Toronto Transit Commission (TTC) Board members, transit and women's safety advocates are among those calling for the continuation and expansion of free public Wi-Fi on the TTC, after the transit network announced the service will be ending this year.
Shelagh Pizey-Allen of TTCriders joins twelve prognosticators on what a Pierre Poilievre government could mean for the city in this Toronto Life article.
"If we don’t want slow subways to become our new normal, both transit leadership and transit funding arrangements need to change."
Read the op-ed by TTCriders member Mackenzie Bartlett in the Toronto Star.
Transit advocacy group TTCriders is disappointed that the federal budget does not contain funding for new subway trains for Line 2 (Bloor-Danforth).
TTCriders told CBC: "We want clarity that force is not acceptable when someone doesn't pay their fare. We do not want force to be the response when someone does not pay $3.30."
A Toronto transit advocacy group has filed a complaint to the city's auditor general, asking her to investigate last summer's Scarborough RT derailment.
A group of transit advocates say they have lost trust in the TTC and want the circumstances around the Scarborough train derailment investigated.
A snapped switch rail. Buried reports about the Scarborough RT derailment. Shelagh Pizey-Allen with advocacy group TTCriders asks: What’s going on at the TTC?
Austin Jafri from TTCriders speaks to the Green Line about why the Scarborough busway should have had shovels in the ground in November.
In a mock awards ceremony at City Hall on Wednesday, volunteers dressed as marathon runners received medals for Toronto’s slowest bus routes among those where RapidTO improvements were promised.
Rankings included the 29 Dufferin in first place, 35 Jane in second, 60 Steeles West in third, and the 39 Finch East in fourth. The “awards ceremony” comes just a week before a report is set to be debated at the Executive Committee about Toronto’s plan to install more bus lanes.
