Take Action:
Tell Premier McGuinty and his Government to keep their promises and restore Transit City funding now!
With the release of the Ontario Budget, Premier McGuinty broke an important promise by cutting $4 Billion in funding for Transit City. At best, this means a five year delay. Most likely however, this cut will kill the Transit City Plan.
Premier McGuinty promised Torontonians $8 billion to help build Transit City. He promised this money would flow quickly. Now, he’s broken his promise. If enough of us share our frustrations with our MPPs, it will be clear to them that the political price for delaying Transit City is too high and we can force the Government to reverse this very bad decision. With your help, we can put Transit City back on track!
Sample Email
Feel free to cut and paste this into your message below
Dear Premier McGuinty,
I am alarmed by your decision to delay the funding for the Transit City Light Rail plan. Toronto and the GTA desperately need Transit City now. Transit City is too vital to the health of our city to be put on hold and this delay will create dramatically more harm than good.
Transit City will finally provide desperately needed rapid transit to Toronto’s inner suburbs which include several priority neighbourhoods. Transit City will remove millions of cars from our crowded streets, helping to address some of the world’s worst gridlock while reducing our greenhouse gas emissions and other harmful pollutants.
Premier, less than two years ago you said, “The time to make this sort of ambitious realistic investment is now. Our economy demands it. What’s more, our families deserve it, because gridlock not only saps strength out of our economy, it steals time from our families.” (McGuinty Government Action Plan for Rapid Transit Will Move the Economy Forward – June 15, 2007)
What has changed since you made this announcement Premier? Do families no longer deserve more time together? Has gridlock been eliminated? Do we no longer need good jobs in the GTA?
I ask you to please deliver on your promise and return the $4 billion to the Transit City budget to keep this plan on track!
Sincerely,
This email will be addressed to the Premier but will also be sent to all Toronto MPPs, the Minister of Finance, the Minister of Transportation, TTC Commissioners, the Toronto Budget Chief, and the Toronto Mayor’s Office. You can see all of these contact details at the bottom of this page
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Call, Fax, & Send a Letter to your MPP
If you care about the future of our public transit system, please contact your MPP now!
You’ll find all Toronto MPP’s contact details below. If you do not know who your MPP is or what riding you live in, click here to find out.
Call right now and leave a simple message:
“Please restore the $4 Billion in Transit City funding now! We can’t afford any delay.”
Transit City is too vital to Toronto to be delayed. That’s because delay:
- Dooms Torontonians to overcrowded, slow bus service and will only add to some of the world’s worst commuter gridlock
- Means more deaths due to smog as Torontonians will continue to use polluting cars without new Light Rail Transit
- Harms Toronto’s economy by eliminating thousands of promised Transit City jobs
Premier McGuinty promised Torontonians $8 billion to help build Transit City. He promised this money would flow quickly. Now, he’s broken his promise.
If enough of us share our frustrations with our MPPs, it will be clear to them that the political price for delaying Transit City is too high and we can force the Government to reverse this very bad decision. With your help, we can put Transit City back on track!
Let us know if you’ve called your MPP. Email us at info@ttcriders.ca or call (416) 596-0660 & speak to anyone in our office.
The email message above will be sent to the Premier’s office (dmcguinty.mpp@liberal.ola.org), the Minister of Finance (dduncan.mpp.co@liberal.ola.org, financecommunications.fin@ontario.ca), and the Minister of Transportation (kwynne.mpp@liberal.ola.org).
The following people will also be CC’d on this message: the TTC (chair@ttc.ca) and all TTC Commissioners (councillor_giambrone@toronto.ca, councillor_mihevc@toronto.ca, councillor_augimeri@toronto.ca, councillor_bussin@toronto.ca, councillor_hall@toronto.ca, councillor_milczyn@toronto.ca, councillor_moeser@toronto.ca, councillor_perruzza@toronto.ca, councillor_saundercook@toronto.ca), the Mayor’s office (mayor_miller@toronto.ca), Toronto’s Budget Chief (councillor_carroll@toronto.ca), all Toronto MPPs (mprue-co@ndp.on.ca, truprecht.mpp.co@liberal.ola.org, dcaplan.mpp.co@liberal.ola.org, kwynne.mpp@liberal.ola.org, mcolle.mpp.co@liberal.ola.org, dcansfield.mpp.co@liberal.ola.org, sqaadri.mpp.co@liberal.ola.org, lbroten.mpp.co@liberal.ola.org, dinovoc-co@ndp.on.ca, warthurs.mpp.co@liberal.ola.org, bduguid.mpp.co@liberal.ola.org, lberardinetti.mpp.co@liberal.ola.org, gphillips.mpp.co@liberal.ola.org, mbest.mpp.co@liberal.ola.org, bbalkissoon.mpp.co@liberal.ola.org, ehoskins.mpp.co@liberal.ola.org, gmurray.mpp.co@liberal.ola.org, tabunsp-co@ndp.on.ca, rmarchese-co@ndp.on.ca, dzimmer.mpp.co@liberal.ola.org, mkwinter.mpp.co@liberal.ola.org, lalbanese.mpp.co@liberal.ola.org, msergio.mpp@liberal.ola.org) as well as info@ttcriders.ca
