Add your name for Fare Capping!

Add your name for fare capping - a more affordable, flexible and fairer way to pay for the TTC. Fare capping is a system that allows transit riders to ride for free after paying a certain number of trips in a day, week, or month. Your voice is needed to convince City Councillors to approve fare capping.

Feeling tapped out?

It’s not just you - Toronto transit fares are among the highest in Canada, and spending up to $156 for a monthly TTC transit pass is unaffordable for many riders. Since the pandemic, fewer transit riders are using monthly passes.

Freedom to ride whenever, wherever

There’s a solution - fare capping! Fare capping allows transit riders to ride free after a certain number of rides are taken in a day, week, or month, without paying the expensive upfront costs of a monthly transit pass. For example, if you paid for three trips on transit in one day, any further trips you take on that day could be free.

The TTC has endorsed the idea of fare capping! 

The good news is that Fare Capping was already adopted in principle by the TTC in 2022. If Toronto City Councillors approve moving forward with / approve and invest in fare capping, you would be able to ride the TTC whenever you want for free after a certain number of rides in a day, week, or month. Add your name to urge City Councillors to approve and implement a flexible, affordable and fair fare capping system.

Fairer fares for low-income transit riders

Do you use the TTC’s low-income discount, the Fair Pass? Fair Pass users need to take 59 trips in a month to break even on a $129 low-income monthly pass. Yet, in 2022, the average person using the Fair Pass only took 9 trips per month on the TTC

With fare capping, transit riders on a low-income discount won’t have to pay up front for an expensive monthly pass, and could save more money while taking transit.

Fare capping in other cities

Fare capping has already been implemented in many other cities, including New York City, Edmonton, Portland, Melbourne, Los Angeles and London. In Portland, transit riders ride for free after spending $5.60 per day, and $100 per month on transit fares.

Fare capping already exists in the Greater Toronto Area as well - Hamilton, Mississauga, Brampton, Durham Region and York Region have all adopted some form of fare capping. Durham Region Transit has a monthly transit cap of $129, for example. In Hamilton, you can ride transit for free for the rest of the week after paying $29 or 11 trips.

See some of examples of fare capping in Canada:

City Monthly pass/cap Single fare cost Ride free after...
York Region Transit $160.00 $4.00 40 trips
York Region Transit (Low-income) $80.00 $2.00 40 trips
Durham Region Transit $129.60 $3.60 36 trips
Durham Region Transit (Low-income) $50.40 $3.60 14 trips
Edmonton $100.00 $2.75 36 trips

Daily fare capping:

Edmonton $10.25 $2.75 4 taps

Weekly fare capping:

Hamilton $29.70 $2.70 11 taps

Add your name to help bring fare capping to Toronto as well!

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Tell Mayor Chow and City Councillors: We want a more flexible, fairer and affordable way to pay for TTC with Fare Capping!

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