to a minimum 3-month term. All members [...]
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TTCriders responds to city’s decision to remove TTC surplus from the TTC

On June 11, 2013 By Jess
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This letter to the editor was published in the Toronto Star on Monday June 10.  Tell us what you think of this issue in the comments box.  You can also express your opinion to your local city councillor. Toronto records $248 million surplus for 2012, June 4 Paul Maloney’s article calls attention to the urgent need for city hall to redirect the $41 million in TTC surplus revenue back into [...]
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TTCriders responds to ongoing debate on transit revenue tools

On May 23, 2013 By Jess
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On Monday, TTCriders wrote a follow-up a letter to Metrolinx responding to their shortlist of revenue tools to fund transit expansion in the Greater Toronto and Hamilton Area. In our letter, we identified that corporate and high-income tax revenue, while absent from Metrolinx’s shortlist, are critical sources for funding transit expansion and operations. Corporate and high-income taxes are progressive, equitable and historically important tools which [...]
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Scarborough Transit Talk – Wednesday, May 15th

On April 28, 2013 By Jess
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Got something to say about the TTC? Join us at the Scarborough Civic Centre on May 15th to share your thoughts and opinion about public transit in Toronto with the TTC’s Chief Executive Officer, Andy Byford and the TTC’s Chief Customer Officer, Chris Upfold. TTCriders will be holding talks in each corner of the city with a focus on service issues — now it’s Scarborough‘s turn to be heard – just another way [...]
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CodeRedTO Funding Information Sessions

On April 14, 2013 By Jess
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CodeRedTO, a small group of people devoted to improving transit growth in Toronto, is holding information sessions around the city (and not just downtown, there is one for each of Etobicoke, North York and Scarborough). The sessions include Mathew Bertin of Metrolinx to talk about how Metrolinx is approaching the important tasks of funding and building transit in the Toronto Area. There will also likely [...]
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Check out our new TTCriders membership postcards

On April 3, 2013 By Jess
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Thanks to all your membership donations, TTCriders just printed our first big run of membership postcards.  Special thanks goes to our graphic designer, Scott Kletke.  If you’re looking for a designer please reach out to him.   Thanks also to the photographer, Jose Ongpin.  
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Community Meetings to Discuss Transit

On April 2, 2013 By Jess
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Written by Shaun Cleaver, TTCriders External Affairs Committee member On Tuesday March 26th the Toronto Councillor for Ward 33, Shelley Carroll, hosted a public meeting to discuss public transit in the ward and in the city. Being a resident of Ward 33 (I live just south of Fairview Mall) I eagerly rode the #10 Van Horne to Pleasant View Community Centre to discuss plans to improve [...]
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Standing room only at TTCriders’ first Transit Talk Town Hall event

On March 22, 2013 By Jess
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On Wednesday night, TTCriders hosted its inaugural “Transit Talk” Town Hall event at Metro Hall, giving Toronto’s transit riders a chance to share their comments, questions, feedback and concerns directly with TTC Chief Executive Officer Andy Byford and Chief Customer Officer Chris Upfold. It was a packed house with over 60 spirited transit users who voiced concerns ranging from system accessibility to the elimination of tokens once [...]
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Become a TTCriders member

On March 21, 2013 By Jess
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TTCriders weighs in on The Big Move and funding transit expansion

On March 18, 2013 By Jess
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TTCriders has sent letters to both Metrolinx and the City of Toronto as part of their respective consultation processes — The Big Move Roundtables and Feeling Congested. Since the start of 2013, Metrolinx and the City of Toronto have been seeking public input into how they can raise sufficient revenue to pay for new transit construction in the Greater Toronto and Hamilton Area (GTHA). [...]
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TTCRiders supports Community Benefits Agreements

On March 7, 2013 By Jess
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Toronto’s new Light Rapid Transit (LRT) network is an estimated $8.4 billion project.  In addition to providing new, reliable, rapid transit for hundreds of thousands of people, the project potentially offers Torontonians the possibility of meaningful, well-paid work. Community groups, from Scarborough to Weston, are launching a campaign to make sure that all groups of people living near LRTs receive the greatest possible benefit from transit investment.  Their goal is [...]
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